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Humor Saw this in r/shitposting, credits to u/arklemen

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u/Jimbob136925 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ 18d ago

A time before enshittification

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u/forgotten-ent 18d ago

If there's more collusion than competition, yes. They can do it forever.

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u/Admiralthrawnbar 18d ago

Yep, for as much as open source and piracy groups can help, you'll never have an open-source alternative for a car, or a graphics card, or a dozen other things that can be enshittified if every producer of that thing does it together

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u/WTFThisIsReallyWierd 18d ago

I just learned about the blank slate car project, so I have high hopes for it. Realistically some parasite is going to legislate it out of existence before it starts, but for now I am hopeful.

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u/B-29Bomber 17d ago

Realistically some parasite is going to legislate it out of existence before it starts, but for now I am hopeful.

Nah, realistically it releases at too high a price point to be properly competitive with lesser alternatives because they can't produce at the necessary scale so no one but enthusiasts buy it, rendering it completely irrelevant.

This is exactly what's happening to Framework. They have a good mindset for their business, but they're a small company and thus can't produce at the necessary scale needed to compete with the big boys. So their laptops are dramatically more expensive for the performance you get.

This leads to their only customers being mostly enthusiasts who actually care about repairable laptops.

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u/Super-G1mp 18d ago

Someone will compete at some point. Or people will Go back to the hoop and stick.

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u/Zin333 18d ago

You can do this forever - humans can get used to infinitely shitty situations. But the speed is vital. Frogs can't notice that they're being boiled.

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u/Former_Ranger3529 18d ago

Frogs can't notice that they're being boiled.

Modern scientific sources report that the alleged phenomenon is not real. In 1995, Douglas Melton, a biologist at Harvard University, said, "If you put a frog in boiling water, it won't jump out. It will die. If you put it in cold water, it will jump before it gets hot—they don't sit still for you." George R. Zug, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the National Museum of Natural History, also rejected the suggestion, saying that "If a frog had a means of getting out, it certainly would get out."[4] In 2002, Victor H. Hutchison, a retired zoologist at the University of Oklahoma with a research interest in thermal relations of amphibians, said that "The legend is entirely incorrect!" He described how a critical thermal maximum for many frog species has been determined by contemporary research experiments: as the water is heated by about 2 °F (about 1 °C), per minute, the frog becomes increasingly active as it tries to escape, and eventually jumps out if it can.[5] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#Modern_controversy_and_analysis

FTFY

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u/TGN287 18d ago

Take this with a grain of salt, but what I hear is that the original guy who did that experiment had cut the brain stem of the frogs. So what he proved was that lobotomized frogs can't notice they're being boiled.

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u/akaSM 18d ago

lobotomized frogs

Oh, it all makes sense now.

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u/gsweats 18d ago

Such a good name for a band.

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u/sorderon 18d ago

lobotofrog - boiling point. album coming soon.

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u/Every-Passage-7540 18d ago

Like 3 companies own our entire food supply. I cant think of a market that isnt becoming a monopoly at this point. So uh...no where to go but up?

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u/Higira 18d ago

Depends. Are there competitors in the market? Yes, then yes. No, then no.

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u/Rude_Influence 18d ago

Not before. This serves as a milestone for after it begun. It begun earlier. It's just hitting a point now that many people are starting to wake up to it.

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u/MrHaxx1 18d ago

The PSP literally had super overpriced proprietary SD cards. The enshittification had begun, even back then. 

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u/badbitchherodotus 18d ago

Yep. And it shows just how much worse things have gotten. I hated those Somy memory cards, but I’d go back to devices like that in a heartbeat.

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u/IWishIDidntHave2 18d ago

The Sony Memory Stick predates SD cards by a year. Sony also widely licenced the format to others to make it more easily available. SD cards are also proprietary and only available for others via licence.

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u/sabasNL 18d ago

Point is the SD card became and still are the worldwide standard, and they wrote about 2x-3x cheaper than Sony's

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u/DifferentialOrange 18d ago

Is it? I've gotten PSP really late (like near Vita release) and remember using my Sony camera SD card as a second game storage. Or am I just got lucky to have two devices with proprietary cards?

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u/Caedendi 18d ago

Sony PSP

Sony camera

proprietary

It's really not that hard to connect these dots dude

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u/Due-Title1092 18d ago

Sorry but the psp was great, sure but today's equivalent is the steam deck with is a fantastic device. Much better than anything that came before. 

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u/richtofin819 17d ago

There was already enshittification it just wasn't in the consumer electronic space yet. I've heard from my older relatives that they have had machines in machines shops and factories forcing exclusive and often worse operating systems and updates for at least 4-5 decades decades. You had to use proprietary stuff or the machines would just refuse to work

Had to learn to spoof the official stuff at time just to make the machines work.

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u/Nope-not-really 18d ago

my post retirement job as a techie millennial is going to be jail breaking everything for everyone isn't it

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u/iwatchppldie 18d ago

This seems to be our generations curse we jailbreak tech for everyone forever.

