The older I get...

The older I get, the less I care about keeping up with the latest technology because it's just a tool I use for work mostly.

My next phone might be from Apple/Google directly and my next computer might be from Apple/Microsoft directly too.

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Yeah, a year ago I didn't have Internet for a while and I felt way better.
As much as I love tech, past a certain point it only adds complexity and worries in my life.
I'd rather have offline hobbies and spend only the strictly necessary time on computers.
I'm really starting to appreciate how normies live their life in their blissfully ignorant lack of liver-eroding preoccupations and time-wasting problems and trivial preferences that make absolutely no difference in the grand scheme of things.

Too bad I'm a complete loser with nothing in his life outside of computer-bound stuff, so I'll have to be stuck with a tech life for a while.

I started running as a hobby to get away from tech but then I got into running tech and different types of running shoes and winter gear etc

Also I wrote about staying with no Interney here

>shills are this desperate to take control of Sup Forums

That's the price of having a nerd mentality.
Whatever activity we do, we have to geek out on it because we're too autistic to do things in a "just fine" way. Everything has to be optimized and perfect.
I think this mentality is a big part of the problem.

what am I supposed to be shilling for?

For non marketers to leave, so you can have a vaguely easier time peddling your wares.

The amount of shills and marketers on Sup Forums is staggering.

If anyone takes anyone on Sup Forums for their word, is a fool. Do your own research, check out DIFFERENT websites, even the lesser knowns, and make your purchases based on your own research instead of some shill that shitposts gaymen benchmarks and name brand products.

Kek wut?
So I'm trying to get tech-enthusiasts to not be tech-enthusiasts anymore (and leave the site), so it will be easier to shill my tech products to a non-techie audience of shills?

Wouldn't it be easier to shill tech products to tech enthusiasts rather than to shill them to marketers (whom won't even fall for my attempts)?

You'd be right if Sup Forums wasn't browsed by Sup Forums and every other board.
Why can't people look past IP counts in threads?

But by saying that we should use technology less, I'm "scaring" them away too.
In fact, those who aren't techies in the first place will be easier to steer away from technology (and the tech products shilled here) than those who spent/spend their entire life on it.

Bump

Apple has a fancy gayish appearance for a starbucks for a hipster and nothing more that can beat Linux/Android in efficiency and flexibility for a techie.

No, you're just consumers. That sounds like typical consumerism to me.

But that applies to things where no money is spent at all too.

Fine, I'll let that one slip then. Examples?

But you can't tell me that taking up running and looking at shoes isn't consumerism, I'm not having that. You're all just a bunch of women.

His example of running gear is just one instance of this mentality.

To find other examples you can just look around on this very board (and the rest of Sup Forums).
Look at all those generals where people go full autist on distros, ricing, trackers, software, etc.
None of which is paid for, but they still spend hours arguing that their choice is better, and even more time setting up their stuff so that it's perfect how they want it (despite only having a marginal or nonexistant improvement over what normal people use).

When it's about things you have to buy, obviously the venn diagram circle of this mentality overlaps with that of the consumerist one, but it doesn't stem from it. It stems from being bothered by not having the most efficient/optimal solution.

While I don't know the guy personally (and as far as we know he might be consumerism-driven, rather than just being a nerd), that's the general mentality of the kind of people that populate this website.

Nah.

There's still a split between those people.

I have a best friend I live with and we're those two different kinds of people so I'm basing my opinion solely on personal anecdotes, but I prefer performance over anything else and while he likes that as well, he also likes things to look nice. He's the sort of person who would put neon lights on his machine and I don't care about that sort of stuff.

We were picking out a graphics tablet for me recently, and he would just be swayed towards the ones that look the nicest. See, that's shoes. Shoes will do very little towards that guy running better, they're not for optimization. You're just looking to buy something related to your interests, rather than putting time into your hobby which is running.

That would be like me orienting more towards buying a tablet rather than drawing. It's not optimization, a new tablet won't make me draw better. It's just a distraction.

I'm not saying you're not nerds, but what I am saying that
>Whatever activity we do, we have to geek out on it because we're too autistic to do things in a "just fine" way
That's an excuse to not concentrate on the right things. It's not a nerd mentality to focus on shoes rather than running, that's distracting yourself from running.

I've riced my OS as well instead of doing proper work, that's not me being a nerd, that's me procrastinating. No different than regular people, they just chat on Facebook instead of rice, but it's procrastination all the same.

TL;DR

Just an excuse for procrastination. Focus.

Your entire post is logically sound but is based on two false assumptions, so your conclusions are wrong.

