I understand that crypto is a scam that will rob millions of people of money they desperately need.

I got to be alive before mobile phones and social media.

Worth it!

Fuck, I'm considered an ELDER now?

The real brain melter was the societal culture shift.

I grew up witnessing "the end of history" with my own eyes. People were getting wiser and kinder year after year, decade after decade. It was like a feedback loop of positive changes, the only way was up.

Then 2010s hit and I'm still processing the 180 degrees shift. I read dozens of books about nazis, authoritarianism, societal memory, cults, fucking roman empire. But I still have cognitive dissonance every time I open news feed.

To be fair, us elders had grifts and money laundering too, so crypto is nothing functionally new.

Why you gotta do me dirty like that?

It’s not that brain-melting. Taken one day at a time, the shift was very gradual.

As an elder millennial, I respect gen z and alpha for coping with modern society. It may just be a fond remembrance, but things seemed much simpler then. Creative jobs weren't threatened by AI, the tech didn't exist for corporations to spy on people, the US.. well let's not get into that.

I at least got to experience a decent time in history and built up enough context where I understand what is going on in the world today. That of course leads to irreconcilable sadness with where things are going, but at least I got to experience a wild culture shift.

It's not "brain melting". Even watching the internet go from "this is super neat, and way cool" (For nerds) to "Well, it's ALL going through enshittification now" wasn't "brain melting", it's just what happens under capitalism.

Crypto? Yes, I know what a pyrimid scheme is.

So people who 35years old are elder now.

Crypto is an EMP away from being worthless

Crap. I'm an elder now?

elders

1990

1. Fuck you
2. Who the fuck do you think you are?
3. crypto is a fucking scam

Before 1990?… fuck you.. I have kids born before 1990… elder my ass … I probably understand crypto better than you do…

I’m not bitter. Not at all.

I don’t expect them to understand crypto. No one expects them to understand crypto.

I expect them to understand FUCKING FASCISM.

Listen here you little shit: you think you’re superior because you rebranded Ponzi schemes with AI merde?

Nobody is expected to understand crypto. Same with the stock market and generally the economy. If it was simple and see thru you couldn’t run this many scams.

I understand crypto... and it is utter shit.

Cryptocurrency or cryptography?

The former you don’t really need to understand fully to use, but the latter is vital and indeed brain-melting.

Noone is expecting you to understand crypto, but I hear this about modern technology in general all the time and I just don't buy it. It's only brain-melting if you've spent your entire life being deeply incurious. There are 80-90 year olds who understand this shit just fine because they bothered to keep up.

I feel like its an advantage to know the analog way to do things in addition to the current norms. For example, navigating by paper map and direction of the sun, like some kind of land pirate.

I was born in 1983 and I’m old enough to remember having only 5 tv channels, vcr’s, and you couldn’t get on the internet if your mom was in the phone.

Apparently I'm an elder.

The shifts in tech were easy.

It's the repeated economic punishment, school shootings, terrorist attacks, and political dive bomb this country has put us through that's been tough.

Yeah, let’s see you write a new autoexec.bat file with whatever text editor came on a DOS3.2 floppy that’s infected the the Stoned virus after you stupidly deleted autoexec.bat from your 386 by going to the library and checking out some books.

The shift was 9/11 happening and everything that happened after.

FUCK YOU! I understand crypto and STILL have a VHS tape I never returned. pfft. arrogant youth. now where do i push to send this to reddit?

I may be older but I know how to take a selfie without my phone in it.

When I was a kid, Commander Data from Star Trek TNG was the height of technological possibility. TNG was set in the 2300s.

It looks like hard drives are selling for about 20 bucks a terabyte now. Commander Data had a storage capacity of 100 petabytes.

So today, to buy hard drives equivalent to the capacity Commander Data would cost about $2 million. You would have to be very wealthy to afford that as an individual, but the cost will only get lower. It will still be quite awhile before a random laptop will have a Commander Data's worth of storage space. But you're talking decades, not centuries.

Though, this calculation is for the Data that appeared in the original TNG run. His more recent appearance in Star Trek Picard may be different, as his specifications there may canonically differ.

This calculation was only meant to detail the capacity of the original Commander Data, not the more recent Big Data.