The thread traces the shift from companies selling creative technology you own to extracting information on an industrial scale through subscription lock-in and mass surveillance. Sony's physical media announcement repeats "as consumer preferences change" four times -- framing technological determinism as inevitable when users still have free will choice. The author calls for withdrawing time and money from the system: support older technology you can maintain or new stuff built like the old stuff was, and the marketplace built on profiling you will seize.
I built my computer from scratch 13 years ago. I have thousands of records, cassettes, 8-tracks, reel-to-reel tapes, CDs, and all of the equipment to play them and record them onto the computer. I also have a library of DVDs and Blu-rays and the ability to rip them onto the computer. I have a huge library of real hard copy books, "library" meaning over 1,000 volumes.
I have spindles of blank CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs so I can always burn copies for others if necessary in the future.
BTW, the non-ownership of media started with the very first phonograph records. They have notices, from over 100 years ago, stating that all you own is a license to play the record at home. The record company still owns the physical record, and you're not allowed to play it anywhere else, especially on the radio. My oldest records are from 1903.
Besides the physical copies, which I'll always keep, I have digital files. I have over a million music files (some are duplicates), and over 100,000 books, magazines, and comic books on the computer. I have tens of thousands of old time radio shows, old TV shows, and old movies that I have downloaded from Usenet over the past 30 years.
Everyone should buy extra equipment today while it's still available. I can still play every media source I've ever owned, even VHS tapes.
Kudos to you my fren! Most of us don’t have the time, energy or smarts to do all of that. But, I do have a large library of DVDs and BlueRay movies. I may purchase another player in case my current one goes down at some point.
Buy soon, as some major manufacturers have already stopped making new players.
You might want to rip things to M-DISC, which is claimed to last up to 1,000 years. I have some, but they are expensive. Right now, I keep everything on hard drives with backups and replace the hard drives before they fail. I keep all the old hard drives just in case. The oldest one I have that still works perfectly is from 1998.
Since we moved away from the UK to a much smaller house, I scanned whatever I could (letters, books, magazines) and copied the rest (music, videos) onto Hard Drives. I brought a VHS player but it broke and I have no tapes anyway.
I resist the trend to make software subscription only so I have several models of Apple Macs (laptops to save space) which I still use to run old software. So far my 2017 MacBook Pro runs later software OK.
I make lots of backups and put the HDDs into storage after 5 years. So far (17 years) I haven't had any fail in storage. I'm worried about SSDs because I read that they have to be "refreshed" every year or two.
M-Disc sounds good but do they make 4TB versions? I suspect not. Last time I looked the had the same capacity as DVDs - about 4.5 GB I think?
BEING a "TECHNOLOGIST" that has dealt with this sort of "stuff" I do my own thang...I have NOT bought a computer in quite awhile. I am in the process of building my OWN SERVER w/SERVER BOARD and have the "EXPERTICE" to do it. The last build I did lasted over 10 years and was still using Windows Server 2008. Now I'm onto the latest...
What we have lost is the "ABILITY" to think for ourselves and to do research and see WHAT we can do...the "CAN DO" attitude is what is missing and we are worse off by watching the damn tube and clicking through all the adds on web-pages!!!!
NOTE: FOR ANY BROWSER: Get an Ad Remover, Bitdefender Anti-Tracker ('nough said), uBlock Origin-PREVENTS TRACKING ACROSS WEBSITES.
NOTE: I DO NOT WATCH TV DURING THE DAY (RETIRED) AND watch ONLY 1hr a night to put my brain asleep!!! Last night, I fell asleep with the remote in the bed with me and the TV was turned OFF!!!!!
IF anyone has any advice or there are others on the board that can help you and do it for free.
Funny how the XP boxes I built over 20 years ago to run specialized hardware, are still running perfectly...
No updates, no Internet, no bullshit! They just work as designed.
Now look... Every 10 minutes you need a Windows update.
Old people: Want to get Win11 to function & menu structure more like XP/Win7? Get the free OpenShell program. Want to stop Windows updates from doing whatever, whenever it wants? Want to prevent it from forcing you to use the newest drivers or dumping a load of apps on your machine you'll never use? Lock it down with WinAeroTweaker - also free. I run both on every PC. I do what I want, whenever I want...
Bonus: Tired of watching rumble, Bitchute or YT ads on EVERY video? Are ads in the middle of videos getting on your last nerve? Install Brave and the uBlockOrigin Lite plugin and never watch another one ever again. Want ad free prime videos without paying extra now? Use Edge browser with uBO Lite plugin... and see Zero commercials EVER.
OR... Don't do any of that and continue to sit through retarded commercials selling pharmaceuticals, warnings about not drinking warm water before bed, and other nonsense contributing to brain rot.
At a Sony store around 2015 at a mall, a tall guy with a voice that carried throughout the store “exclaimed so everybody could hear, “Does anybody here know if there is anything sold here that isn’t crap?!”
The Sony store soon closed. Sony did go on to make really good “G” lenses, and implemented great autofocus into their digital cameras. But each major camera manufacturer has its + & minuses, never a perfect camera!
The thread traces the shift from companies selling creative technology you own to extracting information on an industrial scale through subscription lock-in and mass surveillance. Sony's physical media announcement repeats "as consumer preferences change" four times -- framing technological determinism as inevitable when users still have free will choice. The author calls for withdrawing time and money from the system: support older technology you can maintain or new stuff built like the old stuff was, and the marketplace built on profiling you will seize.