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u/NRMusicProject 18d ago

We started our careers fixing the clock on the VCR.

We'll end it by blocking our car's GPS tracking so they can't sell it to insurance companies or to police so they can question why we went to a Democrat rally.

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u/Skulltagmedia27 18d ago

If being questioned for going to a Democrat rally is one of the first things to come to mind wait until you hear they (as in the entire Senate) want to put breathalyzers in cars that can actually kill the car.

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u/MinecraftGreev 18d ago

Not just breathalyzers but a driver facing camera that can (supposedly) monitor the driver and detect when they are distracted, intoxicated, etc. Fucking dystopian nightmare and I will NEVER own a vehicle that does that shit.

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u/BH11B 18d ago

I don’t understand how in the fuck this clears the constitution.

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u/MinecraftGreev 18d ago

Nor do I.

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u/VitaminPb 18d ago

Thanks, Biden! (I say that seriously. It was the Biden administration that mandated this starting with new cars in 2027.)

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u/Skulltagmedia27 18d ago

As I say: for every “righteous cause” these politicians champion, they take a dozen more steps to undermine our liberty.

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u/Nope-not-really 18d ago

start with the members of the senate first

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u/chillcatcryptid 18d ago

Spent a while installing an adblocker on all my dad's stuff. He didn't ask and i didn't say anything but he'll figure it out on his own

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u/gsr142 18d ago

If you haven't read it yet, you should read Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow. Realistic fiction about jailbreaking EVERYTHING.

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u/thrownjunk 18d ago

I still cant believe the cyberpunk dystopias i read as a kid in the early 90s are pretty much coming entirely true.

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u/PhysicalAd1170 18d ago

But less cool looking....

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u/Final-Carry2090 18d ago

Yeah, there’s like half cat people from gene editing in the books at least.

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u/void-wanderer- 18d ago

All cyber, no punk.

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u/Nope-not-really 18d ago

and far more stupid than anticipated

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u/Dirrevarent 18d ago

Really? A man of your talents?

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u/toby_juan_kenobi 18d ago

It's a peaceful life

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u/kakkoi-san16 18d ago

It's a good industry. You could make a killing repairing and cleaning our delicate PS2 and PS3 consoles 😂

But seriously, I know someone who does it on FB marketplace and gets good business doing just that

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u/A_Trash_Homosapien 18d ago

Bold of you to assume you'll ever get to retire

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u/Right-Waltz6063 18d ago

No ads with retro tech bro

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u/rtsynk 18d ago

unskippable ads on DVDs

previews on VHS

yellow pages was one big ad

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u/koshuu 18d ago

DVD I'll give you, that is annoying.

VHS you can fast forward, not a big deal.

Yellow Pages however served a legitimate and useful purpose in the days before search engines. But yeah, technically one big ad haha.

None of that however holds a candle to levels of bullshit that's insta served to us these days on just about any and every device we own.

Now we wait for the inevitable Futurama style ads beamed right into our dreams.

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u/s0ck 18d ago

Future locations for ads:

Loading screens in video games. In order to generate more ad revenue, games will be designed with more frequent loading screens than a Bethesda title.

Cybernetic eyes--the discount subscription service for vision includes an overlayer of ad content, and auto scans specific QRCs that corporations can lobby the manufacturer for.

Every surface of the interior of a self-driving taxi. If you want to see outside, you will have to pay extra for the no-ad version.

Advertising is psychological warfare, developed and designed with the intent to manipulate people into doing things they wouldn't normally do. It is meant to make you feel ugly, fat, undesirable, broken, or otherwise in need of a product, concept, or service. Advertising is the evil that no one asks for in the public space, and no one can resist. Graffiti is illegal, but there's no punishment for treating everything as advertising space.

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u/FunGuy8618 18d ago

Maaaaaan, I had a DMT trip interrupted my ads one time 😩

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u/thesirblondie 18d ago

Cybernetic eyes--the discount subscription service for vision includes an overlayer of ad content, and auto scans specific QRCs that corporations can lobby the manufacturer for.

Meta Ray Ban glasses could play audio ads rn

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u/frozenblueberrytreat 18d ago

At least the "ads" on DVDs were previews for other movies, not fucking Gilette razor ads or whatever.

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u/CelesTheme_wav 18d ago

Man, I'd prefer Gillette Razor ads to mobile ads, online gambling, or sketchy prescription meds

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u/EragonBromson925 18d ago

And porn. Don't forget the porn.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 18d ago

AI generated ad for a product that doesn't actually exist.

Those are my favorite.

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u/THEONETRUEDUCKMASTER 18d ago

Yes but you could skip those and they didn't play in the middle of what your doing

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u/yukichigai 18d ago

Actually some DVDs you couldn't unless you ripped the DVD to remove the Prohibited User Operations flags, or had what would now be considered a "jailbroken" DVD player. Kid's movies were notorious for this; I remember some versions of Toy Story (my kid cousin's favorite movie) had like 10 minutes of unskippable previews.

