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Social media is dying if you only include the subset of it that is at least somewhat social. That has been dying for a long time for many reasons like toxicity, rage bait, lynch mobs, spam, bots, and platform enshittification.

But those aren’t the biggest things that killed it. The biggest thing was losing the attention war to doom scrolling. That’s where everyone is now, at least online. They are scrolling.

TikTok, YouTube (esp shorts but increasingly all of it), Instagram, and so on.

They tend to be somewhat more practical and knowledgeable when it comes to pragmatic business and getting stuff done.

The stuff they want to get done might suck though.

They are complete imbeciles on many other issues.

That was COVID. Look at the last 30 years. Deficits have gone up faster under Republicans. Trump 2.0 doesn’t have any excuses.

I assume this is Euro centric? In the US it’s been the right that have spent like drunks.

My big fear about right wing politicians is corruption and authoritarian right assaults on women and minorities.

My big fear about left wing politicians is well intentioned stupidity.

Or the site being infested with bots and generally getting slowly shittier?

Everyone I know is holding off purchases of new PCs (including me) due to RAM costs and wanting more RAM.

Tangent but the fact that quen3.8 27B even places on these top rankings versus hundred B and T models is incredible.

It’s the crow of current LLMs: tiny brain, outsized performance.

Gemini tends to glaze you though. I now believe I’m a genius at pretty much everything after trying it a little.

TL;DR: what I got is that no they do not oppose technology per se, but they observe that how we use it is often very negative and destructive.

I can’t disagree with that part. We are a society full of angry unhappy people who like to break things. It’s deeply unhealthy.

Their view is that this grows out of our greed and imbalance, which demands eternal growth, which then when it runs into any limit reacts violently and aggressively.

This is where I stop entirely agreeing, though I don’t think it’s entirely wrong either. But I’d have to write a book for that.

In short I think there’s some truth here but there is also a lot more context and a lot more to it, and I’m not sure I come to exactly the same conclusions.

Nothing I love more than fingerprints on a laptop screen.

Useless feature for laptops unless it’s a flip around convertible or something.

Cloud equals not your computer, folks. Any cloud company can be legally subpoenaed and required to hand over any data they have, and they can also be legally gagged from telling anyone about it. Doesn't matter if they support it or not, they are a corporation subject to the laws of their jurisdiction and disobeying can expose the directors personally to civil or criminal penalties. Every corp will comply with a legal subpoena, and those are often easier to get than warrants.

For you they at least require a warrant. Usually. Unless you're crossing the border or are undocumented or something.

They might mean SSH TCP traffic logs, maybe?

Also SSH isn't a perfectly opaque protocol. There's stuff you can use to fingerprint e.g. client/server versions and often narrow it to architecture, OS, even OS version. That helps.

Prove me wrong then.

What's GenZ doing that is comparable to what any previous generation was doing in their 18-30 age bracket years artistically, musically, culturally, etc.?

I don't think it's their fault BTW. I think it's previous generations fault for creating the system that stole their attention. Every previous generation passed to the next generation a vocabulary and a set of tools to build new culture... until GenX and Millennials (my own cohorts) passed tools to stare at small rectangles and scroll.