We’re kinda on social media here, so deeper comments might be out of place 😁

I admit, i absolutely love my phone too and don’t go a meter without it with me. But it’s literally the device i couldn’t even fully dream about 30yrs ago. A tiny fraction of this marvel was in my wettest nerd-dreams. And no day passes where i wouldn’t be aware of that. Yet, beside using lemmy, i never used any social media at all. I don’t even consume Youtube or netflix or whatever.

This massively shrunken attention-span is really noticeable. Not only when seeing youngsters scroll through tons of content, deciding in an instant if this minute that “article” takes, is even worth stop scrolling. It’s palpable in the way it all is made/presented. Videos instantly starting so you might get a hint of interest before scrolling further. It’s horrible, from design to execution to content itself. And yes, all is just built around selling us shit or sell us to shit.

THIS is not the net i dreamt about and was part of its creation. This is the net that’s ripe for euthanasia and a new start. Why does everything has to turn to shit when it hits mainstream? (rethorical question sadly)

Oh yeah your group sounds totally rad. And your thought of exchanging good food for the hassles of travel is just totally adorable. I know meetup, yet it’s not that filled up here (krautland), it’s probably way more valid in the US (i just assume you’re from there). Besides I’ve grown way too anti-social to even consider trying it. So it’s just a regret that i never did this in my life when i was more social.

Yes, you’re right and summed it up well. This indeed is a big difference with newspapers & co and social media. I myself have found me in this scroll-trap. It’s just this one more entry… Yet the difference between tv and social media is not the same. You can slowly wither in front of the tv too. I grew up with just 3 stations but even then you could mindlessly consum forever. Stopped tv totally when i was 20 or so and never had one again.

As with the phones, that might surely vary. I personally don’t know, mine is totally silent, only wifey can ring me, the rest of the world can write me a mail or use telegram. But i know a lot of people, from poor to immensly rich, which are constantly interrupted by their phone. Call here, message there, notification in the middle. It always seems like they’re total slaves to their devices and are “pavloved” to the ding.

But ofc this is equally just anectodal “evidence”. But it’s a possbility which, back then, wasn’t there. If you left work, you were gone. Today boss could reach you anytime.

I’m retired since forever now, but sometimes just worked for fun some months and already noticed how pissed some bosses are when you’re not 24/7 commited and always there in an “emergency”. Maybe that’s a german thing, i dunno.

Unrelated but: i envy your rpg-group. I never in my life happened to stumble upon enough nerds to actually do that. But always wanted 😊

Eweka. Not only the biggest backbone (afaik) but they also regularly have a supercheap offer like 2.50 with vpn and all. Speed is constant with only very rare occasions where it gets down to “just” 100mbit or so. 50 concurrent connections.

Indexers i tried many, but got stuck with geeknews. Would say i find 99% of what i search there. Price is 12 bucks per annum i think. With even a free tier. I don’t even know the name of the other two as i never need to use them, they’re just backups now and i will cancel them

Aye, it was originally (and still is) just a gargantuan forum which has no owner and is federated. It also has binary groups, which are “abused” by pir8s since forever. Dmcas happen sometimes, but not that often.

I somewhere commented a full how-to for a comfortable *arr-setup. But the most simple way is just using some newsreader.

While you’re kinda right , you’re also kinda wrong. Today we sure have the knowledge of the world at our fingertips, even for free (mostly). Back then everythink required way more effort. But we also had way more time to do so. People didn’t need to have two incomes or two jobs. When they were home, they were home. No 24/7 availability due to a phone.

But what did we do with the time? Reading tabloids and watching silly tv. Like people today scroll through social media. I’d argue it’s still the same, just the ways of ditching information changed. Gen z and younger aren’t per se dumber than boomers and older. The ways to get dumber or smarter just shifted.

Gen X myself, with always way too much spare time at hands to make observations and conclusions and gather information/knowledge. Which is also more easily done today than ever.

“unreasonable amount”… Yeah i see that 😁 But i also understand how much the bothering can accumulate… Especially if it’s not even your choice but theirs.

Have u maybe tried the stupid solution inbetween? Usb-c-to-jack-adapter? It’s kinda like before just with stupid adapters dangling about…

I know, i know. But of all the misogynistic, supressive silly retrograde murder-cults, those are the least misogynistic, supressive silly retrograde murder-cults. At least they have some actual wisdom to share, not stories about a whole incest-species with a base-gene-pool of an estimated two people of which one even was made out of the first one.

Long story short: Yes. Fuck them too. Just a lil less.

