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AAA Games coming onto desktops needing 4090 with DLSS just to be playable at 4k just feels wrong.
I went all in on AI back in 2017 trying to build a chatbot for ecommerce from scratch and it went nowhere. Maybe a bit sour grapes on my end.
There's also the thing that one may be depressed for one reason or another and then feels like doing nothing new anymore and just want to play with the known - which is a quite natural reaction, but shouldn't be confused with getting old.
I want things to work without me having to faff around or spend too long configuring them. This applies to both software and hardware.
The only tool I still use with non-trivial config is my text editor, but that's going to be pared down over time.
Switching from zsh to fish a few years ago left me with a nearly identical shell with a 20 line config instead of hundreds. I'm trying to use this approach wherever possible.
Title is misleading. Not getting excited about a new Next.js version doesn't mean you don't care about new technology. Maybe it just means that you don't feel like reorganizing your code or something. Relatively speaking it's still an incremental upgrade to your approach overall. I am 45 and stopped caring much about new web frameworks many years ago. It's not that I don't find them interesting or even advantageous i…
Hell, I stopped carrying about new web frameworks when I was 25.
As I get older technology seems to be getting worse. Sure my phone charges faster but it's also too tall and not wide enough and it keep using more screen area to show fewer settings and seems to be able to do less every time I get a new one.
Now that we're long past the peak of low hanging fruit of productivity and value, we arrive at the inevitable results of late stage capitalism - extracting the most value possible out of the end user through manipulation and coercion.
It's bloat, it's enshittification, entrapment into rampant rent seeking and it's the low key subversion that has been happening for years.
Maybe I was projecting my own feelings onto the topic, which are mostly about hardware. As I’ve gotten older, I find it much harder to care about new PC components, cutting edge graphics for video games, and processor cores. I just value stability and consistency above all else