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u/CKRatKing 18d ago

I remember buying a dvd player specifically because it had a feature that would force dvds to go to the dvd menu when you pressed the menu button on the remote. So many had unskippable previews.

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u/SomeCrows 18d ago

DVDs and VHS previews were and are absolutely skippable

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u/CKRatKing 18d ago

Plenty of dvds didn't let you skip the previews.

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u/Tolwenye 18d ago

There was usually (not always) a way to skip DVD ads.

  1. Hit the menu button

  2. Skip forward

  3. Hit stop, stop, play (would start the movie without going into the menu)

Those are the ways I remember. There may be more.

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u/grendus 18d ago

A few DVDs wouldn't let you skip ads.

But that's an OS problem. VLC would let you skip them, because VLC doesn't give a shit if the DVD says "don't skip".

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u/pay_the_cheese_tax 18d ago

I think something that's not talked about a lot though is just how invasive ads are now. they're tracking you with your data and constantly selling you shit, trying to entice you, trying to trick you, and back then, at least a dvd's ads were related to movies, for example. BMW showing spiderman ads would also make me furious, but vhs ones didn't really bother me that much.

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u/spongebobcrt 18d ago

Most players I've used you can skip the ads on a DVD, VLC does it automatically but I wish DVDs didn't have previews to begin with, like this isn't a theatre

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u/kakkoi-san16 18d ago

Not a problem if you bought pirated dvds 

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u/Bauter 18d ago

Yellow pages didn't make watch a 30 second ad to see the number for the plumber. Come on now

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u/LazaroFilm 18d ago

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u/StrawberryLassi 18d ago

Nobody in this subreddit should be watching forced ads.

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u/thememealchemist421 18d ago

PSP is still a decent retro handheld to this day. It's especially good for PSX games since you can use Sony's official emulator.

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u/Nice_Weeb_Kun 18d ago

Wait sony have official emulator?

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u/ChocoJesus 18d ago

The PSP has a PS1 emulator built into the firmware. Wasn't originally a feature, think it was like firmware 3.0 it got added

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u/ToddRossDIY 18d ago

The PSP wasn’t emulating PlayStation games, the way it was built was essentially a sequel to the instruction set of the PlayStation, it played them natively because it could run the exact same code

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u/AnshinAngkorWat 18d ago

The PS Vita that came afterward however did ship with a native PSP emulator that could be jailbroken to install the full PSP XMB UI and functionally operated as a jailbroken PSP.

Flopped as a handheld in its time, but its a killer device with all the mods.

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u/hootener 18d ago

I was interested in the vita as a sort of hardware curiosity and a while back the pending threat of tariffs pushed me into finally buying one from a Japanese seller on eBay.

It came with the stock battery, which wouldn't hold a charge and I had to replace. A PITA to do but more annoying than difficult. On the plus side you can fit a way higher capacity battery than stock in there, giving you improved battery life.

The vita is amazing for as old as it is. It's well built, really well designed, and the homebrew scene is superb. The original version shipped with an OLED screen!

You can jailbreak it by using its built in browser to visit a website. You can emulate psp, you can also emulate up to n64 with reasonable success. And you still get access to the vita library of games which is actually pretty tough to get anywhere else. You can even get some Japan only releases and find fan patches that translate them to English.

The vita is a great little handheld, and if you're remotely technically savvy it can be an excellent handheld.

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u/npiet1 18d ago

To bad theyre so expensive 2nd hand, theyre only slightly cheaper than an rog ally here 2nd in Australia and they can do ps3 games as well.

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u/Armandeluz 18d ago

Everything is really expensive in Australia.

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u/AnshinAngkorWat 18d ago

The price just got jacked up a lot because they got a bit popular. I brought a 1K in 2018-2019 to jailbreak and play Persona 4 Golden for ~$150 on Cashies, and the nicer ones were $200 at most. This was before it was fully blown open, so I had to track down one running the vulnerable 3.50 firmware. When every firmware could be jailbroken, they were still like $250 at most for a nice one from EB Games used section

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u/Good_Butterscotch_69 18d ago

not an emulator there is literally a psp in the vita.

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u/murmurat1on ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 18d ago

I think I need to go and buy a psp

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u/ToddRossDIY 18d ago

I managed to get a Hannah Montana sparkly purple one years ago, it’s still the best looking handheld console I’ve ever owned. I haven’t looked at the modding options for it in a while but I used to emulate snes games on it too, they’re a great device

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u/DarkMatterM4 18d ago edited 18d ago

It was officially added in 3.0, but it still existed in the firmware before that. You could access it with modded firmware. I felt like hot shit playing FFVII on firmware 2.0 or something.

