Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it’s been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.
In the 00’s every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.
That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we’re well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.
At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don’t know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don’t look forward to hearing news about it. It’s sad, man. We’ve lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.
We’re at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don’t think most of us will like what the next era brings.
Old people can still go into the branch if that’s more their speed, assuming there are still any branches around. My credit union shut the local branch down and opened up some stupid branch that doesn’t even have cash on hand.
In theory, yes they can, in practice employees and elder people don’t work very well together, and these employers are there just for appearances.
And that’s why I don’t even nearly love how banking has changed. Cash is going away, the only private and widely accepted way to pay privately.
And the phone apps. Yeah, they work if you are running an approved OS. Debloated android? Linux phones? Forget about it, even if it would work, it will deny operation.