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As an Xer who grew up with all these old technologies and saw the transitions to modern stuff, I fully agree. It's odd how Millennials are so interested in obs
by shiroiuma 3y ago
As an Xer who grew up with all these old technologies and saw the transitions to modern stuff, I fully agree. It's odd how Millennials are so interested in obsolete and obviously inferior technologies like LPs and Polaroid photos.
There's very, very few cases I can think of where an older technology really was better in a significant way. Mechanical keyboards like the IBM Model M (or better yet, the Model F, though the layouts on those keyboards sucked) were really great, but they were also expensive, and we do have all the Cherry-switch mech keyboards now, though personally I don't like them as much.
However, one big negative trend I do see is with streaming services and the entire lack of ownership this carries. This isn't really a technology problem: there's nothing stopping you from buying real CDs and ripping them to FLAC and listening to those on your phone, for instance (that's what I do). I'd call this a mis-application of new technology, similar to how so much software is so ridiculously slow and laggy: it's entirely possible (and easier than ever before with modern tooling) to write software that performs well, but people are just too lazy to do it, and insist on building in too much BS like ads and tracking.
- Klonoar 3y agoI theorize that it comes down to: newer stuff is better, but as a society we’ve somehow made everything trend towards being super impersonal, and thus the next gen is searching for that feeling.
- argiopetech 3y agoThis is is for me. I don't put on a record when I want to work out or drive in the car or hear some ear worm, but I do when I want to create a comfortable, relaxing environment. The lower (than FLAC through nice headphones) fidelity, the soft hum of the turn table, the physical act of choosing and placing a record on a turn table that hasn't changed since it was built 50+ years ago... It's a mechanical thing that requires care and maintenance (though not too much of either), and that brings me joy. It's a stark contrast to mousing/thumbing around on a bright screen.
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- sfn42 3y agoPersonally I don't really see the point of ownership. If I can listen to the music I'm good, I don't need to "own" a copy. I'm probably an outlier, I don't really see the point of collecting things in general. Seems strange to me to have a hobby that consists of literally just buying things.
- KptMarchewa 3y agoI agree with you. Though my reason is that if I were somehow deprived of listening to particular album or watching particular movie, I would not really care.
- shiroiuma 3y agoTwo problems: 1) As people have found out all too often, something you previous had access to, suddenly you don't because the streaming service suddenly removes it for some reason. This is extremely common. This is much more common with movies, admittedly. 2) For music in particular, why pay a monthly fee for something you listen to over and over? That seems very strange to me. I own albums I've had for decades; the idea that I should have been paying a monthly fee just to keep access to them sounds literally insane.