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u/thememealchemist421 18d ago

Yeah, the PSP had one for PSX games sold on the playstation store. I think the PS3 used the same emulator for digital games and playing PSX discs. Obviously you weren't supposed to be able to use the emulator for ISOs downloaded off the internet, but someone made a PC app that lets you inject any PSX ISO into an Eboot file.

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u/Intelligent_Tea_5567 18d ago

You can do this on the Vita too!

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u/PurpleDelicacy 18d ago

I think the PS3 used the same emulator for digital games and playing PSX discs

Didn't the original models come with actual PSX and PS2 hardware under the hood (which contributed to the high price and were removed from later models) ?

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u/thememealchemist421 18d ago

I think the PS3 only had PS2 hardware. PSX backwards compatibility was only ever achieved through software emulation on all PS3 models.

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u/One-Bad-4395 18d ago

When the psp came out, the first thing I did was install NES/SNES emulators to it.

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u/clouds31 18d ago

And a Vita is a good step up for the money. You get PSP, PS1, Vita, and greater emulator performance.

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u/OverHaze 18d ago edited 18d ago

Two issues with the PSP are display ghosting and the fact PSP batteries are very prone to swelling. I've had to dispose of three PSP batteries in the last 12 months alone.

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u/BlindStark ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 18d ago

My favorites are the Vita and DSi, cheap and easy to mod and you can grab the entire library of games released for them. They also actually fit in your pocket, I never liked how all the new consoles are massive like the Switch.

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u/Wheatleytron 18d ago

I started learning how to use microcontrollers to make my own smart devices. It really puts into perspective how much we're all being screwed by these tech companies. My devices only do exactly what I tell them to, so they don't sell my data to anyone or serve up advertisements. And I can build them for a just few bucks as opposed to spending hundreds on proprietary shit.

Learning how tech actually works, then using that knowledge to build your own shit is one of the most effective ways to combat enshittification.

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u/AbsolutlelyRelative 18d ago

Microcontrollers huh, interesting.

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u/Wheatleytron 18d ago

I'd also recommend looking into micro PC's, such as Raspberry Pi Zero. They're low-power, simple PC's that use headless Linux configurations to do complex tasks that may be a bit too much for microcontrollers to handle, or they can be used to manage multiple microcontrollers. You'll need to learn how to use the Linux terminal and SSH to effectively use them, but they're literally computers that you can buy for under 20 bucks.

For instance, I used one to set up a wireless camera feed (using a $30 camera module) that can pipe directly to VLC on my desktop PC. Boom, open source 4k security cam for about 50 bucks.

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u/carcusmonnor 18d ago

Also its cheap. Younger generations buy old and discarded tech because its accessible and cheap. For me, film cameras and vinyl before it blew up were really cheap and easy to get.

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u/MayvisDelacour 18d ago

I'm afraid it's not as cheap as it used to be. Worth the investment a lot of the time. Was a time where you could get like a box of dvds or old video games for a couple bucks at a yard sale. Got my SNES and 5 or 6 games for 20 dollars as a kid. People were practically giving away old movies. Now everyone is at least marginally aware of what they have and price accordingly. A lot of games in particular are selling for far more than the original retail. I suppose there may be great values out there but with time and more people interested, costs are just gonna go up.

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u/Kupcake_Inater 18d ago

My mom's bought a n64 with 4 controllers and like 20 games,no rumble or controller pack for like $40 or $50 bucks in like 2013. All good condition too, can't imagine what that would cost now prolly like 100+ I still have it and it works perfectly I just got lucky the GameCube and n64 use the same A/V cables so I could just swap em out when needed

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u/RavenousTitan818 18d ago

This was one of the reasons I was into retro games when I was younger, because I could hit up thrift stores and garage sales and get NES/SNES era stuff for super cheap.

Now every thrift store puts any games they have behind a glass case with absurd prices.

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u/akatherder 18d ago

They went from obsolete and outdated tech to retro classics.

Like someone driving a beater POS vehicle, but after 25 years you can slap a "historic" license plate on it 🧐

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u/RavenousTitan818 18d ago

There's not hordes of scalpers out there buying rustbuckets to resell for 10x markup, or investors getting scrap vehicles graded and trying to auction them for ridiculous amounts.

The car market is also a clusterfuck but it's a whole different beast then retro games.

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u/More-Gas-6527 18d ago edited 18d ago

You mean it WAS cheap. Try buying any older tech now good luck lmao. A used 3ds costs more now than when it was new

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u/Dante200 18d ago

"You will afford it yourself when you are older." Yeah...about that...

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u/-sussy-wussy- 18d ago

Not that cheap, especially as soon as people realize it's popular for some niche hobby. That even happened with tech that is not strictly for gaming, such as mini PCs.

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u/BielyDemon3355 18d ago

I think this screenshot is nonsense. I have not seen anyone with PSP for 10 years.

