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It goes without saying, DVDs/BlueRays.

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[โ€“] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[โ€“] lorty@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Funnily enough I recently had to disable ipv4 in a game because of connection issues.

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[โ€“] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 day ago

I feel like DVDs/Blurays already disappeared 10 years ago and are now making a comeback. Same for CDs. Streaming services don't let you own anything, and if they pull something down, you're SOL. Self hosting Plex and ripping my own disks has given me a level of freedom not possible with netflix et. al. Especially since DVDs are considered garbage to most people now, you can set up your own streaming service for you and your friends and family for cheap. No piracy necessary.

[โ€“] Wazowski@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The way shit is headed, probably vaccines.

[โ€“] DandomRude@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Hopefully fax machines, but these things seem incapable of dying.

[โ€“] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

Unless you're trying to use one. Then they're always broken.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i havent seen one in years

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[โ€“] Coding4Fun@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

Social media as we know.

[โ€“] koper 53 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not disappear entirely, but most households won't own desktop computers or HDDs.

[โ€“] huquad@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As a homelabber, this makes me sad. Perhaps enshittification will push people back into home/local computing.

I would hope, but on the whole you'd almost think they deliberately purged home computing from the mainstream consciousness, with how tragically ignorant the average person is about anything that isn't a little poke-driven rectangle that screams at you all day.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

homelabbing isnt even my gripe with it. its not ever interacting with computers on your own terms, only on theirs. smartphones are a black box.

i see ads, artificial annoyances, and human right violations by technology increasing in lockstep with the reduction of our collective control over computing.

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree. I'm also very sad when I see small kids watching YouTube videos on tablets; that's pretty much all they do.

Where's the fun of tinkering? Trying to build things? Trying fixing problems, such as formatting?

Kids don't even have the concept of files and folders. We're raising a generation of digital slaves.

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[โ€“] synapse1278@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Most people connected to the Internet today have never owned a desktop computer nor an HDD. A crazy amount of people have been introduced to computing with smartphones.

[โ€“] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] MisterD@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

YES, In the USA (United Slaves of America.)

[โ€“] narr1@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Social security and pensions I think.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't know of any millennial or younger who assumes there will be a safety net for them at the end of the road. We just don't trust those in charge to keep it. I'll fight for it, I paid into it and I want others to have it, but I can't bank on it either

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[โ€“] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Bluerays will still exist because of japanese laws. How am I supposed to get my anime without dimming if I don't pirate bluerays?

anime without dimming

So that's the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.

[โ€“] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[โ€“] BussyCat@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

We call it AI now but machine learning algorithms have been around for 70 years now and basically run the world

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