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[Kentucky Fried Torchic]

I ordered a new phone a fee months ago and I made the salesman swear to me that it would have a way to physically plug in a pair of headphones. It's wild how technology was exactly perfect at the precise time that I was in the most formative years of my life.

[Neo Emolga]

I ordered a new phone a fee months ago and I made the salesman swear to me that it would have a way to physically plug in a pair of headphones. It's wild how technology was exactly perfect at the precise time that I was in the most formative years of my life.

Ha ha, I get that. I still remember what we had in the 80s in terms of cassette tapes and CDs. I've gotten used to using Bluetooth stuff, but certain things I haven't changed. Unlike people who use Spotify, I still like having my music on MP3 players into organized playlists. I know it's old school but it's still the way I enjoy doing things.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

No USB!? That would drive me crazy. I need like almost every USB port my computer has available.

And yeah, I have a lot of old computer games still on CD and DVD storage and I'm not even sure if they would still function on a computer running Windows 10 or 11. A few programs I had lost their capability with the newer versions of operating systems. It's a shame to see them go and have to hunt around to find replacements. I'm lucky things like Audacity could replace SoundForge but certain games end up needing to be purchased again on Steam or it just becomes entirely impossible to bring them over.

Man, if something happened to Steam, that would nuke like 99% of my gaming library. Thankfully they're still going strong even after all these years. I still remember how the platform was in the early days with Half Life 2 and Counter Strike: Source. Man, it was a whole different world back then.

I know!! It's so crazy! And it's not like there isn't space! At least my new one has a HDMI port. The amount of times I've brought my Mac home to do some work and then have to email myself stuff from another computer because I can't just plug in a USB is ridiculous! Plus I often have to give presentations at different locations and I always have to bring this little extra hub thing with a bunch of different ports to make sure I can plug in my computer :|

I still have a bunch of games on CDs too! (And floppy disks haha). I have found a few on steam (Zoombinis, Commander Keen) and it's been fun to replay them! I have no idea what is going on with windows OS these days. There are so many ads on everything though, geez!! I'm not looking forward to being forced into windows 11 with all the silly AI stuff!

I ordered a new phone a fee months ago and I made the salesman swear to me that it would have a way to physically plug in a pair of headphones. It's wild how technology was exactly perfect at the precise time that I was in the most formative years of my life.

My mum was complaining about this same thing recently. I think tech has stagnated a lot so now they keep trying to fix things that aren't broken in order to be innovative and different. I swear at least half the people I pass on my bike ride home are wearing some form of tiny Bluetooth ear pod things though so I guess it's working haha.

Ha ha, I get that. I still remember what we had in the 80s in terms of cassette tapes and CDs. I've gotten used to using Bluetooth stuff, but certain things I haven't changed. Unlike people who use Spotify, I still like having my music on MP3 players into organized playlists. I know it's old school but it's still the way I enjoy doing things.

I can't stand the ads on Spotify and I refuse to pay for it because I hate subscriptions xD So I have all my music saved on my phone and it works out well!

[Kentucky Fried Torchic]

Ha ha, I get that. I still remember what we had in the 80s in terms of cassette tapes and CDs. I've gotten used to using Bluetooth stuff, but certain things I haven't changed. Unlike people who use Spotify, I still like having my music on MP3 players into organized playlists. I know it's old school but it's still the way I enjoy doing things.

I'm also on the playlist bandwagon! I have playlists for each of my kids that have song titles whose first letters spell out their names, or a playlist of songs about frogs, or trains, or what have you. I'm sure I can find a YouTube or Spotify playlist with the same, but would they think to include the best stuff? I'm not so sure.

Once when I was in college I wrote my mom a step-by-step flowchart for how to turn on Netflix after she kept calling me for help, and I still got a call from her the Friday after I went back. It's scary to think that someday I'll probably be the same way for my kids, with them holding my hand to understand some new piece of technology.

