Smartphones caused the decline of civilization

I have to agree

-Posted from my Kuroba Ex app

Really it ended with niggers and jeets having access.

>>507648969 (OP)
correct. giving women and niggers a pocket computer was a mistake. If you can't into command line, you are a dumb nigger monkey that should not be allowed on the world wide web. simple as.

>>507648969 (OP)
thief kikes destroyed the computer

>>507648969 (OP)
It's really hard to find a nice desk/workstation like this these days that's not some minimalist shit.

>>507649259
kys codemonkey

Those desks sucked. Nowhere to rest my fucking forearms. Still kino tho.

>>507649821
thats what the chair was for zoomer

>>507649188
This. When the internet was more niche and took some technical know-how to connect and navigate it was better.

Tragedy of the commons played out over the course of a decade.

>>507649676
agree I've even had thoughts of getting into woodworking but I have no place to do that atm

>>507648969 (OP)
How the fuck am i supposed to shit up the internet with one hand then

>>507649676
go to some consignment or donation centers, you'd be surprised the ancient shit you can find.

>>507648969 (OP)
i had that exact desk. grandpa helped me assemble it. awesome. man i hate jews.

>>507648969 (OP)
my pc was in a big folding armoire thing it was awesome.

>>507650384
I'm building a 3dfx gaming rig and going to hide it in one of those cabinets in my living room

>>507648969 (OP)
I distinctly remember walking home from school one day wishing my classic nokia phone could somehow connect to the internet and use MSN to let me message my Runescape/Ragnarok Online/Maplestory friends.

I regret that wish deeply.

>>507650723
mine was pic related. I eventually junked it but kept the doors and used them for a home made dart board cabinet

>>507650768
I got scammed out of many rupees into buying hello kitty stickers for those dumb phone when they didn't even support any colors, the ringtone mafia also got me.

>>507648969 (OP)
I don't have a "smartphone", and I only go online when I'm at home.
You could do this too, If you chose to..

>>507649821
The middle part rolls out
You need to be 18 to post here

I miss the early 2000s phone era. It was like the cambian explosion for phones.

>>507648969 (OP)
>the internet isnt real life
is no longer true when most people spend the majority of their time online

I miss Lemmings bros...

>>507648969 (OP)
I remember I kept fucking my parebts computer up looking at porn and downloading shit like screen savers and that little stripper that danced on the bottom of your screen. Sharing a computer with everyone in your family was a trip kek.

>>507649259
Have you ever built your own compiler

>>507648969 (OP)
I remember when that pic wasn't the internet. It was the computer. You'd pit in the CDs you bought (you see, that pile besides the monitor?) and it would have software and stuff. You'd buy software because they'd sell you functioning pieces of software instead of shitty "eh, maybe it works, but we'll keep pushing updoots every day to track you and slow down your machine forever until it breaks, just keep buying new shit lol".

>>507649188
>Really it ended with niggers and jeets having access.
You haven't seen anything yet

>>507651499
I only have a "smart phone"
Dont miss the big ugly computer one bit

>>507649187
This
-posted from my nissan kicks

>>507649188
Firet post best post

>>507648969 (OP)
they have actually improved life significantly and anyone saying otherwise should just give up their phone, shut off their internet and live in a cave and tell me how much better that is.

Computers and technology were always bad, why draw the line at portable computers

>>507648969 (OP)
We improved the computer but why is the printer still such jewry? Someone solve the printer. It's a goddamn ripoff if you own one, the ink dries every couple months so you have to buy more and it's the most expensive liquid on Earth literally. Or you don't own one and have to pay the UPS store an absurd amount to have a few pages printed. We need an Amazon for printed mage delivery or machines at every grocery store that print what we send it.

>>507649187
I dunno

-get the 4chan app for Kenmore Smart Refrigerator™

I spent almost all of my time on the internet even in the 90s. I would just go on gamefaqs and read things constantly.

