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Oh don’t worry, there will be plenty of Windows in hell
Vista
Hell is only being allowed to use Windows 11
I used to think it couldn’t get worse than Vista and yet here we are.
With slop-pilot features
You can’t access your file system, settings or install anything manually, only prompt slop-pilot to do it for you
You don’t even get a keyboard, you have to prompt him with your voice
Nono, Cortana handles the keyboard, Copilot does the mouse
I suspect you’re roughly my age because of the use of “puter”.
I’m early gen z (like watching stuff on VHS as a kid early)
my millennial ass
I feel old amongst gen z and often feel stuck in between younger zoomers and millennials. Going from VHS to DVDs to Blue-ray to streaming throughout your childhood was absolutely wild. I went from never using computers at age 6, to smartphones being commonplace in highschool. People only a bit younger than me grew up with easy access to internet being the norm, while it isn’t that uncommon for people my age to have grown up with dial-up. It felt like the internet grew up with me in the sense that it hasn’t radically changed since I came of age. What a weird time to have been born.
oh yeah I remember all of that. it was wild seeing the shift from rotary home phones, to the early mobile phones, a family friend had a fucking car phone lol, then blackberry and the flip phones, and finally the first iphone. all that happened while I was growing up. it was a time of such progress, half of it barely worked, but there was constant tenacious improvement. watching all of it get enshittified in fits and starts has been a joy… the worst part is seeing other millenials just accept that things are trash now like its the natural state of things. like… you remember when this didnt fucking suck why are you ok with it?
Tech peaked in the mid 2010s and it’s been all downhill since. The only noticable graphical improvements in the last decade have been faces. The way we interact with each other hasn’t changed much, and some memes from back then still feel modern. Formats haven’t changed. Work hasn’t really changed. It’s all so normal now, only everything keeps getting degraded by capitalists capitalizing on their market dominance.
Only AI is “new,” but the main way it changes our lives is by being an excuse to take even more from us. It hasn’t killed the internet because we’re all still here and still want to interact with each other. It just augments what people were already able to do at best, while spamming slop trying to exploit you the rest of the time.
I resonate so much with your perspective. I still enjoy my little corner of content creators on YT but I’ve been sad lately about how AI is actively trying to rob genuine human connections from us. Everyone’s paranoid now including myself. Arguments regularly break out in the comments about the content being AI or not. We’ve grown so wary of each other. Back then I’d just refrain from using my real name and enjoy the virtual conversations.
I feel you. I’m at the limit between milennial and gen z and since I had mostly second hand stuff when little I relate to both gen z and millennials.
