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Yesterday one of my coworkers mentioned that a lot of people in their 20s are into 90s stuff now, to an extent that our generation (people who grew up in the 90s) didn’t feel about prior decades. She posited that the idea behind it is “breaking free of technology” for a generation that never lived in a world without it.
I’m not close to many people in their 20s these days and I don’t use TikTak or any other social media, so I don’t know how accurate that is. But if that is the case, I can totally understand wanting to escape to a tech-free world.
Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they’ve grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.
Probably beating a dead horse here on Lemmy, but Linux genuinely gave me the joy of tech back. I spent about two hours last night setting up a VM running a headless factorio server, and every minute was fun… Well, maybe not fun, but engaging at least. I ran into like 2 hoops I had to jump through, had to tinker with my router settings, and had to modify some config files using a text editor in the console, and of course the directions were wrong/incomplete, so I had to do a little bit of reading to see exactly what needed to be done. Now I have a server for my friends and I to play on, I learned some new things, and I got more confident with some other things.
Also, if anyone is curious, dual core and 8GB RAM is absolutely overkill for a Factorio server VM. I’m using like 2GB max, and ~5% of a single processor under “load”.
In response to the last bit OP said.
Yesterday one of my coworkers mentioned that a lot of people in their 20s are into 90s stuff now, to an extent that our generation (people who grew up in the 90s) didn’t feel about prior decades. She posited that the idea behind it is “breaking free of technology” for a generation that never lived in a world without it.
I’m not close to many people in their 20s these days and I don’t use TikTak or any other social media, so I don’t know how accurate that is. But if that is the case, I can totally understand wanting to escape to a tech-free world.
Yeah I feel this even as a millennial. The tech we grew up with was exciting, constantly improving, generally not exploiting us, always getting cheaper. For gen z they’ve grown up when tech was abundant but always getting worse, more expensive and more exploitative.
Probably beating a dead horse here on Lemmy, but Linux genuinely gave me the joy of tech back. I spent about two hours last night setting up a VM running a headless factorio server, and every minute was fun… Well, maybe not fun, but engaging at least. I ran into like 2 hoops I had to jump through, had to tinker with my router settings, and had to modify some config files using a text editor in the console, and of course the directions were wrong/incomplete, so I had to do a little bit of reading to see exactly what needed to be done. Now I have a server for my friends and I to play on, I learned some new things, and I got more confident with some other things.
Also, if anyone is curious, dual core and 8GB RAM is absolutely overkill for a Factorio server VM. I’m using like 2GB max, and ~5% of a single processor under “load”.