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[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.