SOURCE: https://x.com/neonarcadegrant/status/2073135277149708548 SOURCE (mirror): https://xcancel.com/neonarcadegrant/status/2073135277149708548
Ignorance of what's possible is largely contributing to the capture of new generations into this unfriendly landscape.
I built my computer from scratch 13 years ago. I have thousands of records, cassettes, 8-tracks, reel-to-reel tapes, CDs, and all of the equipment to play them and record them onto the computer. I also have a library of DVDs and Blu-rays and the ability to rip them onto the computer. I have a huge library of real hard copy books, "library" meaning over 1,000 volumes.
I have spindles of blank CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs so I can always burn copies for others if necessary in the future.
BTW, the non-ownership of media started with the very first phonograph records. They have notices, from over 100 years ago, stating that all you own is a license to play the record at home. The record company still owns the physical record, and you're not allowed to play it anywhere else, especially on the radio. My oldest records are from 1903.
Besides the physical copies, which I'll always keep, I have digital files. I have over a million music files (some are duplicates), and over 100,000 books, magazines, and comic books on the computer. I have tens of thousands of old time radio shows, old TV shows, and old movies that I have downloaded from Usenet over the past 30 years.
Everyone should buy extra equipment today while it's still available. I can still play every media source I've ever owned, even VHS tapes.
Kudos to you my fren! Most of us don’t have the time, energy or smarts to do all of that. But, I do have a large library of DVDs and BlueRay movies. I may purchase another player in case my current one goes down at some point.
Buy soon, as some major manufacturers have already stopped making new players.
You might want to rip things to M-DISC, which is claimed to last up to 1,000 years. I have some, but they are expensive. Right now, I keep everything on hard drives with backups and replace the hard drives before they fail. I keep all the old hard drives just in case. The oldest one I have that still works perfectly is from 1998.
Since we moved away from the UK to a much smaller house, I scanned whatever I could (letters, books, magazines) and copied the rest (music, videos) onto Hard Drives. I brought a VHS player but it broke and I have no tapes anyway.
I resist the trend to make software subscription only so I have several models of Apple Macs (laptops to save space) which I still use to run old software. So far my 2017 MacBook Pro runs later software OK.
I make lots of backups and put the HDDs into storage after 5 years. So far (17 years) I haven't had any fail in storage. I'm worried about SSDs because I read that they have to be "refreshed" every year or two.
M-Disc sounds good but do they make 4TB versions? I suspect not. Last time I looked the had the same capacity as DVDs - about 4.5 GB I think?
BEING a "TECHNOLOGIST" that has dealt with this sort of "stuff" I do my own thang...I have NOT bought a computer in quite awhile. I am in the process of building my OWN SERVER w/SERVER BOARD and have the "EXPERTICE" to do it. The last build I did lasted over 10 years and was still using Windows Server 2008. Now I'm onto the latest...
What we have lost is the "ABILITY" to think for ourselves and to do research and see WHAT we can do...the "CAN DO" attitude is what is missing and we are worse off by watching the damn tube and clicking through all the adds on web-pages!!!!
NOTE: FOR ANY BROWSER: Get an Ad Remover, Bitdefender Anti-Tracker ('nough said), uBlock Origin-PREVENTS TRACKING ACROSS WEBSITES.
NOTE: I DO NOT WATCH TV DURING THE DAY (RETIRED) AND watch ONLY 1hr a night to put my brain asleep!!! Last night, I fell asleep with the remote in the bed with me and the TV was turned OFF!!!!!
IF anyone has any advice or there are others on the board that can help you and do it for free.
YA'LL, HAVE A WONDERFUL 4TH OF JULY...
I haven't owned a TV for about 15 years. Magnesium glycinate and L-Taurine help me sleep.
Funny how the XP boxes I built over 20 years ago to run specialized hardware, are still running perfectly...
No updates, no Internet, no bullshit! They just work as designed.
Now look... Every 10 minutes you need a Windows update.
Old people: Want to get Win11 to function & menu structure more like XP/Win7? Get the free OpenShell program. Want to stop Windows updates from doing whatever, whenever it wants? Want to prevent it from forcing you to use the newest drivers or dumping a load of apps on your machine you'll never use? Lock it down with WinAeroTweaker - also free. I run both on every PC. I do what I want, whenever I want...
Bonus: Tired of watching rumble, Bitchute or YT ads on EVERY video? Are ads in the middle of videos getting on your last nerve? Install Brave and the uBlockOrigin Lite plugin and never watch another one ever again. Want ad free prime videos without paying extra now? Use Edge browser with uBO Lite plugin... and see Zero commercials EVER.
OR... Don't do any of that and continue to sit through retarded commercials selling pharmaceuticals, warnings about not drinking warm water before bed, and other nonsense contributing to brain rot.
u/#catdance
good to know the corporate mindset!
At a Sony store around 2015 at a mall, a tall guy with a voice that carried throughout the store “exclaimed so everybody could hear, “Does anybody here know if there is anything sold here that isn’t crap?!”
The Sony store soon closed. Sony did go on to make really good “G” lenses, and implemented great autofocus into their digital cameras. But each major camera manufacturer has its + & minuses, never a perfect camera!
meh I don't think it's that deep in this case:
without physical disks, there is less resale ability and more control and it costs less to not manufacture physical media
I bet the same people complaining about this switched from using Rand Mcnally to Google without question. Double standards are everywhere these days.