You know what was great about the era of CRTs? We didn't know what we were missing. If you look at almost every 70s/80s scifi movie depicting the future decades from then, and there is a computer display of some sort, it will be a CRT. Even inside vehicles.
Star Trek is the only one where I saw flat panels (LCARS terminals). AND they were touchscreens.
Absolutely useless fucking wet-noodle spined dweebs. Go fucking hand the bullies your lunch money with a smile, maybe they won't need it again tomorrow. Dipshits.
And take that goddamn hoodie off acting like you're "one of the cool kids".
I just don't get it with these proprietary cloud connected devices. Do people just not realize that keeping server infrastructure running for free after a product is sold is not in a company's best profit-seeking interests (maybe they don't even think about how things on the Internet actually work, I dunno)? I thought of this almost fifteen years ago when I started seeing smart thermostats. There should always be an option to go local, even if it requires the consumer to acquire a skillset in IT. Maybe we can start working things like that into right to repair legislation if it isn't already.
Also getting tired of people associating the word "quantum" with futuristic or extremely advanced, thinking somehow they will supercharge AI or something.
All it means is the idea that everything is discrete packets of energy, or "quanta", existing in various fields. It's a mathematical model to describe what we see. That's it.
My 30’s were an era of working very hard – and playing hard too. It’s embarrassing, though not criminal, that I probably partied, womanized, drank and smoked more than I should have earlier in life. I live a different life now.”
Yeah, at 30, I already had a wife, kid, a regular career, and was pretty much set on maintaining a stable lifestyle for the rest of my life. He must have had the mentality of a five year old at 18.
If they venture out beyond their planet, they'll start losing loved ones left and right within 10 minutes. You'd have to have no ties on your home world to become an explorer. It's like shitty relativistic time dilation, except you don't have to be anywhere near light speed to experience it. I imagine that may dissuade a lot of them from leaving.
Have they ever in recent history been successful at keeping a society exactly how it is for any length of time, or taken it back to a previous era? It just seems like they love losing and being on the wrong side of history, over and over.