>>507653027
I just print at the library. No color though, it kind of sucks

>>507653027
Hi,

Jews. It's the Jews.

Regards

>>507648969 (OP)
The place-ness argument is good but you can't just extend it to smartphones. The problem isn't "internet access everywhere", it's social media and apps hijacking dopamine pathways and causing screen addiction. So kids get addicted to the screen and then find themselves unable to detach from the toxicity of social media, or boomers get addicted to outrage propaganda and get mindfucked by psyops.

I didn't get an NSAphone until 2022, and since then I primarily use it for reading ebooks and google maps and very occassionally, watching videos (or more commonly listening to them in the shower). Sadly I don't even listen to music on it very often I need to transfer some onto it.

Don't take that as a brag either, I have to be very conscious about how, when, and where I use my phone. It takes effort. Most people can't muster that effort and surrender to the mind control.

>>507653578
what no adrenochrome does to a nigga

>>507651203
I just love how that door opens up and becomes a side-table like that.

>>507651693
Based Lemmings chad

>>507653027
DONT
USE
INKJET

Get yourself a HP or Brother, color laser printer. Look for a used one for under $200. Once you buy it, take it home and print the usage reports. If it has printed under 2,000 pages it's basically brand new.

>>507648969 (OP)
I agree

It was better too when the only way to connect was through dial up.

You connected to the internet for a few hours in which you were able to visit a virtual world. When you were done you disconnected and the session ended.

Now that barrier has dissolved and both worlds have merged.

>>507651693
For me, it's Minesweeper and Ski Free.

>>507654215
>Brother
Nah this is the Jew brand that fucked me. It never worked since day 1, required wifi to print because it sends everything to the feds, or a proprietary wire that it didn't come with and cost me $30 to buy from the company. The ink doesn't even last a month if you aren't using it, and if you use it it runs out quickly or has you do constant "cleaning cycles" where it wastes a bunch of ink.

Laser printing is low quality and costs a shit ton to do in color.

>>507653027
The problem is less printers and more paper. Paper is a fucking nightmare to engineer for. Fuck humidity.

If you want a good printer, be prepared for it to take up a huge footprint of space and be prepared to buy toner in large quantities. Honestly you're better off just printing pages as needed at an office store.

>>507649676
This and also just with furniture in general. What the fuck happened?

>>507654643
You are ignorant. Laser lasts longer and is very high quality. Get a used HP color laser printer. The kind with a really small paper tray. Ink jet is ass.

>>507651693
>drinking from the hose
>but not homossexually
Is there anything stopping you from doing that? Because I do sometimes.

>>507654707
No just get a good used color laser HP. Not a new model, something a few years old.

I used to talk to a Truther on MSN in the mid 2000s who would share photos of the abandoned buildings he used to explore, was very comfy.

>>507652856

That is the thing, you can't because once it went mainstream it became a requirement to live.
Government requires you pay most bills online.
Many private companies and most large corporations require you use the internet to find and apply for a job.
The worst companies now even require a smart phone for work or an app to spy on you and clock in with. That app records everywhere you are even on days off.

Society has basicly mandated you use the internet to exist.
If you want to see how bad it can get look at China. You basicly need a smart phone and to be in frequently hacked databases to spend money, open your apartment gate, be tracked at all times etc and having your identity stolen is just a normal part of the game you are required by law to play.
A wireless pocket computer the government and employers mandate is basicly an authoritarian leash.
And wearing your leash is not optional.

>>507654631
worms armageddon and starcraft brood war

>>507648969 (OP)
Another thing about the phones is im now passionless. One day i want to bake bread, the next I want to go spearfishing. I buy a $500 Traeger for smoking brisket, now im shopping electric dirtbikes. The internet turns you into an amalgamation of your short-term interests. I have no one true commitment other than my occupation

>>507654891
>furniture
Ikea-shit mainly, but even just lumber/wood is expensive as fuck now. I wanted to build some bookshelves and even just the lumber was going to be so expensive if wasn't worth it. Best strat for furniture is to assume you're buying for life, and be very very careful about it and be prepared to spend a lot of money, and then make sure it's covered by insurance and documented.

