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Discomfort with modern technology shapes Gen Z's desire to live in the past (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] 90 points 6 months ago (13 children)

Tech used to promise a better life. Now it requires a subscription and wants your biometrics just to lie about pizza toppings to you. Sounds like gen z is on the right path.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    Tech is still cool, but subscriptions are not. That is why I like self hosting and open source so much.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    I feel like gen z caught the full destruction of 3rd spaces that melenials still caught the tail end of.

    I'd love a community space to share my knowledge of pre-zuck-thiel tech with. I feel like the complete destruction of 3rd spaces are part of why there is such poor knowledge xfer between z and millennials

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    it's not community spaces dude.

    it's that going out was CHEAP.

    i could go out in 2006 with my friends on a friday night for $20. hell 10 years ago i could go out for $50 or so.

    now going out on a friday night costs you closer to $200. that's not possible for a college kid, unless that college kid has mommy and daddy's credit card.

    the COL basically means unless you have lots of money, you can't ever go out anymore. a fucking movie ticket is 20-25 dollars now. I used to see movies for 3-5 bucks when I was young.

    the value of the dollar has collapsed.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Millennials caught the tail end of physical 3rd spaces, but experienced the golden age of digital third spaces. The internet until the mid 2000s was way more decentralised and chaotic.

    Instead of anonymous chatrooms and forums as digital 3rd spaces, Zoomers used less accessible proprietary options such as Discord or Twitch instead.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you have a Hacker/Makerspace near you, you might want to check that out.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago*

    the makerspaces in my city are full of trust fund elitist douchebags who who snub you if you aren't rich like them. they also charge usage fees, usually starting at 200/mo or 50/hr. they are not communal spaces for anyone to show up and hang out.

    the only place that is legit free is the library, but their makerspace is only open T-F at 10am-4pm, because it's for teenagers and retirees.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Tech has also somewhat grinded to a halt IMO. A 8GB raspberry? Not so much better than a 4GB one. ESP32 with dual core? Not so much more to do with than an ESP single core. 3D printers? More reliable. Etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    It actually has improved a lot in the past 15 years. The problem is two fault: Enshittification/price hikes and software. Software because people still use Windows, so you don't feel the improvements. And enshittification in multiple forms like you get less for more money, Raspberry Pi is a good example of that. You are better of with other brands today like BananaPi or just a mini-PC, if you are looking for a small device with some decent specs.

    Of course now we also have AI, which made it like 30x worse for every consumer, its not just GPUs or memory, its CPU, nvme storage, .. basically everything... So I really hope this AI bubble burst sooner than later now.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    My point is that you don't actually need that extra speed or ram or whatever. And my orange 1GB PI from a decade ago can do anything I want still.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It depends on your use case of course. A simple website is sufficient like you said using a orange pi. Running your own LLM model at home is not sufficient. Or compiling the Linux kernel. Or 4k gaming..

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    With the exception of LLM it's just a bit incrementally better? Like I game on full hd, I have an old pc that can compile anything (why do it on a rpi 😁?!)... A simple web page can be done on an esp, and way less if you want the hassle of course.

    I mean go ahead, but for me it's not really better enough to be worthwhile.

    And LLM hardware is way too expensive still, IMO.

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