Oh yes, the sdcard. How i hated how they just removed it. To me it was super important. Save pictures there, everything personal there and only keep the pure apps on the phone itself. If the phone breaks or the screen, pull out the card and send the phone in. But now? I need to backup everything to the cloud (selfhosted ofc) and instantly wipe it from the device. Absolutely stupid. AFAIK Sony still has them, so I think whenever my pixel breaks (3rd year now) I’ll try a non googly one maybe.

Yeah the 3.5mm jack sucks equally, but at least that didn’t phase me as much. For that little where i would use headphones with my phone bluetooth does its job, for everything else i prefer my audiophile set at home. But yeah, if you use it more often and are picky, bluetooth just sucks. Would prefer card+jack over any stupid selfie-cam. Thanks crapple for always paving the way of stupidity and samsung bootlicking it. And then everyone else :(

The difference when a cult grounds on logic and reasoning instead of on an ancient high-fantasy-book which makes no sense from beginning to end. But was probably a cool read some centuries ago. Still, admittedly, the greatest way to control the sheeples and keep them in line.

If I’d be forced at gunpoint to choose a religion, I’d pick them. Or buddhists.

Your nick is pure poetry. I stand here in admiration.

I had their flagship selected as my favorite, yet decided for an inferior pixel to just don’t have to worry anymore if shit is broken with the next update again. But as another poster reminded me of, since magisk it got a lot easier. Having the BL unlocked tho. So my rant probably was tok aged. Like me 😁

I do the magisk way. But yes, you’re right of course. Unlocking hence means root. At least since magisk. As said my last experiences with non-pixels is a while ago, but it surely had a reason to go to the devil to un-devil it. And at that point some rooted xiaomi et al wouldn’t help anyway.

Ich nicht. Ich bin durch und durch ein schlechter Mensch.

Besides it being around since forever and predecessing all forums and reddit etc.

It’s main selling points for pir8s are:

• max speed (depending on your uplink and your provider ofc. E.g. I get a solid 120mb/s)
• up to maaany years retention (how old the stuff you want could be. Depends on provider ofc. Currently 11yrs from the top of my head)
• no need to upload or be member of trackers to get the GOOD stuff. It’s all the same to everyone.
• it’s still not really mainstream (luckily) and hence less dmcas

Downsides compared to torrents?

• in theory torrents can be as old as torrent itself. In reality torrents die quickly.
• no social component like if you’re really engaged in some private tracker
• to have it efficiently you’d either one or more indexers (like search-engines). There are free ones but they suck. And/or forums. As much stuff is encrypted/obfuscated for obvious reasons.

Overall I’m a cheapskate and pay like 2€/month for unlimited usenet with maximum retention and 50 connection on the best backbone plus 2x 10-12€ a year for indexers. But one totally would be sufficient.

In the end, we enter a movie/series-name, pick the right one from the results, wait a bit for the download and sorting to happen, then watch it in emby comfortably. The comfortable kind of piracy i dreamt of for nearly 3 decades 😊

Das passiert mir auch jedes Mal wenn ich “afd ortsverband mit onlinecasino” suche.

Verdammtes Internetz.

What about, and hear me out here:

Watch what you want, like what you enjoy. Just ignore ads, marketing or propaganda of any kind.

I would not boycott a product because it’s woke or not woke or blatant propaganda, but because it’s shit. What product is not, on some level, propaganda?

Shame upon myself. 50tb this year DL, 0 UL. But hey, it’s usenet, so that’s perfectly fibe 😁

Hehe, yeah tapes had their up 'n downs. But for an impatient dude like me, they were infuriating… Still lightyears ahead of typing in hex-data from hundreds of pages in magazines for weeks, just to end up with a mildly working version of snake.

And nowadays a cheap phone is a gazillion times more powerful in every possible aspect. Never even dreamed that big and here we are.

Never had a oneplus or nothing, so can’t judge at all. But great they’re allowing it.

Don’t remember sony being cool about it. But also good to know they seem to have changed their stance, i always liked their phones hardware-wise.

But ok, phone market is full of phones, and i gave up on non-pixels a long while ago. Cool to hear they mostly are simpler now.

But besides, being able to unlock bootloader is great (even though root is way more important to me), but if there is no really well working daily-driver-alternative to truly de-google (or at least working googled roms), what’s the point to unlock other than making your own rom?

Last time i checked, yes. Not worth the trouble. Would just be one game (zelda) I’d play and then i would suck too hard with the controllers 😁

Can’t speak for the other consoles. The only one i personally owned was an atari 2600 😌