Totally. Ive noticed a pattern with these kooks (much like fox news viewers) they almost always have no control over their life and very little money. So they turn to conspiracies and being a victim so to them their life situation makes sense.

For some reason thats always how it is.

Let me guess, its Pelosi and Biden that run the illuminati right? Maybe Obama?

These people will believe batshit insane stuff like this but refuse to believe billionaires are running the world and destroying life for all of us. The disconnect is concerning.

Ok but hear me out. I get laughed at for this, but I do think the moon is pretty hollow. The Apollo astronauts are on record saying it rang like a bell when they landed on it.

I dont think its that crazy that the moon is very cavernous and hollow compared to earth. Now, aliens dont live inside it I dont think, but thats another theory haha!

No. I know people like this irl.

Not the exact belief, but insane nonetheless. Usually they get all their news from fb and xitter. And theyre always smarter than scientists despite not finishing hs or college (not that one needs to do those things to be smart, but just saying as a rule…)

Do not let your friend near any literature written by L Ron Hubbard.

Off his rocker.

Awesome! I have tony hawk but haven’t heard of the other.

Don’t worry, I have so many games and I suck at all of them lol, just never was very good!

Rofl and im still on an amd fx!! Works fine for me. Only cant play alan wake 2 because of missing cpu instructions.

Does traveling make you happy?

Hiking to a clear mountain view is one great way to start feeling better

Or idk, buy a sweet car and rent a circuit track to race it on. Maybe you’ll meet friends. Thats what id do.

Well id plan a little bit for things to go to shit, but also have some fun. This world won’t last and we could be in ww3 tomorrow or wiped out by a global disease next year.

If that doesnt happen, you should buy some assets like a paid off house so when the economy crashes you won’t be homeless. Money don’t mean shit when a wheelbarrow of dollar bills buys you 1 potato.

Or Thunderbird, I use that with my yahoo email ive had for 20 years. I cant get rid of it at this point ha

Thats great to hear!! I did have to replace my laser but thats it.

What games have you been playin?

Gotcha

Im pretty sure the Index works great with Linux right?

Meta headsets are largely shit. I have a quest 2 and I got sick of how invasive and maliciously coded it was so it just sits now. I dont need zucc seeing inside my house.

True, until its illegal to use your own hardware and you are required to log into bezosnet from your Amazon issued mandatory dumb terminal (which must always be on and internet connected with camera, basically like alexa that idiots have in their homes).

OP has a right to be un trusting. Im damn glad im not any younger. If I were id be learning everything I can about using open source software and cyber security. Also its proven already that we are being recorded and monitored 24/7 from our smartphones, unless you have a graphene phone.

I grew up with all that old tech and it was still more robust. You could repair it. Best part: tech bros didnt control your life and embed ads into your fridge.

You cant repair shit now. And even if you can The code is locked down so hard it will take a shut in in Russia 13 years to hack it.

Analog tape is STILL the highest quality and longest lasting medium for audio. They are still making remastered off 70 year old tapes. Granted, those are fragile around magnets, but so are hdds. But also, even if a tape gets near a magnet, its not deleted. It merely may erase the high frequencies unless you use a bulk eraser magnet. After that, vinyl lasts literally forever, though it degrades as you play it. Cds do get bit rot if stored wrong.

Micro sd cards and ssds die at a milliseconds notice. Ive had tons of them just be dead after a year of sitting. Same with doa hdds, ive gotten more than 10 in the last couple years.

Now typewriters, all mechanical ones weren’t great, but an electric typewriter is the shit. Fast, loud, un corruptible offline writing. I myself would still just opt for a non internet connected linux laptop with auto backup for writing though.

Oh buddy, this is basically my worldview.

I have shelves of vhs tapes and dvds. Almost every common game console since 1975 and the games. 200 records, around 50 reel to reel tape, 250+ cds. I am all about real and authentic. Especially since today everything has been cheapened, strip mined, and sold for parts.

If its not physical, you dont own it (hard drives full of stuff counts too of course but its not quite the same).

I find that people only think its good when using it for something they dont already know, so then they believe everything it says. Catch 22. When they use it for something they already know, its very easy to see how it lies and makes up shit because its a markov chain on steroids and is not impressive in any way. Those billions could have housed and fed every human in a starving country but instead we have the digital equivalent of funko pop minions.

I also find in daily life those who use it and brag about it are 95% of the time the most unintelligent people i know.

Note this doesnt apply to machine learning.

Would a bot go jqirufinwksppcp

Jokes on you, I surround myself with nostalgia all the time for this very purpose ha! I still dont really remember my childhood clearly but I recall how those old video games made me feel.