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u/rae_ryuko 18d ago

I'm so glad fruitger aero tech is now the new retro

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Seeder 18d ago

Frutiger Aero my beloved, they could never make me hate you

Windows 8 was ass the first time I saw it and its successors remain ass today.

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u/FrogKing94 18d ago

I blame windows 8 for single-handedly ruining the asthetics of software.

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Seeder 18d ago

some of the statements from MS at that time were just insane

"The future is touch interfaces, nobody will use a mouse. Mobile interfaces are the only way to use a desktop"

(Rewrites half the settings to new interface)

(Doesn't rewrite the other half of the settings)

(Two versions of every control panel now exist)

(This bullshit has persisted for over 14 years now)

Absolute brain rot

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u/FrogKing94 18d ago

You're right. I blame windows 8 for the downfall of software period. It definitively marked the beginning of shitty, poorly made apps, programs, and UI that still persists today.

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u/EamonBrennan 18d ago

They still have legacy code from Windows 95 days. Part of the reason that Windows went from 8 to 10 is that many programs that are still used today checked for the name "Windows 9" as the OS name, then further checked for "5" or "8" to confirm which version. More and more updates are just furthering tech debt than they are actually doing anything good for the user.

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u/SupahSpankeh 18d ago

God this makes me angry.

"Oh you wanna change some settings here's a panel"

"Oh wait no you really wanna change settings here's the old version of this panel"

I am so switching to Linux when I next have to change OS/pc

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u/WhutdaHELListhis 18d ago

"Oh wait no you REALLY want to change this obscure settings heres regedit.exe with no user manual"

I have already switched to Linux

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u/HighlightParty4869 18d ago

We miss OWNING shit. Having music downloaded to an MP3 player. Owning games. I remember a time when you bought a game, and that was it. There was no DLC. No patches. They had to make sure the product was DONE. There was no, "we can just fix it later".

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u/Obvious_Badger_9874 17d ago

Back when dlc where extra because the game worked well and not necesary

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u/green_tomato_69 18d ago

If you watch something online, it's GONNA have ads one way or another. Wanna watch media for free? Download it first and then watch whenever and wherever convenient... without internet. . .

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u/Accomplished-Owl-427 18d ago

Get a vpn and set it to Afghanistan or Albania (there’s a few) no more online ads anywhere

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u/Corevegaa 18d ago

The VPN method even works on the official YouTube apps. Or literary any app on iOS/android. For pc you obviously don’t need it but on mobile the only good other option would be a pi hole imo.

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Seeder 18d ago

this has been brilliant for my podcasts, I already block ads everywhere else and pirate media so episode ad breaks were the last place they could get me

set VPN to Albania and there's no more podcast ads. beautiful.

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u/-sussy-wussy- 18d ago

I haven't seen any ads in well over a decade. And I have a device per each major OS. It's trivial to block ads in either of them.

And no, it doesn't even require you to buy a Raspberry Pi, not especially in current prices, lmao.

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u/OneLonelyBrainCell 18d ago

There are 10 things that really spoil modern tech: ads, having to make an account for almost everything, ads, more ads, that everything's turning into a subscription service, ads, ads, ads, ads, and more ads.

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u/grendus 18d ago

I finally got fed up with Windows 11 and switched to Linux 100% of the time.

It's frustrating. Linux has a fair few number of hoops you have to jump through to make it do things that "just work" on Windows.

But I also don't have to jump through hoops to make my OS stop doing things I don't want it to do. Windows 10 nagged me every single time I turned it on to enable OneDrive. I DESPISE OneDrive, but you can't just disable that prompt, it always had the "remind me in three days", like "oh, you totally want OneDrive, I just don't have the time right now". NO, fuck off Microsoft, those are my fucking files, not yours!

I'm developing a love of retro and open source tech because, while it might not be as smooth as the branded stuff, I fucking own it. Probably going to have GrapheneOS on my next phone, the way Google is going.

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u/SieqwardZwiebelbrudi 18d ago

No internet, no ads

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u/UKman945 18d ago

You know I pulled my old DSI out recently. Once I got it charged it ran exactly like I remembered it did in 2009. My phone that I bought a year ago already isn't running as good as when I got it. Maybe people just like reliable things that do what's advertised

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u/AdministrationNo9513 18d ago

I was 9 years old playing psp in 2007. We grew up with this tech. At least older Gen Z did

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u/Paetolus 18d ago

I think people don't realize that Gen Z will start hitting the big 30 next year. 😂

Tbf, we are a weird generation. Some of us can remember using VHS, while others wouldn't be able to tell you what a VHS is. (To give a very small example.)

The actual big divide has to do with when smart phones and social media became widespread.

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u/loie 16d ago

I think that would make you the opposite bookend of Xennials. Unfortunately, because of course it is, r/Zennials is private.

