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> the new generation has been brainwashed or trained out of storing their own files. It has very little to do with this and more just about the ubiquitous avai
by petcat 12d ago
> the new generation has been brainwashed or trained out of storing their own files.
It has very little to do with this and more just about the ubiquitous availability of 5G and always-available streaming.
I stopped caring about data hoarding once I could just access anything I wanted reliably wherever I was.
- hedora 12d agoStreaming is getting worse fast. I basically just pay for curation, and AI slop is creating cracks in that model. Some of the musicians I like are getting crushed by sybil style attacks, where there are 10 new albums in their artist page, but only one is theirs. Fortunately, sending a screenshot to Claude tells me what to push in a minute or so, but, unfortunately, I can’t just hand it an API endpoint and have it scrub all this crap weekly. (No idea why the streaming service can’t just do that themselves, of course…) Of course, for movies, it’s gotten to the point where I just drive to the used DVD store. $1-5 per movie used (including blurays); $20-30 new. I usually walk out with a dozen or so films for $100. This is easier than tpb.
- noduerme 11d agono, the ubiquity of 5G is what allowed you to be brainwashed into not storing your own files and using cloud storage or streaming for everything. It's kind of like water, food or electricity. You probably don't own a generator, don't keep lots of water or food stores in case things go down for awhile. You assume things will always work. Storage is dirt cheap insurance. 5G is a luxury that can go away at any moment, and doesn't exist on large parts of the planet. Even if it does, they can just remove something you "own" from your library.