>>507655081
You're still gonna get tracked by the feds. I still think it's better to just pay per page somewhere and try to reduce your printing needs to the maximum.

>>507648969 (OP)
Should of stopped at blackberries

Yes.
That and computers becoming too easy to use.
During Windows XP days, computers still had the built in retard filter that weeded out normies. They required constant problem solving and this kept a lot of people out.
There was a sweet spot when tech was good, but not too good to be intrusive. Nerds had their own space and normies were outside.
Brief 5-10 year time frame where things were in absolutely perfect balance and then it got fucked beyond belief.

>>507655400

This.
Phones are now mandatory in most places and internet is so mandatory, that access to it is in our constitution.
One day my phone got locked up as I fucked up the pin code too many times.
Instantly I was cut off from everything.
Couldn't log into the site where I could have unfucked my phone, as I needed the ID program for logging in that was on my phone. Couldn't call because I couldn't open my phone.
I had to go to one of the stores to have it fixed.
Phone is nowadays such a necessary lifeline, that you damn well plan and have a backup if your phone fails or gets lost.
I don't even call anyone, I just use the phone for the mandatory stuff that you need it for.

>>507655400
i enjoy everything it brings.

>>507655968
Anon the reason your printer won't print a black page when you don't have yellow ink is because of serial number micro tracking dots. All printers have it built in. All printers will detect and fail when you try to print money.

>>507654631
>>507655461
>He didn't have Ricochet EXTREME
What's it like missing out?

>>507656425
>Dr skipper
I don't think that fellow skips much

>>507649188
This. When the internet was just White people and Asians the world was a better place.

Letting subhumans [insert activity] was a mistake.

>>507655400
>That is the thing, you can't because once it went mainstream it became a requirement to live.
Nah you can avoid lots of it
>Government requires you pay most bills online.
Not true at all, you can pay most government fines in person in places or by mailing a check. Easy.
>Many private companies and most large corporations require you use the internet to find and apply for a job.
This is true but you don't need a smartphone. You can absolutely use a public computer at the library and store your documents in either the cloud or on a cheap encrypted USB, or use your home computer.
>The worst companies now even require a smart phone for work or an app to spy on you and clock in with. That app records everywhere you are even on days off.
Absolute bullshit but not so common that it can't be avoided. Additionally, in many cases you can insist you don't own a smartphone and insist they either wave the requirement or provide you with a work phone. Don't work for those companies.

>Society has basicly mandated you use the internet to exist.
We live in a society.
>If you want to see how bad it can get look at China. You basicly need a smart phone and to be in frequently hacked databases to spend money, open your apartment gate, be tracked at all times etc and having your identity stolen is just a normal part of the game you are required by law to play.
China is not normal, you don't live in Chinese society.
>A wireless pocket computer the government and employers mandate is basicly an authoritarian leash.
>And wearing your leash is not optional.
There are basically no mandates in the USA even in 2025. I lived well up to 2022 with no smartphone, and these days I'll just lie to peoples' face when they ask for my phone number and tell them I don't have a phone. Nothing ever happens.

The truth is that nobody's forcing YOU to have a smartphone. You're just addicted to it, and projecting that addiction to any external body so you don't have to acknowledge it.

>>507654966
>HP color laser printer
Lowest cost is mid $300 range. Do you not see how this isn't viable for someone who just needs to print something once or twice a year? I shouldn't have to send a document to the brown retard behind the counter of the office store who doesn't know how to open a .pdf

We had Kinkos but that's long gone. The services we have now are ass and someone industrious could make millions on a solution. Any printer you recommend we buy is just going to purposely break in a couple years anyway, we all know how it goes. They're the most Jewed device in anyone's home except modern screen electronics. Everything is getting so fucking bad.