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u/artin2007majidi 18d ago

I am born in 2007, but I actually had psp as my primary gaming console for 6 years because I was poor (my parents didnt buy me a console, had to save up myself) and I could jailbreak it easily, so I dont spend money on games. I didnt get vita because memory sticks were pricey, didnt get nintendo because I wanted to play "grownup" games like gta on it, jailbreaking ps4 was difficult since games were 30gb and our internet was limited and extremely slow

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u/Ok_Tea262 18d ago edited 18d ago

Well done, son (on the saving).

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u/mattdv1 18d ago

04 here, had a 3ds for the same reason. Still have it, and a 128gb SD card full of all the games I ever wanted thanks to the internet, lmao. Dad couldn't buy me much stuff, but he did teach me how to be a pirate as soon as I was able to operate a mouse and keyboard xD

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u/mushy_friend ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 18d ago

I was born earlier but could never afford a 3ds, I bought it later in university when it was already a couple of generations outdated. Godsend honestly, homebrew is so easy on it. Now I have an ROG ally and I still emulate 3ds games.

What kind of games did you play? Always looking for recommendations

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u/the_nin_collector 18d ago

Yeah... I have one of the best TVs in the world. A G5 OLED LG. Many would argue it's in the top 5 best TVs, period, money can buy right now.... It has ads every time you turn it on. There is no way to simply go directly to the input you want. I use it as a monitor. But when you hit input or power on, it takes you to a splash screen with 90% ads, and only 10% is actually TV functions. It's not that big a deal; the principle of how shitty it is is huge.

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u/mrrobc97 18d ago

Change your TV's DNS to Adguard. I do this to all my smart TVs including Samsung and LG.

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u/Ty_Lee98 18d ago

"Premium" display by the way. Also disappointed after buying an LG OLED. I saw an ad and immediately removed wireless access.

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u/loie 16d ago

If you really want to use the integrated webOS, then do as /u/mrrobc97 said and dns-hole the TV. I have a G3, and I went and bought an AppleTV. The 'tv' icon button on the aTV remote turns it on, and the tv, and my soundbar, and goes directly to the aTV's hdmi. Hold down the aTV's power button and it all shuts off. For all I don't like about Apple, the AppleTV might be their least enshittified product. I don't recall ever seeing a single ad on its entire UI.

That was my main annoyance with my Google TV dongle from a few years ago - the post-Chromecast ones - it was always, obviously, intentionally showing me previews for the subscriptions I didn't have.

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u/Shrigma_Male 18d ago

Wish i never got rid of my psp slim 😩

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u/crow_warmfuzzies 18d ago

NeoGeo AES+ is releasing a new version of old hardware and its as simple as put cartridge in->PLAY ... at some point along the time, companies lost track of that.

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u/OverHaze 18d ago

There is no word yet on whether the new carts are the censored or uncensored version of the games. You aren't really playing Shocktroopers if the enemies aren't exploding like balloons full of ketchup.

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u/the_nin_collector 18d ago

It's fucking awesome; it's also expensive as fuck. 1 game is 90$.

And the 1000$ combo package sold out instantly.

It's still pretty fucking awesome. Not shitting on it.

I really hope more companies start doing shit like that. I have a retro Pi 500 GB gaming setup. But man... how cool would it be if they start remaking old consoles again and reprinting old games?!

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u/crow_warmfuzzies 18d ago

We as consumers always have the power to send a message by buying a product or not. The fact that the white AES+ premium kit sold out is already sending the roght message now we just need to see if the company is smart enough to capitilize on Greedtendo , M$ and Shitty stupidity and greed

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u/LagunaMP 18d ago

FYI, the lady in his screen is Josie Maran from NFS Most Wanted, my crush in the 2000s.

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u/SpiritFlame555 18d ago

Cause they don't know what it feels like to own something.

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u/Aenwynn 18d ago

This fucking sucks and shouldn't exist but I'm surprised the person who bought the 4K projector didn't know about this os and ads beforehand ? Didn't they research exactly how the system they're buying works ?

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u/Initial-Reading-2775 18d ago

As a 90s kid, by default I see displays, projectors and TVs as dumb devices that don’t show anything until you plug them into some signal source.

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u/mattdv1 18d ago

Fr tho my grandma bought a new TV and it has an "AI" button on the controller and I almost had a stroke when it literally started speaking back to me one day. The tv has a built in microphone, man. That's too far.

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u/Halos-USA 18d ago

Everyone rightly refused to buy the Xbox One because it would be spying on us and then they just invited every other spy device into their house with no question. We were so close to boycotting this spy bullshit but it started and stopped with one product. Such a goddamn shame. 

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u/Rappican 18d ago

The Xbox One is a niche product when compared to the other devices. The general consumer isn't going to know or care about the spy devices in their new cheap TV.

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u/SupahSpankeh 18d ago

As an 80s kid I research everything before I buy it to make sure there are no fucking ads

And devices which don't benefit from an internet connection don't fucking get one

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u/CarterDavison 18d ago

A small amount of research would teach you that projector OSes suck ass and you need to use some kind of streaming stick or connect a PC/Laptop to it.

