/tech/ - Technology

Im trying to limit my online presence in normalfaggot websites. A lot of the things you mention Ive done my whole life, like the torrents and physical media bit (and for the little streaming Ive done, I ripped a lot of things), and this naturally leads to the next point - games offline. Media in general, really.

>limit yourself over my vague morals over technology
Lol. Using cheap shit is not a choice to most people.

>>27467
Let's not deceive ourselves. Most posters on this board aren't third world proles who got a ShengFui69+B through their call plan. They do have the choice to pay for a cheap mp3 player, a proper laptop and a landline plan instead of the newest iphone.

>>27446
Some of these are retarded.
Steam is 2000s tech. MP3 players are 2000s tech.
No internal batteries? The fuck do you mean? Your desktop has an internal battery (CMOS). The flip phones on your list have internal batteries.
If you are being really semantic, you should explicitly place a hard limit on the turn of the millennia tech and nothing after.
Even then, in my country flip phones from this era do not work a they have shut down those networks, and VOIP is the new standard for landlines.

roleplaying that you are in the 00's is just roleplay.
you could, instead, harness the healthy habits that the 00's forced us to have through limitation, and apply that to modern tech instead.

Also this seems to be purely roleplay, judging by your failure to even identify what tech actually existed in the year 2000.

>wired ethernet only
wifi was introduced in 1997. not having cables running through your entire house is also literally just a downgrade with no lifestyle improvement.
>handheld devices offline/limited internet
I think it's mostly just important to limit the type of internet access you utilize when out and about. Using handhelds to do the same things you might do on a laptop in the 00's is my personal usage philosophy; playing on the web on my phone is an activity for home, not for when im out and about. but if i need to use the internet while out and about, i have the ability.
>torrents and physical media no streaming
change this to "own your shit" and im on board. streaming is fine as long as you have a copy that you have control over. I stream 100% of my media from my PC, but everything I stream is indeed found on my PC.
>flip phone
optional. also overly limiting for your life. I suggest instead installing ways to limit a smart phone to make it inconvenient to use as a smart phone outside of important use cases. The way I do this is by using a more simple and less eye-candy launcher, such as niagara with no app icons, and only show important apps that I allow myself to get information from easily.
>internet limited to household
see >handheld devices offline
>video games backed up to hard drive offline no steam, ubisoft, etc
this one is stupid if you're not explicitly trying to prepare for these services going down.
while you should absolutely have everything you can backed up on your own storage device, games take up a huge amount of space. if i backed up all my games then i would have no room or all the other media i have archived. hell, i wouldnt even have room or all my games.
>videos, podcasts, etc stored for offline use
this wasn't even a thing in the 2000's. we watched videos online. downloading every video you watch on the internet was not a thing ever.
>use offline programs
im confused by this one the most. do you think we didn't have internet in the 2000s? are you some gen z kid trying to pull some "born in the wrong generation" bullshit?
>use a regular home phone
what the fuck? why would anybody want to get a home phone if they already have a cell phone? this is just a waste of money. the only reason people had home phones as well as cell phones in the 2000s is because it wasn't normalized for kids to have cell phones yet. it was for the kids who dont have phones, not for the parents who always have a phone with them. getting a home phone when you already have a cell phone is literally just burning money. pick one.
>music on a CD or desktop
again: we had other things in the 00's. the ipod was 2001.
>no internal battery shit
pic related dumbass




youre just trying to play pretend. if you actually wanted to improve your lifestyle through controlled technology usage then you'd be using your brain about it and not just making up complete fantasy about what the time was like because you were born in 2006.

>>29115
>im confused by this one the most. do you think we didn't have internet in the 2000s? are you some gen z kid trying to pull some "born in the wrong generation" bullshit?
He's talking about these retarded programs that require you to be connected to the company's servers to use them. The only way around it with popular commercial software would be to use older versions or pirated versions.

Can't ditch my smartphone because of fucking bank and government apps unfortunately. Otherwise I'd do it, or at least I'd stop paying for 5G.

>>29116
choosing to pay more and have less control for no reason is a personal choice and has nothing to do with the year

i have no fucking idea why anybody uses those options because they are objectively worse.

my bad, i didn't realize people would be so stupid that they would just use worse programs for no reason when good programs are easily accessible.

although, again, this was also still an issue back then. it was always an option to pay more for less, and it was always stupid to make that choice.

>>27446
Anon, you forgot the most important point in your list:
>56 kbps dial-up modem

>doesn't even include watching tv
Zoomerian hands wrote this

>>27446
Nobody who actually lived through the 2000s misses having shittier software and hardware.

>>29123
i lived through the 2000s

software was more shitty due to limitations, but the design philosophy was vastly better.

AIM is a shitty program by today's standards, but for communication it was indeed better. conversations felt more intentional. Connections to friends felt stronger. If you wanted to talk to someone you had to actually talk to them, you couldnt just post in a group chat hoping any old random person replies, you had to actually seek out and do what you want, rather than floundering in a metaphorical town square waiting for someone to notice you

skype was filled with ads and ran like shit, but it forced everyone to talk in the same space, which made conversations and communities feel more connected. groups weren't immediately split into several sub groups due to an abundance of hyper-specific channels, so people shared interests more often and formed closer friendships.

social media often came in the form of much smaller communities that shared more interests with little care for inflating their user counts arbitrarily

so like, no, i dont wanna go back to the shitty tech we had 20 years ago, but I do very strongly thing if we went back to the design philosophies we held 20 years ago then our tech would be vastly better, and i think if we even went back to those old shitty programs then we would be happier, depending on the software. the design philosophy was so much better that i think the use cases trump the archaic tech used to create them

>>29119
>i have no fucking idea why anybody uses those options because they are objectively worse.
Sometimes it be like that. I'll go for the pain of subscription and all that if I have to.

>>29130
no it do not be like that.
if you name literally anything you're paying a subscription or you i will give you a free or one-time-payment option (that you can probably pirate for free anyway)

you can do better and ill help you save every penny i can. fuck the tech bros that have convinced you that you shouldn't own your computer.

>>27446
Just get a dumbphone and if you live in an urban environments use library computers or internet cafes

More reactionary neo-Luddite garbage.
>wired ethernet only
WiFi was already a thing by the early 2000s.
>flip phone
<Implying flip phones aren't proprietary black boxes
>use a regular home phone
Landlines are a dying technology. They deserve to die, like all things that have outlived their usefulness.
>>29132
>Just get a dumbphone and if you live in an urban environments use library computers or internet cafes
Until a few years ago I used to live like that. Never again.

>>29134
I personally wanna make a flipphone just to see how much is actually needed to do that. I wanna know if SIM cards are comically overengineered or comically simple, it's gotta be one or the other.

I think visiting meatspin dot com when I was 13 is partially responsible for my obsession with big-dicc tgirls.

>>29115
You had to press SO FUCKING HARD on those battery things to get a percentage readout, if the thing worked at all.

yeah i already do all this except i just dont have a phone at all

>>29136
God has a plan for all of us.