What do you call the phenomenon of people buying old tech because they couldn't afford it when they were younger?
>>108572946you mean like crt retards?>inb4 n-no not like that!lmoa
I call it none of your fucking business, faggot.
>>108572980>random thread asking a non-personal question>nerve status: touched
>>108572946FOMO
>>108572946its called achieving a childhood dream. why are you an idiot?
>>108572946>The economy is so shit that a midlife "crisis" has gone from buying a sportscar or a boat, to a 20 yo laptop.
>>108572959>you mean like crt retards?there are people who buy CRTs nowadays who never had one as a kid? inconceivable
>>108572946I have one of those, they were nice little linux boxes back then, way back before arch even switched to systemd.
>>108572946"Meeting childhood heroes"Why would it need a name.
>>108572946Preservationists.
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>>108573087>>108573134It's definitely a type of midlife crisis. I think that a MLC has always been the otehr side of FOMO, it's once you have missed out, that feeling of loss because you desired something so strongly that it's driving you mad. You were too poor, too isolated, too whatever, and now you want to consider yourself a "tech guy" or a "preservationist" but that's all just cope. You haven't played any of the copies of pokemon you've bought. You haven't turned on any of those retro consoles you modded to have bluetooth wifi and built-in copy of every game. That palm pilot isn't your EDC. Because lets face it, you no longer get joy out of novel videogames, you no longer need that outdated tech, The tape player, the cd player, the record player, the massive collection of physical media, all takes a back seat to a smart phone and a modern TV. That's why you see guys with rooms filled with games, fairy lights, pokemon wallpaper, because the world is cruel and you've been tortured into submission.You never play those retro games because you can't admit you don't like games anymore. But gaming is your whole life, your whole identity, and no one loves you so you have to keep going. God forbid you just sell off your useless stuff, find a hobby that isn't just spending all your money on consumer goods (from this century or otherwise) and actually work to improve yourself as a person.You thought, but no you didn't think at all, you assumed that having a massive collection of 1980s tech and 1990s games and 2000s junk would make you as happy as when you were 10 and got your first tamagachi, but it hasn't. And you assume all you need is one more piece of stuff. You cope and call it all sorts of things, and you still get the rush when you buy it. But you'll never tell anyone how the disappointment sets in, how a day later you realize you'll never need this at all.I bet the thing that hurts the most is the second controller on your retro modded consoles.
>>108572946Waitfags finally winning
>>108574383thanks, i could never find this pasta
>>108574423it's not pasta you stupid faggot I just made it up
>>108574383>20yos having a midlife crisisThis board is 45iq
>>108574479Life expectancy has declined
>>108574436>it's not pasta you stupid faggot I just made it upsir would you be so kind as to take your meds
>>108572946Netbooks were ahead of their time and never should have gone away. With modern low draw CPUs, (previously) cheap RAM, faster network speeds, and cloud computing, the late 2010s/early 2020s should have been a golden age for them.Now, we are putting what should be netbook architecture into large laptops...just because.
>>108574533>Netbooks were ahead of their time and never should have gone awayone crucial flaw: storage. most of them with dogshit emmc and even 2.5" shitter driveswith ssd's they would have never died off
>>108572946I did that like 10 years ago. Phycologists have some obscure Jewish sounding word for that, aparently.You just get what you wanted for a long time. Feel good about it. Move on. Forget about it.>>108573122Probably this. Not sure if that hapens with adults, unless they become filthy rich overnight or smth.
>>108572946it is not real they might buy better opirel or gerber stiletto but thats about it
>>108572946consumerism, generallyit's a wide umbrella but I don't see why you'd need to be any more specific than that
>>108572946I call it being me. Also who couldn't afford a netbook when they were new?
>>108574383>It's definitely a type of midlife crisislol fuck this is sad. imagine one generation ago people were buying cars. now the best they can do is old fucking LEGO versions of gameboy.
>>108575561Man, I miss old tech.wish I grew up in the early 90s late 80s
>>108574518where exactly this is? some fucking bot just picked up my post and reposting it god knows where ten times and you make that out to be proof it's a copy pasta, this is some seriously dystopian shit where anything you write is copied and vomited by bots so fast people think the original is a copy
>>108574518stupid faggot can't even post a link to his AI generated bullshit archive
>>108572946you call it nostalgia I bought a GPS they used in Top Gear Bolivia Special, in 2007 i didnt know it existed, but got it almost brand new.
>>108572946being a third worlder
>>108576117bro calm down and stay on topic
>>108572946I'm always buying older tech because it's still capable of doing modern shit for cheap. Everyone just thinks it's slow because each version of Windows is heavier.
>>108572946Couldn't afford what? These were under 200 euro.
>>108572946holy shit my father still owns one of these I think. I even tried reviving it with an ssd once before giving up and buying an used thinkpad on ebay
Third worlders
>>108575634>lol fuck this is sad. imagine one generation ago people were buying cars.Cars and motorcycles are just as useless and perhaps and even bigger pain in the ass to restore and maintain. Where the hell are you going to go in your vintage 1970s Fiat X1/9 with poor fuel economy, the racetrack? Those people buy them because that's what they would swoon over as kids, they had posters of these vehicles, they would be featured in popular TV shows and everything. More recent generations had electronics to dream about. It's that simple.I have a small collection of old personal computers from the 1980s, but mainly because it's stuff from before my time and it's weird enough to be interesting. Once i collected what i was interested in i just stopped buying this stuff.
>>108572959I had a CRT tv and it looked like absolute shit, didn't do scart/rgb and the shell was broken and covered in shitty stickers my older brother put on itI still bought a CRT monitor despite that though because you can (or at least could) get high end ones for like $40 off fb marketplace and at that price range they're unparalleled for 4:3 media and input lagOld tech in very specific situations can be better or at the very least offer a unique experience to modern tech. Most of it's still shit but the good stuff is often better in some metric to the average modern equivalent and can be gotten much cheaper, obvious example OLED>CRT>LCD
>>108577757>I had a CRT tv and it looked like absolute shit, didn't do scart/rgb and the shell was broken and covered in shitty stickers my older brother put on itif it's at least new enough to have an OSD and/or Teletext (i.e. it's capable of overlaying channel numbers, volume indicators, etc) then you can hack in RGB, since the chip that generates the OSD is outputting RGB and interrupting the signal to display those graphics. you will lose the OSD when using RGB this way of course. i haven't looked into s-video hacks but i would imagine you could do this on most if not all composite-capable televisions, since all s-video is is composite before the luma/chroma is combined, so if the tv circuitry isn't hugely integrated, there might be a spot after the composite is split into what is effectively s-video which you can tap into.>if you can do this why did only some tv's have these inputsmarket segregation, they wanted you to pay extra for those
>>108573164>They were terrible pieces of shits that were completely useless except for running a linux terminal
