I remember SETI@home and folding@home… SETI I think is a dead end, but understanding our genome and proteome and how constantly recycled ageless atoms somehow manage to encode “age” is something I really want to know.
I am a huge asocial nerd that lives in a hovel surrounded by vintage computers. And lots of DVDs and Blu-rays.
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Aging sucks. I think with the tremendous computing resources presently wasted on vapid AI slop and endless fart videos, we could instead use it for anti-aging research.
312·12 天前Having never been a photo nerd or enthusiast, I am in the “good enough” camp. I’ve given up a long time ago on the “metrics bullying” and gatekeeping, electronics have reached such a level of performance and low price, everything is the same to me. If you see neutrinos, great!
Do you ever actually take pictures of anything remotely interesting or worthwhile, or is it just an object you can talk about endlessly and upgrade continuously?
It’s like audio, at some point is it about listening to music or buying new speakers?
Have I mentioned I’m old?
I don’t need pictures of neutrinos or every individual quark of my cat. We passed the “good enough” stage a long time ago. Point, shoot, digitally hoard pictures for no reason, the end.
Bah just buy clip-on accessory lenses for your phone. Cheap and cheerful. There is/was? even a thread standard for these little monsters. I had a metal case for my S7 that had a threaded opening over the camera and I could screw in a macro lens or a 12x telescope. Got me all the ladies too. No it didn’t.
Canon still exists? People still use dedicated cameras? I found Canon hardware to be overrated, scanners to cameras to printers. All shit in one way or another. And their software, my god, the cruft.
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Try a 1980s Genicom with separate containers for toner and waste toner.
She was pretty hot in ReBoot
Can we also stop with the quasar-bright fucking white LEDs on every fucking thing in existence?
You have provided no substantive evidence of what I can’t do with Windows 7. You have provided nothing but vague fear-mongering while inflating your chest about what a biker bad-ass you are.
Yet you refuse to see that other people also make trade-offs. My tradeoff is that sometimes I can’t install piece of shit software like KiCAD that somehow requires Windows 11 to move lines on a screen.
No big loss.
I don’t think I’m “at par” with Microsoft, what kind of sickness is this? Your brain fascinates me.
“There is a reason no one serious uses win 7 online anymore”
Oh I see, you are a serious person doing serious business. Serious serious serious. Meanwhile not a single concrete example has been given to me about these serious things I can’t do.
“Same reason cars without seatbelts are few on the roads.”
There is no overlap between the physical world and software delusions. There is no physical safety hazard here. Meanwhile, millions of motorcyclists use no seatbelts.
Again, your brain is fascinating.
So basically, you derive your identity from this.
What from this decade can I not do? You seem to think this is fashion. It’s just technical crap.
Computers stopped solving real problems a long time ago. “Something from this decade” like what? Endless games for children that stunt your mind? AI fart videos?
2·18 天前Imagine pirating all that, not paying for it, AND having Blurays?
What else are you doing with those 15 minutes, working on world peace?
Imagine going to thrift stores for 15 minutes after work and ending up with all of these on DVD?
Fear mongering nonsense. Did anyone feel that way when infant mortality went way down?
You’ll have other people the same “old” as you to hang out with. Many people say they “feel 25” inside, well guess what, now we can make your body align with that.
We already have “anti-aging” compared to how people aged, say, two hundred or two thousand years ago.
Besides, “immortality” is an absolute, you can always choose to unalive yourself if you feel so strongly about Pokemon Platinum. No Greek-style tragedy of the “immortal” who can’t kill themselves.
Seems to me there is a lot more in life that can be enjoyed with a few extra centuries.
Or even better, a Logan’s Run style of extended youth for your “allotted” four score and ten, then poof! Carousel. No aging, no senescence, no frailty, sickness, disease, waning sense and shrinking brains, just extended 20-something for 60 years, then ZAAP!
I’ll take that over the meandering aging nonsense of how I’m supposed to revel in my aging carcass.
PS: There is no soul. Just complex patterns in a vat of neurons.