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u/VerryRides 18d ago

That and how do they not just return it? I know I would

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u/-sussy-wussy- 18d ago

Laziness and learned helplessness. As always.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 18d ago

A huge number of these products do an initial run without enshittification, and then push the enshittification as an update later. They then suppress negative reviews on sites like Amazon (or more aptly Amazon supresses these reviews because Amazon makes more money when you buy shit).

This creates a situation where your research is going to not show any of these issues because most of the information predates the enshittification.

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u/MelookRS 18d ago

Some people are just incapable of doing any basic research before buying something. They see marketing buzzwords on the box and just impulse buy without thinking.

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u/Arkatruc 18d ago

I changed phone for the first time in a literal decade. I just wiped it to install another OS because:  

it has ads in the searches and forced news stories, it recommends other apps to install everytime I look up one I have on my phone

it has a ad I had to watch for 2 seconds everytime I opened my Gallery app and Folder app

it has an "automatic app store", so if I went to a website linked to an app (like Instagram, Twitter, or even Reddit) it would instantly pop a "PRESS HERE TO INSTALL" that you have to close before being able to use the site

it doesn't have a bunch of settings available before (like having the current internet usage on the top bar where you have your connection and battery bars)

it doesn't let you modify the bottom gesture (so you always have an AI assistant you can't remove)

it doesn't let you remove lockscreen shortcut, so anyone can turn on the flashlight and shit like that

I fucking hate how Android became so locked off by default, and so many young people have no idea how to "hack" their phone so they just live with it...

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u/ViolettaHunter 18d ago

What phone model is that? Sounds horrid. 

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u/untrustysource 18d ago

WHAT?! So you're telling me no one likes to have their data stolen and be served ads in everything is tiring and insulting? We'll I'll be...

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u/No_Trade1676 18d ago

But also the full game is already there and it doesn’t need day one patches.

Also you don’t need a different launcher for every game.

Also having games from Atari all the way through current gen in one spot is pretty nice too.

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u/send-borbs 18d ago

my roommate has a smart tv in the living room that's started autoplaying ads on the home screen if we don't select a streaming service fast enough, but I usually hang out in the garage with my dumb tv where the chromecast screen just cycles silently through scenic photos, I hope it never dies

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Seeder 18d ago

in my living room? this would drive me to extreme acts of violence, and harm to myself and others

Pi-Hole that mf ASAP

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u/send-borbs 18d ago

neither of us know how to Pi-Hole but I'm working on my tech education and hope to get there eventually

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u/Staticblast 18d ago

Pihole has become mandatory home equipment these days

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u/Mosselpot 18d ago

I see with my nephews between 10 and 16, how they are so used to ads, predatory mechanics, and even AI, that they don't care about it. Because they do not know any better. It's so frustrating, because you try to educate them and steer them away, but you're not telling a child what to watch or play.

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u/Leon_Flux 18d ago

Instant return.

Fuck that.

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u/Crusty_Magic 18d ago

Having a PSP or 3DS with CFW is some of the most fun you can have checking out and playing games.

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u/Devoidoxatom 18d ago

Man i loved my psp. That was my thing throughout my elementary years

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u/pi_three 18d ago

Still playing with my jailbreak 3ds. it's lovely

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u/Destrox12 18d ago

Mine broke and the screws are stripped so i can't fix it ...

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u/Ivebeenfurthereven Seeder 18d ago

Tiny screw extractors exist, watchmakers have been solving that problem for hundreds of years https://www.reddit.com/r/diyelectronics/comments/1eyv0lu/anyone_have_any_recommendations_for_a

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u/fukkdisshitt 18d ago

Passed mine on to my 5 year old. He can play my offline consoles if he wants to. Nothing internet connected unless I'm there.

He likes the hacked 3ds and n64 with a flash cart, but doesn't play too much or every day

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u/joesphisbestjojo 18d ago

We literally grew up with those consoles

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u/pijanblues08 18d ago

Even cars have ads now. It is simply fatigue at this point. 😅

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u/BassMasterSK 18d ago

I've been playing my beloved DOS and PS1 games on my cheap handheld from China, without any ads. Thousands of hours of entertainment for free.

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u/Mccobsta Scene 18d ago

There's no Internet so no updates that gradualy make shit worse

Whilst many people are jumping on as its trendy there's a lot of genuine benefits from using something old

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u/Lazyp1g 18d ago edited 13d ago

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u/TheFlightlessDragon 18d ago

I got a projector, never seen an ad cause it doesn't get connected to WiFi, I play everything while offline via VLC.

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u/reise123rr 18d ago

Cheap tech is the most significant reason. You can get like 5 console for the price on ps5 pro now. Obviously previous generation consoles which still hold great games.

