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It must be that we see the tech from our teen years through rose-tinted glasses. I fondly recall the computers and games from then but all of that objectively

It must be that we see the tech from our teen years through rose-tinted glasses. I fondly recall the computers and games from then but all of that objectively sucks today

082349872349872 2y ago
I saw the model railroads of my youth and wondered if someday people would set up recreational computer layouts in their garages. I've lived long enough to see the "homelab" become a thing.
- npteljes 2y ago
  That was a good guess. Whatever there is, there's a hobby version of it, especially in this age of capitalism.
jfengel 2y ago
As the saying goes... Everything from before our teens is antiquated; everything from our teens and 20s is normal and right; everything invented after we turn 30 is suspect and unnecessary.
- portaouflop 2y ago
  While I feel this quote now applies to me, I also think it’s bias mostly. There were tons of stupid things invented in my childhood, but we only kept the „good“ ones around. Similarly old stuff seems antiquated because we found better new solutions in many cases. And the majority of new inventions is unnecessary, we'll see in a decade or so which ones are gonna stick
  - npteljes 2y ago
    >While I feel this quote now applies to me, I also think it’s bias mostly. Yes, that's mostly what it is. It's basically how people grow up and react to change. And there are many biases at play, like the recency bias, where the current events seem more impactful than the past events, or the survivorship bias of the old refrigerator of grandma, chugging along all these years, they don't make stuff like this anymore. And the funny thing is that despite bias, there is good information in the experiences as well, because things really do change over time, and certain things really do have certain upsides, which were lost when the thing changed.

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It must be that we see the tech from our teen years through rose-tinted glasses. I fondly recall the computers and games from then but all of that objectively

by FredPret 2y ago

It must be that we see the tech from our teen years through rose-tinted glasses. I fondly recall the computers and games from then but all of that objectively sucks today

082349872349872 2y ago
I saw the model railroads of my youth and wondered if someday people would set up recreational computer layouts in their garages. I've lived long enough to see the "homelab" become a thing.
- npteljes 2y ago
  That was a good guess. Whatever there is, there's a hobby version of it, especially in this age of capitalism.
jfengel 2y ago
As the saying goes... Everything from before our teens is antiquated; everything from our teens and 20s is normal and right; everything invented after we turn 30 is suspect and unnecessary.
- portaouflop 2y ago
  While I feel this quote now applies to me, I also think it’s bias mostly. There were tons of stupid things invented in my childhood, but we only kept the „good“ ones around. Similarly old stuff seems antiquated because we found better new solutions in many cases. And the majority of new inventions is unnecessary, we'll see in a decade or so which ones are gonna stick
  - npteljes 2y ago
    >While I feel this quote now applies to me, I also think it’s bias mostly. Yes, that's mostly what it is. It's basically how people grow up and react to change. And there are many biases at play, like the recency bias, where the current events seem more impactful than the past events, or the survivorship bias of the old refrigerator of grandma, chugging along all these years, they don't make stuff like this anymore. And the funny thing is that despite bias, there is good information in the experiences as well, because things really do change over time, and certain things really do have certain upsides, which were lost when the thing changed.