You start from the assumption that running shoes are only aesthetic, while actually they're not (and even if they were, OP might believe they are).
And runnign shoes were only his example. Just by looking at this board, you see that apart from the ricing, everything else Anons obsess about is about optimization and function and not aesthetics.

>I've riced my OS as well instead of doing proper work, that's not me being a nerd, that's me procrastinating.
Here's the second one. No one said anything about doing it instead of working. Many of us go to work our daily hours and come back home to do this stuff in our free time.

Ok, I agree, you got me. But I still think shoes will do as much towards running as a new tablet would do to me.

While it would be nice having a better one, it's ultimately my skill and not the tablet that is determinal overall performance. Tablet is such a small part of it that it doesn't even matter. And so are shoes.

I work all day long doing parallel algorithm testing in a genome lab. It's all done on a whiteboard for the most part and actual coding takes very little time. I sit in front of a computer maybe 10% of my day.

I own a single laptop, that runs generic ubuntu LTS default install. I only ever use 3 programs, emacs for orgmode, because I run a research blog and generate html with it, chromium web browser to log into Elsivier and other paywall journals my lab pays for (or I sci-hub proxy) and cups to print out pdfs of research papers as reading LaTeX on a screen looks like shit.

I annotate by hand on the paper because all the software to do this is a pile of shit and fries your eyes after a while, plus renders math fonts like shit.

Before this I was an avid desktop ricer, gaymur and custom kernel builder. Now I have literally no interest or time and feels good to never be around technology even if I'm making cutting edge technology

I agree on that, and that's exactly what I'm talking about.
It's the mentality of being bothered by not having things the most perfect way.
For example, finding that a different distro might give you a very slight (and perhaps unnoticeable) performance improvement, and then spending a month setting it up to have everything in the perfect place might not be logical or sensible, but it still satisfies that need that nerds/geeks have of being efficient and having things work the most optimal way.

Jelly as fuck

Technology sucks

Call me stubborn, but I still don't see looking at shoes to buy as a nerdy thing. Getting interested in what exactly makes the shoes more suitable for running, yes, maybe crafting your own autistic shoes, but not sifting through catalogs of shoes.

Getting lodged in details of how and why is nerdy to me.

But FINE. That filthy shoebuyer is nerdy.

If he's looking at how they look, then no. He's like a woman going shopping.
If he's looking at the features, then yes, it's part of "Getting interested in what exactly makes the shoes more suitable for running".

I'm not into running, so I can't really explain that they make a difference, but I assure you that they do.
There's all kinds of materials, shapes, springs, gels, etc. that make a significant difference.

Forgot to mention I have an old Nexus 4 running generic Cyanogenmod rom without GAPPS (as a result, my battery lasts all day now) to shitpost here on occasion since I've been here since way too long and to talk to friends with. When Android first came out I was building my own roms from source but now I can't be bothered since it's largely closed source now anyway and requires hundreds of binaries to work.

I have a DigitalOcean VPS which I use a VPN for my phone too github.com/trailofbits/algo and for DNS, and for a mail server I access in emacs for the sole purpose of posting/reading mailing lists relevant to my field.

I even stopped pirating books on libgen and now prefer to buy them used from Abe Books or get the "global" versions, which are only 10% of the reg price. As a result I have a large library now which takes me lest time to find stuff than it did when I had hundreds of misnamed/shittily named pdfs in calibre.

Well that's it, I just don't believe people when they say they're looking at shoes for their other features.

Let me assure you he's looking mainly at how they look and other things on side.

Don't believe him when he says otherwise. We're the only autists here arguing for hours whether some guy who's buying shoes for running is nerdy or not.

I love you btw, let's grab a coffee and have sex.

is this a capitalism thing?

Well it's up to you to believe that. WHo knows who's right.
I declare this argument concluded.

>Don't believe him when he says otherwise. We're the only autists here arguing for hours whether some guy who's buying shoes for running is nerdy or not.
Kek true.

It was nice arguing with you.
You were reasonable and didn't resort to logical fallacies or shitposting, which is rare on this website.
Wish you the best.

Oh boy here we go again.

>Wish you the best.
You too, friend.

kek

I never cared that much aside from getting something that works well + is kind of not evil.

Apple and Microsoft are not acceptable on my personal computers, but my GNU/Linux usage is very basic and relatively default and when I find something that works, I stick with it. I don't want to maximize everything, I want a working setup that I can get used to and just get on with work (and play).

I always want to get a little deeper than the surface, but never obsess over the things I use or purchase. So I will search for information about tea pots or whatever before buying one. But I manage to avoid any buyers remorse or obsessions by simply not getting too deep.

My mom has a new LCD tv. Her directtv box doesn't even have hdmi and is hooked up via rca cables. She says the picture quality is just fine. Enjoy that normie bliss.