I like how they call everything conspiracy theories these days. Yeah, nothing to see here, just wanna protect children… :)

Comes back again and again.

Yeah most people dont have the energy for those things, but its by design. Work and family takes all your energy. And then they want you to watch tv so you can get served ads, or watch news so you feel small and afraid.

I still dont stream. I buy big hard drives and full them with stuff. :)

First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.

Why do i always gets so extreamly nostalgic every time something from the 80s and 90s are posted… I guess everyone is like that, stuff from their childhood remains loved.

I think also because it was a fresh field, nobody knew IT so it was exciting. It was like a small interest, similar to collecting stamps or something.

Nobody wants to work ~~for these salaries ~~

I think the real shock is the quality of windows and Microsoft, and the pc laptop industry also… When everything about a pc laptop is worse than a mac laptop, why do we expect?

It really is like no pc laptop manifacturer has pride in what they create anymore. They dont care if its a bad screen, shitty keyboard, horrible battery time. Just get it on market so the people can buy, and pay reviewers for good reviews.

Maybe not, but it will confidently say it knows exactly what happened.

Back when girls in Hollywood were actually beautiful. :)

I would be scared as hell to rely on Google like that. You are one automated Ai decision away from losing access.

At least move your mail to a proper company. Jesus.

You can quickly try on YouTube - search for something like miami vice and watch a few seconds of a video. Then go back to your feed. Observe how it now has lots of related content.

These days it takes just seconds for the entire feed to change to your choices. So even if you are just a little curious about something, like flat earth, you will start to get that kind of content within seconds. So people get pulled into filter bubbles without even noticing.

Ive learned that people have totally different opinions about what is a good tv show… So not surprised some people dont like this. To me its the best tv show ever made, along with Better Call Saul.

But some people like Star Trek Academy better, and thats shocking to me, but true and funny. :)

I think age and gender plays a big role in what people like also.

American leadership - they hate our freedom

Americans - wonder if I can afford food this month

Also, what western imperialism? Its literally only USA acting like this.

I think its very different, because the algorithms are feeding you things you emotionally react to. Also i bet it changes your entire view of things very much. You dont have things like gender wars on tv very much, but its all over social media. I think it affects how young people think more than anything. Much more than tv.

You can look at the Lemmy front page also and see common themes, and over time, all this affects how young people think about themselves, politics, sex, anything really.

I dont think tv is even remotely affecting people in the same way as social media… Specially when you are young, it can affect you extreamly much. Because that need to fit in is super strong.

I grew up in the 90s and I was watching tv, so I know it didnt affect me at all as much as todays social media. But thats me, just one person. Perhaps its not the same for everyone, so this is just my opinion.

Its getting kind of silly to be afraid of China when big tech is American… There really isnt any logical reason at this point. Just emotional, because people are afraid of China.

The entire west is getting absolutely wrecked by American big tech so its funny to read those articles about how scary China is. I guess we prefer the devil we know, but I dont think China has anything even remotely as capable as American spy agencies and big tech.

I think they mean Google play services yeah. When i was running cyanogenmod on my phone, I had the option to not install Googles play services.

Some apps rely on that being installed but most worked fine without it.

I had an icq number in the 184000 range. :) Bragging rights!

Every time this topic comes up, I feel very nostalgic. Of course the tech was not as good, but the internet was free of big tech.

I was using netscape as my first web browser.

I have the M50 and its also still working, no problems. Also test winner in audio tests.

I bet people will just accept it and not even think twice about it.

Pretty sure Trump is not dumb. He is an awful human being but not dumb. He knows where this is going and he is fine with it.