Yes, itās also great that Obama phones exist. Obviously from my lifestyle Iāve known many people for whom Obama phones are their way of life, a lifestyle where they have an Obama phone out of necessity about 50-75% of the time. Because while itās still a privilege, it can be a huge barrier.
Hereās my little basket where I keep my iPods, magic eye slideshow things, and calleidoscopes.
Itās also always striking to me personally how these conversations omit and gloss over game boy and portable games. They were the first thing to allow us to commit our attention elsewhere, and yet they require more attention than swiping and have more merit. There is a mix of negatives and positives compared to phones that I think is more akin to someone reading a book or newspaper. But again this conversation just doesnāt happen. Also we are the first generation that grew up looking at handhelds too. In 1998 and beyond I was walking around, gameboy in hand, and getting accosted by adults only, in a sort of way people point at phones far more commonly. I think there were even depictions in cartoons of nerdy kids walking around doing calculations on their calculators in the 80ās/90ās.
Like any sane person, I deleted my Facebook quite a few years ago. Just now I wanted to research something on there so I tried to recover my account, but forgot my old password. The password recovery email never arrived. Not to the spam folder, nowhere.
I tried to make a new account. Turns out they now ask all new users for a full facial scan. I was on a desktop PC with no camera so I just pressed next. They immediately blocked my account for suspicious activity. As in, immediately, I wasnāt able to see the home page or do any activity before being blocked.
And now on marketplace Iām seeing young people selling stuff, it says ājoined Facebook in 2019ā, and that is so weird to me. Why would anyone start an account nowadays lol. Like just donāt. If your account isnāt from 2008 whatās even the point. I donāt trust enough to buy anything from eBay accounts newer than 2017.
another time i tried to create a facebook account with my main email and for some reason i got the same result, blocked and no way around it. i still keep a deactivated account on a separate email just in case i ever need one of its services again (i posted something to marketplace a while back, but i ended up selling it on another platform)
what annoys me is that you cannot give it feedback on bad results. If you search like, āBarbieā thereās a good chance youāll get some Ben Shapiro anti-woke rant in the first few results but thereās no way of saying you donāt want to see that. I donāt get why because you are allowed to give feedback on videos that make it to your homepage and say ādonāt show this video/channelā
I removed Instagram and twitter from my phone, (and thereās very little else on it as is) and deleted all my cookies so everything is logged out on my browsers. Kind of a soft reset. Iām going to see what websites I am triggered to visit. For now itās insert credit only!
telegram (or maybe itās my phone cameraās settings?) keeps applying some ugly face smoothing filter to my selfies and I canāt disable them !! it looks so fake!
iām talking to a lady who works all day and by the time she stops she doesnāt want to stare at screens anymore, which makes communication rather slow between us but i understand and respect her choices. but as someone whoās the opposite and has no problem being online all day it made me a bit anxious for the first few days waiting for responses and adapting to her ways. perhaps itās a warning for me to change my own habits as well.
sheās really cool and nice so iām willing to carry on through this as much as possible, but weāll see how things pan out
Been doing some coding out of my comfort zone a bit recently and am now finding that the landscape of coding tutorials/blog posts is an AI dominated trashfire. All the top results seem to just be a useless AI response to like āexplain x coding thingā.
Yeah this has been driving me up a wall for the last few years :(
It really hit home for me how bad it was last year when I started reading an article only to realize halfway through that the examples made no sense / would probably crash. Started looking around the rest of the site and realized it had only existed since 2023, published a dozen articles a day, and had no bylines for anything.
Now I make a habit of checking the publishing date and authors for all programming guides I read online. :/
