Well some of it is really fun- the problem is all the mainstream shit coin micro transaction nft ai bullshit. Just stop supporting those things
You can order a Linux handheld n100 touchscreen for under $300. Technology is absolutely fun today.
The point is the vast majority of mainstream technology is increasingly being targeted at exploiting users for profit, rather than just providing a product or service in exchange for money.
Ok, but the solution is super easy, low cost, and right in front of you. Pick up a Raspberry Pi if you want to go even cheaper. If you are uncomfortable with electronics, you can still piece together a bunch of cool stuff just using USB as your interface of choice.
Also, 10" mini racks are cool.
Lots of cool stuff happening in tech if you look outside of the big corporations.
Can you share a link? I haven't come across an n100 handheld yet, or maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.
Running vanilla linux on that kind of device is silly, kernel-wise android has very sensible features and ui-wise it's not even a competition.
Now, getting lineage (or similar) on a phone that doesn't cost an arm and a leg for comparatively potato hardware, like the Fairphone, that's another issue.
Or how about a steam deck with an m.2 slot for a cellular modem. Also, headset, because I'm not going to hold that thing to my ear. But still, android compatibility is an issue: The reason I even have a shoddy smartphone is to use things like public transit and package delivery apps.
Man I remember one of my friends got a flat panel about a decade ago and he is a huge movie buff, tons of old horror and sci fi VHS and DVDs. He would invite me to watch movies and it just always boggled my mind how fucking shitty and unwatchable the movies were.
It was years later when I realized it was that smooth motion garbage. I really do not understand how people can put up with how trash that feature is
Consisting your friend is a huge movie buff I'm surprised it didn't bother the heck out of him, film fans usually turn that crap off as soon as they turn on the TV. Supposedly it's because sports, soap operas and a lot of low budget TV are shot & broadcast at higher frame rate than film - so when you watch a film with the frame rate artificially increased your brain goes 'I am watching low budget soap trash' subconsciously. I think people are just used to film looking a certain way and anything that makes it appear quite different is too distracting for them to relax into the fantasy.
The biggest problem for me is the absolute crap interfaces for most tech. No logic in the design.no ability to look at an interface and be able to just understand what you need to do. Now it's spend an hour doing Google searches and trying to figure it out.
There is a logic to the design: most apps are designed to be used for as long as possible instead of getting what you want done.
I just watched this yesterday!
Drew made some very good points while still being understandable enough to those that aren't as up to par with what is going wrong in the world. Really well done video, and so was his gambling dilemma video!
Thanks for sharing!
It totally is.
I have fun with technology every single day.
Yesterday I spent a good part of the evening scrapping a site to serve myself an API of it's contents and dockerizing the app.
BTW if you try to put a service under docker with exposed ports remember to change localhost to 0.0.0.0
