Comments by "DefaultFlame" (@DefaultFlame) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. I have two of these lanterns. One is intended more for decoration but is still functional, the other is less decorative, more sturdy in construction, and in general more practical. I have them because I have a liking for archaic lighting, among other archaic things.
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  2. Yup.
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  3. 37, and I feel the same way. I thought this was common knowledge. Might be a US thing, since Apple products never penetrated anywhere near as much anywhere else in the world and subsequently ipods never became the ubiquitous phenomenon it did in the US.
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  4. My microwave is roughly 30 years old. It does not have a spinning plate. It used to be my grandma's. It works just fine still.
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  5. Brown and purple, partners in non-existence.
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  6. Yup. Even more so outside the US where the iphone/ipod never penetrated anywhere as much. This was pretty common knowledge.
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  7. I don't think ionization alarms are legal here in Sweden.
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  8. "And, at the time, I imagine it felt like a miracle." As someone who was in their early- and mid-teens in the 90s I can tell you that it didn't feel like a miracle. These sorts of strides every couple years felt completely ordinary. We were used to every advancement moving at lightning speed when it came to tech, especially computer tech. Today it feels almost sloth-like, with everything taking years to progress noticably instead of months. The "extraordinary" rise of smartphones from the late 2000s/early2010s to today feels like it would have taken the equivalent of two or three years in the 90s, rather than the decade and a half it has actually taken. I remind you that this was when Moore's Law was treated as seriously as an actual law of physics and not just the speculation of a computer scientist observing trends in the 60s. (For good reason, it had held up for 30+ years.) You can't say anymore, without being laughed out, at any serious assembly computer scientists that transistor count will double in two years and prices will halve. It's still fast, but it's estimated to be every third year now, which is a slowdown of 50%. It is very much noticable for those of us who lived through the beginning of the end of the golden age of computing. Edit: Here I am asuming that you're a few years younger than me when that might not be the case. We might be the exact same age, though you have like 50% more hair than me (early male pattern balding is a bitch). Still, from what you are saying you seem to be 3-5 years younger than me when it comes to computer competence and general knowledge in the 90s, so I'm making an educated guess that you're not 37 like me.
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  9. Yup.
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  10. I remember those.
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  11. . . . I suppose at 37 I count as an old curmudgeon stuck in his ways, because everything in this video is a foreign problem to me. Very rarely do I click on something in the recommended on youtube, and when I do it's because that specific video interests me. Rarely but sometimes that leads me to finding a new creator to subscribe to. Autoplay is the first thing I turn off as I despise it. And the following feed on youtube? I don't use that newfangled sidebar thing, I think about what I want to watch or a creator that I want to check if they've uploaded something new and I type their name into the search bar (assuming I haven't seen the upload in the notifications). Edit: Right, I forgot the homepage exists. I very rarely go there. Also, where in the traffic statistics at 21:40 does notification click through end up? That's like 60% of the videos I watch. I do despise the concept of feeds in general however. Loathe them. Where are my god damn page numbers? I want to be able to select the page to jump to, I utterly despise having to scroll, wait for it to load, scroll, wait for it to load, scroll, wait for it to load every god damned thing in the feed when I should just be able to skip around instead. Also, twitter used to work the way you describe but hasn't for more than a year. There's a "Following" feed right next to the "For You" feed, and whichever one you last selected is the one it will open to. I almost never use "For You." As for recommending BlueSky 🤮🤮🤮 I despise echo chambers like BlueSky, Mastodon and Reddit. I prefer honest disagreement over yes men that always agree on everything. Hell, I'd rather use the cesspool of 4chan as a replacement for social media than lock myself in an echo chamber like BlueSky. Edit: Waaaait . . . you take the stupid 51st state joke seriously? Are you for real?! Duuuude, I know you have a brain and can think critically. Use it to judge what is obviously a dumb joke that keeps being repeated because it's funny, and what is serious. Please, for your own peace of mind and sanity if nothing else.
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