>>507652070
I have studied at the feet of King Terry and am fluent in Holy C

>>507649676
Let me guess...You need more

Humans receive gift that give them godlike powers, but many of them are not humble and they are no gods (they can't reproduce the means a minority create for them). Disgusting Apes.

>>507648969 (OP)
never had that shit. standard desk always. computer literally got its own room, poors needn't apply.

>>507649259
Niggers and women are not the only problem, a lot of males are just living for vices and retardation

>>507648969 (OP)
How long until the Left claims that "smart phones" are for "smart people"?

Meanwhile, all they are addicted to is social media and other trivial garbage.

Its really subjective

Smart people realize it's a powerful tool to advance discovery and knowledge

Midwits use it to consume as it's dawned a new era of consumption

Retards are confused and threatened by it, like basically everything else they encounter on their way to the bottom

Getting mad at the internet because of how pervasive it is, is like getting mad at literacy because most people read magazines and comic books

Personally I was born in the 80s, and having access to every song ever for the cost of one cd is pretty based

But I'm cleary a midwit so what do I know

>>507653578
or imagine this: he cant paint it in prison and he has been gray for who knows how long

>>507656863
I work in IT and know what I'm talking about. HP color laser printers are made for business use.

>>507652856
They OP pic didn't say shut it all down and live in a cave, he said that once upon a time niggers and women didn't have a portal to the internet in their pocket that drives them insane 24/7, and that the world was better because of it, and he's right

>>507648969 (OP)
This ignores the existence of laptops though

>>507655461
>Many Moons have passed, since the Worms went to war. Onwards and upwards, bigger weapons than before.
>Boggy B took cover, he shivered on patrol. The arms race crazy, simply way out of control.
>Then his friend threw it, the latest device. Boggy B went and got it, against all advice - "What the...?"
>His tail was split, and his energy lost. How many more will this dreaded war cost?
>Then came the Nuke, and the disease tumbling down. If the bug didn't get you, then you'd probably drown.
>But the Worms battled on, through hunger and pain. Living to fight, just to victor again.
>And now it's the curtain call, the final onslaught, No better bullet could you possibly have bought.
>But spare a thought for Boggy and with it his friend. So fight with that honour, and fight until the end.

>>507648969 (OP)
The 2007 births, marking the first members of the Smart Phone Generation, turn 18 this year. That means they can vote. I remember imagining what a change that would be back in the late 20teens. But after seeing AI come on strong, I'm thinking the Smart Phoners are going to be a relatively sane generation compared to the AI's. It's one thing to have the world at your fingertips that you have to manually search on. It's something entirely different to have the AI do your homework and everything else for you. With pre AI smartphones, you still had to think for your self a little bit. You were no longer asking your elders for information but you still had to give it tons of prompts and do some calculating for yourself. With the new AI, thinking becomes obsolete because now the AI thinks for you, much faster and more accurately than you can think for yourself. The new divide is the pre AI generations vs post AI.

>>507648969 (OP)
My desk looks like that. I even still have a CRT.

>>507650768
Internet would be good only if it was for worthy people and you were part of that club. Back in the day, we thought to deserve that power because the ones with the courage of curiosity to use internet were few. But I remember clearly that the pioneers just put the very seeds of corruption. They created the internet culture of degeneracy that was inherited by the normies. The first users of internet, just like it was a Bohemian Grove, used the web to build a digital persona founded on their vices and kinks, because it was a "secret club". When the normies arrived en masse, they started to follow on that but as their own public identity.

>>507649949
>getting into woodworking
You can come over to my house anon. I have tools dating back to the 1860's

>>507648969 (OP)

>>507648969 (OP)
holy fuk that looks comfy

>>507659093
AND WE LOVED IT

>>507653578
He just stopped dying his hair, people are retarded.

