The Older I Get, The More The Technological Changes I've Lived Through As A Millennial Feel Bizarre To

the older I get, the more the technological changes I've lived through as a millennial feel bizarre to me. we had computers in my primary school classroom; I first learned to type on a typewriter. I had a cellphone as a teenager, but still needed a physical train timetable. my parents listened to LP records when I was growing up; meanwhile, my childhood cassette tape collection became a CD collection, until I started downloading mp3s on kazaa over our 56k modem internet connection to play in winamp on my desktop computer, and now my laptop doesn't even have a disc tray. I used to save my word documents on floppy discs. I grew up using the rotary phone at my grandparents' house and our wall-connected landline; my mother's first cellphone was so big, we called it The Brick. I once took my desktop computer - monitor, tower and all - on the train to attend a LAN party at a friend's house where we had to connect to the internet with physical cables to play together, and where one friend's massive CRT monitor wouldn't fit on any available table. as kids, we used to make concertina caterpillars in class with the punctured and perforated paper strips that were left over whenever anything was printed on the room's dot matrix printer, which was outdated by the time I was in high school. VHS tapes became DVDs, and you could still rent both at the local video store when I was first married, but those shops all died out within the next six years. my facebook account predates the iphone camera - I used to carry around a separate digital camera and manually upload photos to the computer in order to post them; there are rolls of undeveloped film from my childhood still in envelopes from the chemist's in my childhood photo albums. I have a photo album from my wedding, but no physical albums of my child; by then, we were all posting online, and now that's a decade's worth of pictures I'd have to sort through manually in order to create one. there are video games I tell my son about but can't ever show him because the consoles they used to run on are all obsolete and the games were never remastered for the new ones that don't have the requisite backwards compatibility. I used to have a walkman for car trips as a kid; then I had a discman and a plastic hardshell case of CDs to carry around as a teenager; later, a friend gave my husband and I engraved matching ipods as a wedding present, and we used them both until they stopped working; now they're obsolete. today I texted my mother, who was born in 1950, a tiktok upload of an instructional video for girls from 1956 on how to look after their hair and nails and fold their clothes. my father was born four years after the invention of colour televison; he worked in radio and print journalism, and in the years before his health declined, even though he logically understood that newspapers existed online, he would clip out articles from the physical paper, put them in an envelope and mail them to me overseas if he wanted me to read them. and now I hold the world in a glass-faced rectangle, and I have access to everything and ownership of nothing, and everything I write online can potentially be wiped out at the drop of a hat by the ego of an idiot manchild billionaire. as a child, I wore a watch, but like most of my generation, I stopped when cellphones started telling us the time and they became redundant. now, my son wears a smartwatch so we can call him home from playing in the neighbourhood park, and there's a tanline on his wrist ike the one I haven't had since the age of fifteen. and I wonder: what will 2030 look like?

Food Survey

1. How do you feel about golden oreos?

2. What is your favorite dessert topping?

3. What is your favorite flavor/brand of bubble gum?

4. Favorite cheese?

5. Favorite Lunch Meat?

6. Favorite ice cream flavor?

7. Best looking food?

8. Best food to put cheese on?

9. Best sexual food?

10. Best tasting drink in the summer?

11. Best tasting drink in winter?

12. Best food for a night out with friends?

13. Best foods to eat with a roll?

14. Messiest food, in your opinion?

15. Easist food to prepare?

16. Cheapest food you ever ate?

17. Most expensive food you ever ate?

18. Stinkiest food you ever ate?

19. Favorite dipping sauce?

20. Best pizza topping?

21. Favorite potato chip flavor?

22. Most toxic substance you ever ate?

23. Most calories you ate in one meal?

24. Favorite soda?

25. Favorite flavor of juice?

26. Favorite Vegetable?

27. Favorite fruit?

28. Worst canned food?

29. Best side dish?

30. Worst fast food restuarant?

31. Best restaurant?

32. Best smelling food?

33. Favorite appetizer?

34. Favorite cookie flavor?

35. Favorite cake flavor?

36. Favorite pie flavor?

37. Chocolate or rainbow sprinkles?

38. Ketchup or Mustard?

39. Best food to have on a date?

40. Most share-able food?

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groovyblueworld

5 months ago

Medium

MS Word is Using You to Train AI

How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents

Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out.

If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, or any work you intend to protect with copyright and/or sell), you’re going to want to turn this feature off immediately.How to Turn off Word’s AI Access To Your Content

I won’t beat around the bush. Microsoft Office doesn’t make it easy to opt out of this new AI privacy agreement, as the feature is hidden through a series of popup menus in your settings:On a Windows computer, follow these steps to turn off “Connected Experiences”:

File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Optional Connected Experiences > Uncheck box: “Turn on optional connected experiences”

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groovyblueworld

9 months ago

Continuing my Doll shelf reset! Just finished the next section and the Vibe is Dreamy.

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groovyblueworld

1 year ago

what do you mean Just Standing There Ominously doesn’t count as socializing

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groovyblueworld

5 months ago

The Frost Is Back, Time Will Tell If We Will Be Blessed By Snow Or Not. Some Creatures Are Still Roaming

The frost is back, time will tell if we will be blessed by snow or not. Some creatures are still roaming the fields, some to hunt for food some to fuel their mind by the beauty of the frost pattern.

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groovyblueworld

8 months ago

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”

― Jamie Anderson

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