I’m kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It’s just not fun anymore. I know I’m probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.
I know it’s more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.
You literally are walking around with a supercomputer in your pocket, with the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips in a moment’s notice.
Stop expecting that you need to buy every shit new product, and literally just stop. Tech is fine, it’s the people who constantly get roped into ‘fashion tech’ that are the problem. Buying a new phone because if you don’t you won’t look cool, etc.
I got an Android phone from 2018, and it still works as good as ever. I still play modern games on a desktop PC, and uBlock Origin/Firefox means I never see a single ad. I don’t use applications with ads. You shouldn’t either. Start focusing on swapping yourself over to F/OSS stuff, and this world you’re so frustrated over – it goes away. Just stop consuming everything.
That’s grossly overselling the Internet. Unless what you want to know is either in vogue, or makes someone money, there’s a solid chance you won’t be able to find any good information on it.
And speaking as someone who very specifically does NOT want the newest things, they try very damn hard to force it by constantly updating standards so older tech is no longer compatible/usable (2018 is not at all old in my books).
Wikipedia would be a good example against you argument. I can find out details of the reign of Caesar Augustus as well as how many valence electrons are on a carbon atom. Neither of those is in vogue nor particular money makers and I know exactly where to find the info just by searching Wikipediea. Additionally, all the sources are linked so I can go down a rabbit hole on any deeper version of the topic if I want.
You listed one of the most popular historical figures, by far, and some physics/chemistry, which I can assure you is involved in making enormous amounts of money, as someone in the nanotechnology field.
Try finding actually legitimate information regarding Tartaria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarian_Empire
7 sources for further reading in that article, too.
Like I said, try finding actually good information on the real thing, not just ‘debunking’ a bunch of obvious bullshit. People wrote about it as fact before 1911ish, yet it’s almost impossible to find any of that ‘human knowledge’ anywhere online.
I agree with both of y’all here
Wikipedia is great and it operates exactly like an encyclopedia of olde, surface level info, maybe with a leak under the covers.
But ultimately you’re right. Tech is so much further ahead than is publicly available or even shared. Every advancement is hidden behind ivory doors or paywalls and rarely makes its way out. Beyond that, way way way too much disinformation is out across from authorities to protect the interests of business, at our expense.
I can’t square gatekeeping information with ethics. Imo it’s a betrayal of ancestors and the catalogue of knowledge we all should have inherited equally. Newton didn’t invent calculus, he was the first to uncover it (arguably). It was always there. Should those who enlighten the rest of us be compensated? Absolutely. But there’s no justification for the dragonhorde levels of depravity we exalt currently.
The supercomputers in our pockets, business has stolen all the gains from. My phone doesn’t feel any faster than it did in 2012, except YouTube clearly is paying for privilege after the death of net neutrality. All the extra transistors, all the extra gigs, all the extra processing power feels like it’s all been lost to telemetry - and I find that as infuriating as the idea of a subscription economy. Like others have echoed on this thread, I’m now years deep in degrowth, the open source movements (like reverse engineering pharmaceuticals) and anti-consumerism.
Be the change you want to see. If you can’t live it, why should anyone else?