>>507648969 (OP)
That's how I treat the internet today.
I rarely use my cellphone.

>>507649188
>mfw those fags at blizzard announced classic wow years ago knowing that the homogenous community would be gone from the Vanilla days
Those new kids, those nostalgia goggled oldfags, they went into that shit with the very highest of hopes not knowing that it truly was both a product of it's time but more importantly a product of the limited scope the internet had reached back then.

"No hablo ingles" was such a fucking absolutely rare occurrence, so rare that it was treated as some manner of mystical event, a "Wow, really? That's fucking neato, never met someone who couldn't speak English." type of deal that happened maybe once or perhaps twice over all of Vanilla WoW's run, hell probably parts of TBC and Wrath too.
But for the Classic people? That was the norm, all of the homogenous community destroyed, language barriers all over the place, hell even the fact that many younger "americans" can't even write from their lack of literacy contributed too.

Classic and Vanilla were fundamentally different experiences and it was "nice" comparing the mostly homogenous vs diversity is our strength versions. Those chinks had the right fucking idea of walling their internet off from outsiders, I'm sure their multiplayer games aren't a constant state of *fire alarm beeps*, foreigner babble, and other bullshit.

>>507649188
wrong. it was when american women got iphones, and youtube and 4chan started doing mobile friendly versions of their site to welcome them. 4chan used to block phone IPs back in 2014

me personally I miss 2008-2011 internet and imvu and that kind of stuff

>>507648969 (OP)
Some people just aren't built for the internet, and they're all on the internet now. Many of them are moderating it.

>>507648969 (OP)
i've never owned a cellphone in my life
when I leave my computer desk I leave the internet and devices behind entirely
I'm 31 years old
and this is my story.

>>507659992
after 2011 it just became impossible to make e-friends. there was strong pressure to add each other on fb. if only we had a more anonymous platform. normans abandoned usernames and bigger platforms discouraged using fan made usernames

>>507656566
idk bro, I feel fine
>>507657938
the soundtrack was really good too

>>507660119
based
I have a personal dumbphone plus a workphone
but I dont use the workphone for browsing

my pet theory is that post quality is strongly related to being in the mindspace of sitting down at a computer to use it
vs pulling out a phone while on the toilet to low effort shitpost

my parents refuse to move/sell their old pc cabinet even though they moved on to phones

"we paid thousands for it!" jesus christ boomers were such suckers

>>507651203
This was ours, 2002-2015

>>507660044
Yup. Getting banned from a video game server for calling a bot a nigger. Getting banned if you don't support sterilizing kids.

>>507654215
Laser printers are the only things that make sense. I barely print anything and I still have my dad's old laser printer in storage because the ink jew is such a fucking shyster meme.

>>507648969 (OP)
Based. 2007 was the beginning of the end. Giving subhuman-IQ niggers and pajeets 24/7 access to the Library of Alexandria will prove to be the biggest mistake white man will ever make.

>>507650047
>go to some consignment or donation centers, you'd be surprised the ancient shit you can find.
jeets/chinks ruined all that

>>507660739
It definitely does

>>507656566
I fucking have that game KEK.

>>507649188
It was the smartphone that really put the final nail in the coffin though.

>>507663613
And centralized web services.

>>507651856
Yeah or when you’d wake up in the middle of the night to dial on the internet to fap, woke everyone in the house up so you could wait 20 mins for a pic to load, I could never wait the whole time, I’d bust as soon as a nipple or something loaded up.
It was a gentler time.

>>507666536
Kek. Now kids are being exposed to VR 4k furry ganbangs

>>507648969 (OP)
beware of golem technology what that does destroys people

>>507648969 (OP)
this golem technology makes people demoralized they forget about ethics

>>507659648
Kek, I remember when smart phones launched. Sites hadn't formatted for them. It was just the beginning, fuck off zoomer.
>inb4 boomer, zoomers can't meme skibbity