Popular Technologies that Won't be Around Much Longer...

[@Sideprojects]

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[@chickenwings6172]

I was 13 in 1994 and the internet was sweet. On my dads 486. Intel 486DX4-100 (1994) 33 MHz bus you can push a button and it he 66 MHz MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.11 Windows 95 came out August 24, 1995, we got in in feb.1996

[@adamtajhassam9188]

Sry PC's are getting compact and are not going anywhere . sURE U CAN HAVE OTHER DEVICES OF MOBILITY FACTOR BUT WE WELL ADJUST AS TECH EVOLVES EVEN THOUGH IT WONT BE FAST. like b4.

[@OfficialJamion]

I disagree with desktop computers. For one major reason... Gaming. Console gaming is dying. We see that. MS has talked about pulling the Xbox, and the current generation may be the last. The reason? A good chunk of gaming can now be done with smaller devices that people are already plugging into their TVs. Such as Firesticks, Chromecasts, etc. But PC gaming is actually experiencing the opposite effect. Growth, while console gaming is comparable to PC gaming in a lot of areas, PC gaming is far more open to independent development and has higher flexibility when it comes to high tier graphics (including AI graphics that are now being integrated into nVidias cards). Ok, but why wouldn't laptops just replace PCs for gaming then? More mobile and smaller form right? One major reason. Heat. All gaming laptops have one massive fundamental flaw, and that is the laws of thermodynamics. The small compact design means dissipating hear rapidly, and rapid enough to keep up the speeds of their desktop counterparts, is nearly impossible. You need large airflow (which means a bigger system) or liquid cooling (which is extremely heavy). Both of these limit the minimum size and portability of such systems. For the average user the PC will die. For gamers it is a very, very long way off.

[@backcountry164]

So, is it PRJ or PRG?? Lol!!

[@28Pluto]

How the heck can I take this video seriously when you're promoting the advertisement product?

[@Boomah4568]

Completely, completely wrong about the desktop computer. Desktop computers aren't just slightly more powerful, they are significantly more powerful than laptops. Many daily tasks, particularly in the workforce or entertainment, are significantly better and faster when using desktop class CPUs and gpus. Plus, I work in IT, and many companies are sticking strictly to desktop computers. Why? Because they don't move. It's a requirement for physical security. They're also cheaper and easier to repair, which helps the company bottom line. When I go home at the end of the day, I sure as hell am not going to game on a laptop. Even if it's connected to an external display.

[@chaosfenix]

I think it may bifurcate. We will get things like miniPCs and yes laptops for endpoints and for tasks that we need more power it may make more sense to have a server instead. This server could be accessed anywhere in the home through the home network and even anywhere in the world if the internet connection is good enough. Server hardware and desktop hardware have a lot of similarities and may be where people go.

[@typerightseesight]

for real whenever its twice as cheap to build it on your desk people will be using desktop computers.

[@robadobadingdong7104]

Depends what you do in IT. Most dev’s these days have a VM hosted on their company’s cloud network and development is done there. Servers can have vastly more power than desktops too. VMs allow devs to access their machine at home or in the office via remote connections, with the added security of all data, source code, repos etc never leaving the company’s infrastructure and can be shutdown and deleted with ease by system admins. Totally depends what you do in IT though. But I would assume less would require desktops than you think.

[@Timmycoo]

@@chaosfenix Completely different thing for server use than what people use built PCs for. And there is no substitute for direct connection. MiniPCs are already a thing for those who travel and need more power than a laptop. Mini/Micro ITX builds are pretty popular nowadays and you can buy a foldable stand with a monitor that can all fit in a backpack. The argument that laptops will catch up with desktop hardware is a moot point as that is saying that desktop hardware will stagnate.

[@Timmycoo]

Yeah and the cost of a similar performing laptop to a desktop is astronomically different. You're never going to get the same performance of a laptop (Simon even said tablet for some reason lol) than a desktop.

[@jeast417]

Owning physical media is still the best as it can always be accessed and not altered

[@amyhoard1222]

And doesn't require a subscription to acesss or get removed from your collection if you don't use it frequently.

[@davidvavra9113]

Absolutely

[@Joe_Dirt82]

I bought all my favorite movies/shows on DVD. Guess who can watch things with a generator if the grid goes down? I'll be charging ticket prices.😊

[@silversolver7809]

Is there something stopping you accessing and preserving the digital media you own? I've got all mine here in a few clicks, not taking up meters of wall space, playing hide and seek, and never returning from friendly borrowing :)

[@FNLNFNLN]

Depends on the physical media. With games, the "physical media" is often just a DRM key for the game that you download.

[@anthonyfamularo8875]

My special case is that it's currently impossible to take high-quality pics of wild birds and other wildlife with a phone, if they're more than 10 feet away and, y'know, moving.

