The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread

@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I don’t think social media kills as often as other “vices”

Read Jonathan Haidt’s books on the subject. You’d be surprised how bad social media is. The effect its having on our youth is significantly worse than alcohol or drugs ever were. Here is a brief article https://www.persuasion.community/p/haidt-the-teen-mental-illness-epidemic

Social media makes people think they’re trans, that the world is flat, etc.

Now, you could fix this in other ways but acting like it isn’t all that bad isn’t one of them. Banning it probably is the wrong route too. Trump’s plan to end section 230 and force social media companies to allow you to opt out of their algorithms if accomplished are good first steps. However, the human brain is wired to deal with drama on the scale of the entire planet. The human brain is still wired for tribal life still not planet sized bullshit 24/7.

This x 1000

But fixing it seems impossible. We’re the car that’s edged itself into a car parking cul-de-sac that it now can’t reverse itself out of. I can refuse my kids having true SM until they’re 16, maybe. But after that? It’s there, waiting to pounce, and they’ll voluntarily grab it for its attractions and benefits.

We are fucked. We screwed it all up.

There are people who do not participate, but they are few by now, I guess.

I am not immune. I participate in this forum. That must count as social media, right?

eWildcat

Well… Speaking of LOT. Peggy and I installed an app on Daphné’s phone so that she can’t freely install new apps and, above all, access the internet.
What I didn’t tell Peggy is that what I feared the most was not Daphné finding things like the black web or Japanese p0rn.

Kilemall

@eWildcat said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Well… Speaking of LOT. Peggy and I installed an app on Daphné’s phone so that she can’t freely install new apps and, above all, access the internet.
What I didn’t tell Peggy is that what I feared the most was not Daphné finding things like the black web or Japanese p0rn.

Your former WWIIOL life?

silky

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@silky said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I don’t think social media kills as often as other “vices”

Read Jonathan Haidt’s books on the subject. You’d be surprised how bad social media is. The effect its having on our youth is significantly worse than alcohol or drugs ever were. Here is a brief article https://www.persuasion.community/p/haidt-the-teen-mental-illness-epidemic

Social media makes people think they’re trans, that the world is flat, etc.

Now, you could fix this in other ways but acting like it isn’t all that bad isn’t one of them. Banning it probably is the wrong route too. Trump’s plan to end section 230 and force social media companies to allow you to opt out of their algorithms if accomplished are good first steps. However, the human brain is wired to deal with drama on the scale of the entire planet. The human brain is still wired for tribal life still not planet sized bullshit 24/7.

This x 1000

But fixing it seems impossible. We’re the car that’s edged itself into a car parking cul-de-sac that it now can’t reverse itself out of. I can refuse my kids having true SM until they’re 16, maybe. But after that? It’s there, waiting to pounce, and they’ll voluntarily grab it for its attractions and benefits.

We are fucked. We screwed it all up.

There are people who do not participate, but they are few by now, I guess.

I am not immune. I participate in this forum. That must count as social media, right?

Personally. I don’t count Forums as social media though they probably meet whatever technical definitions might govern that

Gustaf

This is Punch You in Da Facebook!

oyaji

@silky said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@silky said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I don’t think social media kills as often as other “vices”

Read Jonathan Haidt’s books on the subject. You’d be surprised how bad social media is. The effect its having on our youth is significantly worse than alcohol or drugs ever were. Here is a brief article https://www.persuasion.community/p/haidt-the-teen-mental-illness-epidemic

Social media makes people think they’re trans, that the world is flat, etc.

Now, you could fix this in other ways but acting like it isn’t all that bad isn’t one of them. Banning it probably is the wrong route too. Trump’s plan to end section 230 and force social media companies to allow you to opt out of their algorithms if accomplished are good first steps. However, the human brain is wired to deal with drama on the scale of the entire planet. The human brain is still wired for tribal life still not planet sized bullshit 24/7.

This x 1000

But fixing it seems impossible. We’re the car that’s edged itself into a car parking cul-de-sac that it now can’t reverse itself out of. I can refuse my kids having true SM until they’re 16, maybe. But after that? It’s there, waiting to pounce, and they’ll voluntarily grab it for its attractions and benefits.

We are fucked. We screwed it all up.

There are people who do not participate, but they are few by now, I guess.

I am not immune. I participate in this forum. That must count as social media, right?

Personally. I don’t count Forums as social media though they probably meet whatever technical definitions might govern that

This is as close to social media as we get in my immediate family, and only I indulge, although I have cousins who have told me how much I need to be on the facebook to promote my farm. One has told me in particular that the winery cannot succeed without it.

Personally, I count avoidance of social media as a success.

oyaji

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

This is Punch You in Da Facebook!

There was an animated gif posted a dozen years ago on OOBOT of an Asian woman being punched in the side of the face through a thick phonebook. Is it still around? I cannot seem to search it up online, but posting it here would annoy hell out of blanks and lobster.

Gustaf

Are you asking me to do a Google search for you? Because my services are not free.

Kilemall

@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Are you asking me to do a Google search for you? Because my services are not free.

Does Blanks have competition?

Lob12

Many games don’t really support that DLSS thingy yet from what I know

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Many games don’t really support that DLSS thingy yet from what I know

When you are laying out 2000 bucks for a card, a big selling point is future proofing.

Kilemall

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@silky said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@silky said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

I don’t think social media kills as often as other “vices”

Read Jonathan Haidt’s books on the subject. You’d be surprised how bad social media is. The effect its having on our youth is significantly worse than alcohol or drugs ever were. Here is a brief article https://www.persuasion.community/p/haidt-the-teen-mental-illness-epidemic

Social media makes people think they’re trans, that the world is flat, etc.

Now, you could fix this in other ways but acting like it isn’t all that bad isn’t one of them. Banning it probably is the wrong route too. Trump’s plan to end section 230 and force social media companies to allow you to opt out of their algorithms if accomplished are good first steps. However, the human brain is wired to deal with drama on the scale of the entire planet. The human brain is still wired for tribal life still not planet sized bullshit 24/7.

This x 1000

But fixing it seems impossible. We’re the car that’s edged itself into a car parking cul-de-sac that it now can’t reverse itself out of. I can refuse my kids having true SM until they’re 16, maybe. But after that? It’s there, waiting to pounce, and they’ll voluntarily grab it for its attractions and benefits.

We are fucked. We screwed it all up.

There are people who do not participate, but they are few by now, I guess.

I am not immune. I participate in this forum. That must count as social media, right?

Personally. I don’t count Forums as social media though they probably meet whatever technical definitions might govern that

This is as close to social media as we get in my immediate family, and only I indulge, although I have cousins who have told me how much I need to be on the facebook to promote my farm. One has told me in particular that the winery cannot succeed without it.

Personally, I count avoidance of social media as a success.

They are probably right about the winery PR.

Lob12

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Many games don’t really support that DLSS thingy yet from what I know

When you are laying out 2000 bucks for a card, a big selling point is future proofing.

Yeah sure. But basically with my 4070ti im still fine for a while.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

Many games don’t really support that DLSS thingy yet from what I know

When you are laying out 2000 bucks for a card, a big selling point is future proofing.

Yeah sure. But basically with my 4070ti im still fine for a while.

I went just 4070 for the new machine. Lickity split, no baking necessary.