idk they used to do it to the Millenials too, and now it's probably mostly X'ers doing it.
I've got to say, it's legitimately hard to keep up with how technology is changing in use. Like my phone is five years old, I have absolutely no idea what modern phones are capable of. My car is five years old, I have no idea what kind of shit they shove in to new cars. At some point you hit a point where you aren't really buying new appliances and then someone's like "Yeah this one uses deep learning to burn frozen pizzas 15% faster" and I just have to be like "woah I had no idea".
Up until like 33 I felt, like I perceived myself as having, a pretty good idea of what was going on with consumer tech and shit. Now I just have no idea. Consumer technology? Manufacturing? Computer Science? Fuck if I lnow, it's currently 2017 and probably will be for the rest of my life. I just don't encounter new and changing stuff often enough to keep up to date and generally don't know what I'm behind on. Tiktok was kind of amazing when it worked because I actually could see young people talking about young people shit in young people language that I otherwise had no access to. But then the algorithms do their paperclip maximizing thing and you lose access even to that.
I was borrowing a family member's lincoln and had it yell at me that i left a child in the back seat. Looked back and the car reminded me i left my bottle of wine and redbull. Totally would have forgotten it there. New tech is weird.
Everything is basically the same consumer tech wise in cars and phones. New phones are more waterproof and have more cameras, that's about it.
New cars have android auto and apple car play, which is just a way to easily use apps while driving in a more legal way. At least owning a separate GPS is now pointless because google maps/Waze on android auto, unless you care about Google/NSA knowing everything about you easily.
In 2016 I heard about self driving cars and we're still basically in the same spot with regards to that in most of the country because getting it 90% functional is easy, but the last few percent is difficult. Idk if it'll ever be useful in a place with snow but maybe there won't be snow in a few years.
I was mostly blown away by how newer phones have larger storage space. I just checked, and the model was actually released in 2017. So, I guess that's okay improvement in 6 years.
idk they used to do it to the Millenials too, and now it's probably mostly X'ers doing it.
I've got to say, it's legitimately hard to keep up with how technology is changing in use. Like my phone is five years old, I have absolutely no idea what modern phones are capable of. My car is five years old, I have no idea what kind of shit they shove in to new cars. At some point you hit a point where you aren't really buying new appliances and then someone's like "Yeah this one uses deep learning to burn frozen pizzas 15% faster" and I just have to be like "woah I had no idea".
Up until like 33 I felt, like I perceived myself as having, a pretty good idea of what was going on with consumer tech and shit. Now I just have no idea. Consumer technology? Manufacturing? Computer Science? Fuck if I lnow, it's currently 2017 and probably will be for the rest of my life. I just don't encounter new and changing stuff often enough to keep up to date and generally don't know what I'm behind on. Tiktok was kind of amazing when it worked because I actually could see young people talking about young people shit in young people language that I otherwise had no access to. But then the algorithms do their paperclip maximizing thing and you lose access even to that.
Eh phones haven't really changed that much in 5 years, mostly some gimmicky stuff and better cameras.
Was gonna comment some thing similar. I think consumer tech change has become very incremental and not exciting over the last decade
I was borrowing a family member's lincoln and had it yell at me that i left a child in the back seat. Looked back and the car reminded me i left my bottle of wine and redbull. Totally would have forgotten it there. New tech is weird.
Everything is basically the same consumer tech wise in cars and phones. New phones are more waterproof and have more cameras, that's about it.
New cars have android auto and apple car play, which is just a way to easily use apps while driving in a more legal way. At least owning a separate GPS is now pointless because google maps/Waze on android auto, unless you care about Google/NSA knowing everything about you easily.
In 2016 I heard about self driving cars and we're still basically in the same spot with regards to that in most of the country because getting it 90% functional is easy, but the last few percent is difficult. Idk if it'll ever be useful in a place with snow but maybe there won't be snow in a few years.
: p
I still need to tear the cellular transceiver and non-user-facing GPS out of my car. Pffft.
I was mostly blown away by how newer phones have larger storage space. I just checked, and the model was actually released in 2017. So, I guess that's okay improvement in 6 years.