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[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

Goddamn I'm not that elder! But also true

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I understand crypto... and it is utter shit.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

People used to enjoy anime and MST3k episodes on fifth generation VHS copies. Crypto is worse than that.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 8 minutes ago

You know why vhs quality degraded with every generation of copy? It wasn't an accident or a technical problem, it was deliberate.

They want to discourge people from copying their tapes, so there was a mechanism in the VCR to actually cause some drop in quality when you taped something.

This is why TV tapings of a movie would never be as good as buying/renting the same movie from a store. Even if you used a virgin tape.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

MST3K was great, and anime is good.

[–] booganiganie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

1990 time for Guru

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

i remember standing in line for dvds. we were hacking regionlocked discs before nft was just a scammer's wet dream. we were moulded by early modern technology.

[–] centipede_powder@lemmy.world 23 points 6 hours ago

Crypto? Yes, I know what a pyrimid scheme is.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Who is expecting them to understand cryptography?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

A yes the RS encryption, public key, private key ...

I vaguely remember

[–] branno@lemm.ee 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
  1. Fuck you
  2. Who the fuck do you think you are?
  3. crypto is a fucking scam
[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

Crypto isn't a scam. It's a fantastic way to protect yourself online and HTTPS has been a game changer. Crypto currency is a scam though.

[–] alkbch@lemmy.ml 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

So people who 35years old are elder now.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm 37, I'm not old!

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 55 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

By someone old enough to not just be a dad, but identify so much that it's their username. Fuck this kid. I'm not old. Just getting fat, bald, slow, dumb.. oh wait.. maybe they're into something 🥹 😭

[–] MasterNerd@lemm.ee 8 points 12 hours ago

Your elders refers to people older than you, not necessarily elderly people

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Dispense your wisdom, o my elder. I'm just a nineties boy, what do I know of the world before ?

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I was born i 85. Not much more wisdom I can give I'm afraid. I am a tech early adopter and a coder so I understand crypto it's just too volatile a market for me to care about. Wish I had invested in Bitcoin when someone asked me if I wanted to in 2012 though. Mostly my driving force for new tech adoption was my gaming habit. I had a colecovision, NES, Genesis, Playstation, Playstation 2, and all the systems from the next gen onward once I had job money.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Fr. I just turned 40. Give me my senior discount card.

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeha I turn 40 at the end of the year. Over the hill buddies.

[–] randoogle@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The shift was 9/11 happening and everything that happened after.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

For the US maybe. For my area it was the Russians finally going home and now they want to come back

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 22 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Before 1990?… fuck you.. I have kids born before 1990… elder my ass … I probably understand crypto better than you do…

I’m not bitter. Not at all.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

...Dad? Haha I'm about to hit 40 and shitcoins are my brainy boomer dad's hobby.

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[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 44 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.

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[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 15 points 12 hours ago

SMH. Dear boy. We elders were taking it to the streets in the 60’s and 70’s—in huge numbers. We organized without social media, were willing to face danger and arrest, and got shit done. We were using DOS before you were probably even born (do you know what that is?). While many of us are, in fact, fading, there are legions of us with knowledge and experience you will never understand until YOU are an elder.

[–] 1984 59 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I got to be alive before mobile phones and social media.

Worth it!

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 34 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I am immeasurably grateful that the entirety of my youth is not on record.

[–] tinyvoltron@discuss.online 6 points 13 hours ago

Right? AFAIK there's about 5 pictures of me between the ages of 8 and 25. A couple of those are driver's licenses.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 17 points 15 hours ago

I seriously wonder how much brain damage I avoided by squeaking in my teenage years before the invention of smart phones.

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago

Honestly I understand better now why old people complained about computers so much. We don't even know what we lost.

[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago

I feel like its an advantage to know the analog way to do things in addition to the current norms. For example, navigating by paper map and direction of the sun, like some kind of land pirate.

[–] oakey66@lemmy.world 130 points 20 hours ago (32 children)

I understand that crypto is a scam that will rob millions of people of money they desperately need.

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[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 15 hours ago

FUCK YOU! I understand crypto and STILL have a VHS tape I never returned. pfft. arrogant youth. now where do i push to send this to reddit?

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Crypto is an EMP away from being worthless

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 19 points 17 hours ago

Listen here you little shit: you think you’re superior because you rebranded Ponzi schemes with AI merde?

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 15 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

I was born in 1983 and I’m old enough to remember having only 5 tv channels, vcr’s, and you couldn’t get on the internet if your mom was in the phone.

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[–] Stepskippin@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

Y'all don't understand. We had to learn you don't have to rewind DVDs before returning them. It was stressful.

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