Thread 82403823

Has anyone else been getting the urge to use simpler offline tech

Nah I'm good

If anything I want one of those new screens, the office has a 4k one and it shits on mine

No, not really. I saw the appeal when I was younger but now idk it seems like a waste of time.

>>82403823 (OP)
I would rather kill myself over partaking in such degeneracy.

>>82403823 (OP)
i have a boombox nearly exactly like this for my tapes and cds. i've had it so long i can't imagine listening to music through my phone or whatever else.

everything modern pisses me the fuck off including the internet. if not for normies, I wouldn't even bother with the internet at this point.

>>82403823 (OP)
more like I never really strayed too far from it, being from that generation.

Fuck ebooks, fuck streaming of either movie or music, fuck apps, fuck QR codes, fuck anything voice activated, fuck paying for things with my phone.

The most "online" I am is when I'm downloading mp3s, and even that in itself is like a 10-20 year old retro thing.

Lately I've been downloading movies and TV shows and also anime and cartoons off of anywhere I can find then, I used to have a huge DVD collection but I got rid of most of them as I told myself I'd be buying everything on blu-rays but only ended up buying a handful.

I was buying new CDs regularly up until like 10 years ago, as much as I love to pirate I'm still a sucker for supporting artists and physical media. I've been going to secondhand shops for dirt cheap vinyl records and occasionally get some CDs as well.

Same with books I used to own shelves and shelves of them but decided to purge it all and I regret giving most of them away, but now it's easy to replace most of them from secondhand stores and also those "mini libraries" that people dump all their shit at.

In general I've been less engaged in the online real even if I'm still at the computer. I've stopped watching youtube slop like X Reacts to Y videos,no more bodycam and interrogation room videos, I've entirely stopped posting on websites and in youtube comments, I've posted much less on 4chan compared to my peak years.

I'd rather just sit and relax and play retro games on an emulator or watch an old movie as a mkv file and listen to it in another language with subtitles on.

We lost power a couple of times over the summer, and it was great to just sit back and relax and read books to cure my internet ADD brain. When 4chan was down for a minute as well in the late spring/early summer after getting hacked that was great.

>>82404258
I want what you're having, anon
It feels "evil" now to actively participate in society
Like, there's not a thing untouched by the hands of Moloch
Everything's tainted, everything is covered in blood

>>82404101
You just use old tech because you think it makes girls wet. Youre trying to stand out so you can get a blowjob.

>>82404284
>I want what you're having, anon
15 mg of THC edibles, nightly.

But really I'm doing it for the sake of my own convenience and wanting to save money.
I read and see and hear about people who pay 15$ a month here 30$ a month there adding up to hundreds of dollars monthly just to listen to music on their phone and watch TV. That seems insane to me, especially when older movies & TV shows get edited all shitty either with AI or general incompetence, or they get censored for problematic jokes, or they get pulled altogether from streaming on the one app and is now streaming on another one you have to pay for now because fuck you.

I'd still rather have DVDs and Blu Rays, and in the case of video games the original games as cartridges/CDs as well as the physical game systems, but I'm content with emulators/roms and mp4/mkv files.

I've been digital-hoarding lately, the places I used to get my downloads from have been getting taken down or are simply now dead links to a file hosting company that hasn't existed in years. Even the newer sources it's like a game of whack a mole where one is taken down every few months or years but luckily I usually find a new one.

>>82404295
>using old tech makes you more appealing
fucking what? not it doesn't you retarded consoomer iPandered to dipshit faggot fuck nigger