I know!! It's so crazy! And it's not like there isn't space! At least my new one has a HDMI port. The amount of times I've brought my Mac home to do some work and then have to email myself stuff from another computer because I can't just plug in a USB is ridiculous! Plus I often have to give presentations at different locations and I always have to bring this little extra hub thing with a bunch of different ports to make sure I can plug in my computer :|

I still have a bunch of games on CDs too! (And floppy disks haha). I have found a few on steam (Zoombinis, Commander Keen) and it's been fun to replay them! I have no idea what is going on with windows OS these days. There are so many ads on everything though, geez!! I'm not looking forward to being forced into windows 11 with all the silly AI stuff!

My mum was complaining about this same thing recently. I think tech has stagnated a lot so now they keep trying to fix things that aren't broken in order to be innovative and different. I swear at least half the people I pass on my bike ride home are wearing some form of tiny Bluetooth ear pod things though so I guess it's working haha.

I can't stand the ads on Spotify and I refuse to pay for it because I hate subscriptions xD So I have all my music saved on my phone and it works out well!

I'm pretty unimpressed by AI on the whole, but the one thing that really gets under my skin is how hard it is to turn it off. I tried typing in a search engine "how many Mondays are left in 2025?" and the first thing I saw was an AI-generated answer saying "There are between 32 and 39 Mondays left in 2025!" And it even tried to include sources!

I have an Adblocker on my personal computer and phone so I don't get ads on YouTube, so when I have to pull up a video at work or on my wife's phone, it's always a rude awakening to get ads about, I don't know, Snickers or dog food out of the blue.

[Neo Emolga]

I know!! It's so crazy! And it's not like there isn't space! At least my new one has a HDMI port. The amount of times I've brought my Mac home to do some work and then have to email myself stuff from another computer because I can't just plug in a USB is ridiculous! Plus I often have to give presentations at different locations and I always have to bring this little extra hub thing with a bunch of different ports to make sure I can plug in my computer :|

I still have a bunch of games on CDs too! (And floppy disks haha). I have found a few on steam (Zoombinis, Commander Keen) and it's been fun to replay them! I have no idea what is going on with windows OS these days. There are so many ads on everything though, geez!! I'm not looking forward to being forced into windows 11 with all the silly AI stuff!

Ah yep, I know that pain. My work computer disabled using a USB port for transferring data, so if I want to send photos of work events that I took with my phone camera, I have to email them to myself! It’s pesky…

Yeah, I have no idea what to do with Windows either. I can’t upgrade to 11 and I don’t even like using Copilot, which Microsoft advertises and throws in your face everywhere for silly things that really don’t need AI support (AI support in Notepad? Why?). ChatGPT and Gemini seem superior in just about every way and even then I just use those to goof off or to put AI to the test to see if it can actually do something well or completely goof up so I can show others how badly it goofed to laugh at it.

I'm also on the playlist bandwagon! I have playlists for each of my kids that have song titles whose first letters spell out their names, or a playlist of songs about frogs, or trains, or what have you. I'm sure I can find a YouTube or Spotify playlist with the same, but would they think to include the best stuff? I'm not so sure.

Once when I was in college I wrote my mom a step-by-step flowchart for how to turn on Netflix after she kept calling me for help, and I still got a call from her the Friday after I went back. It's scary to think that someday I'll probably be the same way for my kids, with them holding my hand to understand some new piece of technology.

That’s the thing, I’m also very selective and quite of bit of the music I like to play isn’t commercially published, such as video game song remixes and other obscure songs from sources long-ago that may not even be found online anymore.

And ugh, the ads. If YouTube played an ad or two at the beginning of the video and that was it, I wouldn’t have a problem with it, but every five minutes is way too disruptive to take. And that’s the problem with ads in games, on sites, and just about everywhere. Originally, they were off to the side and they weren’t in your face. Now, forget it, they’re slathered over everything, imbedded into the content where they shouldn’t be, pop up constantly and all over the place like a collage, interrupt whatever you were doing, and they play noise and distract to the point where you have to go full scorched earth on it and get uBlock Origin or some other “annihilate everything” ad blocker because it’s just too disruptive.

And yeah, I don’t like this “pay for premium” thing either. It’s like folding and paying a ransom after getting blackmailed by having to pay for the solution to the same entity that hits you with the problem. And $13.99 a month just seems like a lot to me. That’s $167.88 a year. I can think of many better ways to spend money like that.