It's not "brain melting". Even watching the internet go from "this is super neat, and way cool" (For nerds) to "Well, it's ALL going through enshittification now" wasn't "brain melting", it's just what happens under capitalism.
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Nobody is expected to understand crypto. Same with the stock market and generally the economy. If it was simple and see thru you couldnβt run this many scams.
Goddamn I'm not that elder! But also true
I understand crypto... and it is utter shit.
People used to enjoy anime and MST3k episodes on fifth generation VHS copies. Crypto is worse than that.
You know why vhs quality degraded with every generation of copy? It wasn't an accident or a technical problem, it was deliberate.
They want to discourge people from copying their tapes, so there was a mechanism in the VCR to actually cause some drop in quality when you taped something.
This is why TV tapings of a movie would never be as good as buying/renting the same movie from a store. Even if you used a virgin tape.
No, it was really a technical issue. Analog signals are very prone to noise, and noise is cumulative. Even the best recording heads are going to pick up stray magnetic fields, and of course you get the typical cosmic ray noise hitting the recording tape and head, and then there's noise in power lines that also contribute to the noise.
Basically, what you don't get to hear anymore causes it: Tune an older radio to somewhere between stations. The static exists all the time. If it didn't, it would just be no noise at all, rather than static. Same with older, analog TVs: You see snow and hear static. That's all environmental noise, which will impact analog recording medium. Even the source side of the house gets that noise introduced. That's what Signal-to-noise ratio means: How much signal, vs how much noise exists.
So, dupe of a dupe of a dupe... All recording noise.
However the original quality was so shit you don't really notice.
Prior to true HD home media we really didn't know any better. I grew up in Dubai and the Disney Aladdin film was actually banned there, but not before some pirated copies came out. That pirated tape was really poor quality but I didn't notice or care. Seeing the 1080p, however, totally blew my mind.
MST3K was great, and anime is good.
1990 time for Guru
i remember standing in line for dvds. we were hacking regionlocked discs before nft was just a scammer's wet dream. we were moulded by early modern technology.
Crypto? Yes, I know what a pyrimid scheme is.
Who is expecting them to understand cryptography?
A yes the RS encryption, public key, private key ...
I vaguely remember
- Fuck you
- Who the fuck do you think you are?
- crypto is a fucking scam
Crypto isn't a scam. It's a fantastic way to protect yourself online and HTTPS has been a game changer. Crypto currency is a scam though.
So people who 35years old are elder now.
Get back in the lounger grandpa
I'm 37, I'm not old!
Yes.
Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?
By someone old enough to not just be a dad, but identify so much that it's their username. Fuck this kid. I'm not old. Just getting fat, bald, slow, dumb.. oh wait.. maybe they're into something π₯Ή π
Your elders refers to people older than you, not necessarily elderly people
Dispense your wisdom, o my elder. I'm just a nineties boy, what do I know of the world before ?
I was born i 85. Not much more wisdom I can give I'm afraid. I am a tech early adopter and a coder so I understand crypto it's just too volatile a market for me to care about. Wish I had invested in Bitcoin when someone asked me if I wanted to in 2012 though. Mostly my driving force for new tech adoption was my gaming habit. I had a colecovision, NES, Genesis, Playstation, Playstation 2, and all the systems from the next gen onward once I had job money.
Fr. I just turned 40. Give me my senior discount card.
Yeha I turn 40 at the end of the year. Over the hill buddies.
The shift was 9/11 happening and everything that happened after.
For the US maybe. For my area it was the Russians finally going home and now they want to come back
Before 1990?β¦ fuck you.. I have kids born before 1990β¦ elder my ass β¦ I probably understand crypto better than you doβ¦
Iβm not bitter. Not at all.
...Dad? Haha I'm about to hit 40 and shitcoins are my brainy boomer dad's hobby.
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To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.
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I got to be alive before mobile phones and social media.
Worth it!
I am immeasurably grateful that the entirety of my youth is not on record.
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I seriously wonder how much brain damage I avoided by squeaking in my teenage years before the invention of smart phones.
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SMH. Dear boy. We elders were taking it to the streets in the 60βs and 70βsβin huge numbers. We organized without social media, were willing to face danger and arrest, and got shit done. We were using DOS before you were probably even born (do you know what that is?). While many of us are, in fact, fading, there are legions of us with knowledge and experience you will never understand until YOU are an elder.
I feel like its an advantage to know the analog way to do things in addition to the current norms. For example, navigating by paper map and direction of the sun, like some kind of land pirate.
I understand that crypto is a scam that will rob millions of people of money they desperately need.
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FUCK YOU! I understand crypto and STILL have a VHS tape I never returned. pfft. arrogant youth. now where do i push to send this to reddit?
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