I’m kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It’s just not fun anymore. I know I’m probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.
I know it’s more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.
I feel like we’ve arrived at a low point of personal computing, whereas the arrival of the Amiga marked the high point. “Here, have some affordable hardware and software, we leave you alone to run wild.” And people did, resulting in amazing outbursts of creativity. Of the people, for the people. In fact, I’d liken it to the discovery of fire or writing.
Nowadays, computers are a lot more powerful, but they are not equally more empowering. Unless you think making or watching trite, interchangeable
corporate puppetinfluencer videos is worthwile. Software is bloated, repulsive, intrusive, and you have to fight ads, upselling attempts and recurring fees on a daily basis. It appears to be a losing battle…