I thought the younger folk would be faster on computers than me but I had to show a junior new hire IT tech what a zip file was and how to open it. Something that I assumed would be second nature to them, they hadn’t seen. Growing up with analog and moving to digital as society progressed, I assumed the next generation would smoke me in tech but it’s been surprising that because tech has
“Just worked” for many of them they haven’t had to learn how it works. A blessing and a curse I suppose.
Honestly sometimes having learned the analog counterpart is really useful. It’s a different field but the first time I mixed live audio was on an old analog mixer. It wasn’t really all that difficult to use once explained. Shortly after we replaced it with a digital mixer (behringer x32), and I’m so glad that I had the opportunity to use the old analog one because so many concepts would appear, at least to me, difficult to grasp if you’re starting out on the digital one.
I have bad news for you if you happen to play maybe Skyrim or Cyberpunk 2077 or any Source game… or damn near any game, ever, or ever download literally any game from Steam…
they all use compressed file archive formats with their own decompression / streaming methods to fit more shit in less space on your hard drive / game disc. when you download a game, Steam auto encapsulates it in a compressed format, sends you those files, and then decompresses on your machine it once its all downloaded.
It’s absurdist. Like I said, file compression is ubiquitous and the reason for that is because of its undeniable utility. Thinking you can avoid file compression by being rich (by buying more storage space or network throughput) has likely NEVER occurred to anyone. I posted this joke on a comment about someone not understanding file compression at a basic level i.e. not even knowing how to use basic tools to get uncompressed files from compressed ones. The joke is taking this one step further from the perspective of someone so out of touch with the tech, that they’d rather not learn and choose the absolute worst attitude possible.
I thought the younger folk would be faster on computers than me but I had to show a junior new hire IT tech what a zip file was and how to open it. Something that I assumed would be second nature to them, they hadn’t seen. Growing up with analog and moving to digital as society progressed, I assumed the next generation would smoke me in tech but it’s been surprising that because tech has “Just worked” for many of them they haven’t had to learn how it works. A blessing and a curse I suppose.
Honestly sometimes having learned the analog counterpart is really useful. It’s a different field but the first time I mixed live audio was on an old analog mixer. It wasn’t really all that difficult to use once explained. Shortly after we replaced it with a digital mixer (behringer x32), and I’m so glad that I had the opportunity to use the old analog one because so many concepts would appear, at least to me, difficult to grasp if you’re starting out on the digital one.
The next gen grew up on tablets and iphones and walled gardens that make everything a mystery to them. Corporate infantilisation
File compression is for poor people.
I have bad news for you if you happen to play maybe Skyrim or Cyberpunk 2077 or any Source game… or damn near any game, ever, or ever download literally any game from Steam…
they all use compressed file archive formats with their own decompression / streaming methods to fit more shit in less space on your hard drive / game disc. when you download a game, Steam auto encapsulates it in a compressed format, sends you those files, and then decompresses on your machine it once its all downloaded.
Yeah, I wasn’t being serious. You don’t have to convince me file compression is ubiquitous, but I appreciate your dedication to educating people. :)
Well, ok, but then… how is ‘compression is for poor people’ a joke?
It’s absurdist. Like I said, file compression is ubiquitous and the reason for that is because of its undeniable utility. Thinking you can avoid file compression by being rich (by buying more storage space or network throughput) has likely NEVER occurred to anyone. I posted this joke on a comment about someone not understanding file compression at a basic level i.e. not even knowing how to use basic tools to get uncompressed files from compressed ones. The joke is taking this one step further from the perspective of someone so out of touch with the tech, that they’d rather not learn and choose the absolute worst attitude possible.