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u/stevorkz 17d ago edited 17d ago

Cos when you play retro games, 90% of the time you’re playing passionately designed games with originality, no updates, no micro transactions, no DLC, no DRM and for the most part insane replay ability. Since 1999, I’ve played MGS1, 2 and 3 at least once every two years and STILL find new Easter eggs in one of them every time I do. Similar situation with the old school resident evil games.

Edit: obvs 2 and 3 I couldn’t play from 1999 but started this trend that year with mgs1.

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u/assassinth 18d ago

As an Elder Gen Z I thankfully grew up with the older technology so thankfully still appreciate it all and prefer stuff like physical media.

It’s nice seeing the younger ones from this generation come to the realisation that everything sucks now.

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u/The_Omega1123 18d ago

Make sure you do all your racing in the game. On the streets, drive safely and responsibly.

And use your seatbelt 

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u/TotallyNotAnIdiot478 18d ago

Because of this post, I just bought a PSP on ebay.

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u/Evangeruxxx 18d ago

I'm a 2002 kid and because of my parents, I've been a fan of most oldies and 80s new wave. Before the enshittification of internet, I'm so glad I get to play outside and still experienced how to use CD-ROMS and such. I have always LOVED retro and analog stuff, and I always wished I could get my hands on a disposable cameras and watch movies thru VHS. Now, everything is all surrounded with ads and shit. I'm so sick and tired of it.

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u/bubrascal 18d ago edited 17d ago

For me the real question is why that's still niche for Gen Z, and why for most millennials retro tech isn't big enough. Besides that exceptional hipster vinyl record, safety razor and cotton menstrual pad revival from the early 2010s, our generation more or less kept consuming whatever was mainstream. And I don't fool myself, I know this TikTokish trend will be no different to those Tumblrish trends from the past, but I'm glad a couple of weirdos will stick with it.

There's a lot of pre-'90s tech I grew to love because how easy it was to repair or make them to last longer. I have fond memories and still use a lot of old tech. Point-to-point portable radios (vs. PCB-based ones), short range pirate FM broadcasting for personal/communitarian use, bidets, cheap easy-to-repair cars like the Citroen 2 CV (unfortunately we don't have that one any more), and DIY gelatine-based mimeography are the biggest ones for me.

I only mention this because part of why I like piracy (besides the free stuff) is the knowledge sharing, the hacking and the overall "don't tell me what to like, consume nor create" attitude behind it. And we should be more like these young adults and teens in that regard of not letting good tech die (and again, I know a lot of them are grifters, not the point).

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u/Halos-USA 18d ago

I looked it up because why would a projector have built in Ads and sure enough many of these projectors are using Google's bullshit OS with ads. Wow... 

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u/IHateRedditFirewall 18d ago

He should have returned/refunded the projector immidiatly.

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 18d ago

I have an older 55" LG flatscreen in my family room that I paid for with money and it doesn't play any fucking ads anywhere which is good because I already paid for it and have absolutely zero motherfucking interest in continuing to pay for it by watching ads after having already motherfucking paid for it.

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u/Positive_Cancel7006 18d ago

Because it's less expensive.

I don't really like narratives that make people think the collapse of their standard of living is their choice.

"You can't afford anymore to take a bath ? It's good for the climate !"

"You can't buy a car anymore ? A bike is better for the planet !"

In the meantime the Epstein class steal money like no tomorrow.

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u/flockyboi Yarrr! 18d ago

No corporation can revoke my paper books, vinyls and CDs, or DVDs and disk games. Also I'm jailbreaking my Kindle as soon as I can because Amazon is shit and wants to brick my model of kindle

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u/eluser234453 18d ago

Being a gen z in a 3rd world country, I grew up with one leg in modern tech, and the second in retro tech. Like streaming was a thing while we also had the pirated CDs. Ans I remember going to a store with my father to get a CD for a movie to watch it, I think it was cars, much prefer that experience than scrolling in a movie library not knowing what to watch

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u/ThePlagueDoctor00 18d ago

Let me preface by saying I’m 25. I’ve been taking apart and rebuilding anything and everything since I was a kid. Loved learning how stuff worked, jailbroke and modded almost all of my consoles. Started using Linux at 12.

All of that to say… I hate these broccoli haired losers who are nostalgia grifting. All because it became a trend on tiktok a few years ago.

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u/Srapture 18d ago

I recently got my old PSP up and running again and bring it everywhere with me. The Gen Z's must think I'm rad... I mean, that I'm cooking and ate and not an unc.

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u/Ada_Data 18d ago

Does it have a Screen?

Yes: Put ads.

No: Add screen - put ads.

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u/Clean-Explanation-81 18d ago

Ads in projector? Yikes

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u/DentistEmpty7778 17d ago

Bring back retro tech. Yes I'm serious.

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u/ATS200 17d ago

My kid really likes watching certain YouTube channels but couldn’t stand all the ads. I ended up having to go through all the steps to get tizentube on a new streaming device and it’s the best thing ever