[@shishka67]

Agreed. The professional world is way too dependent on digital cameras for them to disappear anytime soon, but if he's referring only to point-and-shoot digital cameras that we used to take on vacations, then he's probably right.

[@m0taboy]

Ai doesn't enhance picture more than lenses of phone kind of sucks/has it's limitations.

[@EstelleLegg]

@@shishka67 Let's face it the size sensor and quality of glass that are the foundation of professional cameras are simply not possible in phones or even tablets. I shoot football - I have proven I CAN do it on a phone in an emergency but there are fewer photos and nowhere near the quality. As for what those who are not practised in sports photography can manage just forget it (2 or 3 lucky captures not specified in advance do not cut it).

[@daniel.watching]

I have a $3k camera body and a $1k telephoto lens and that's entry level for wildlife photography and I find myself constantly missing shots because I can't get enough light or my focus can't keep up with the subject. It's wild to suggest all this can be replaced with a phone. Also while my iPhone boasts a "5x" optical zoom, it is only the equivalent of 120mm. The "5x" is because the standard lens is still quite wide at 24mm. For wildlife you want somewhere between 400-600mm. Even when shooting at the same zoom and resolution, the difference is night and day with a digital camera. The AI tricks that phones use to fill the gaps become incredibly obvious when you compare side by side with a real camera.

[@MotherShipMedia]

Worth noting that a downside to the loss of physical media is that streaming services can remove content at will, removing it from public consumption. At least with physical media options, people still had the chance to watch something that might not be broadcast again, but if Netflix cans a Netflix-only series, people will never be able to watch it again. If you have shows you love, I recommend looking for physical media to be SURE you always have access to it - the streaming world does NOT guarantee that.

[@colt5189]

Well, there are lots of 3rd party websites where you can stream shows/movies for free. So if a streaming show gets removed, those 3rd party websites will still have them and you don't have to download them. i.e. Willow is still up on 3rd party websites, though it's a terrible show and I doubt many watch it.

[@MotherShipMedia]

@@colt5189 That won't always be the case. For example, Star Trek Prodigy was dropped by Paramount between S1 & S2, and until Netflix picked them up, there was a time when S1 would no longer be available anywhere and S2 would never be seen by anyone (despite being made already). Netflix fixed that temporarily, but now if/when Netflix pulls it, there will no longer be any place to *legally* view it anymore without physical media.

[@colt5189]

@@MotherShipMedia I stream most shows on 3rd party websites for free. Willow was pulled from Disney+, but the 3rd party sites still have it up. Though you are right regarding watching “legally”.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

You only care about that because you’re mad that they’re taking racist scenes out of old cartoons. Just admit it lol. That’s the only people who complain about this, the anti-woke weirdos

[@loganmedia4401]

Same with physical media. They can stop making or selling them.

[@glenbateman5960]

I am amazed the wristwatch market hasn't totally collapsed. There are clocks on your phone, wall, TV, desktop, laptop, tablet, the dashboard of your car, the stove, the microwave, and these are just off the top of my head. Why on Earth would anyone need a wristwatch anymore?

[@LscottD]

It works with my phone.

[@FlyWithFitz81]

Tech that won't be around? Hopefully video shorts. "KZbin shorts, making the world dumber in less than a minute."

[@MrJustbrowsing12345]

Especially with that stupid music in the background on every other video

[@lajoyalobos2009]

Shorts: the destroyer of common sense. "That's not true! I follow the guy with the crappy-edited 30 second shorts with annoying music and weird pointing, and he told me (insert dumb 'fact' or severely disconnected conspiracy theory)!!"

[@ReplicantBattyman]

I think with the way things are going with the younger generations attention spans we're far more likely to see the complete end of videos longer than 3 minutes before that happens.

[@macethorns1168]

Got a KZbin Shorts blocker plugin. Amazing.

[@wroomwroomboy123]

PEDRO PEDRO PED...

[@jonjohns8145]

Physical Media such as DVD or Blu Ray will ALWAYS be with us as long as Streaming companies have the ability to remove content from their services for whatever reason they decide. When you "buy" a movie on a streaming service, you aren't actually Owning it, just renting it for a while. Physical media is the ONLY way to truly OWN a piece of content.

[@mattyt1961]

I wish this where true. In some areas (Like Australia) even large companies (Disney) who still release physical media are no longer selling there.

[@FNLNFNLN]

I mean, there is the _other_ way.

[@RS-ls7mm]

For a while, DVDs and Blu Ray don't last forever. I think they are deliberately designed to degrade faster. Some of my early discs don't work.

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

All physical media rots

[@chimpboy12345]

@@mattyt1961 This is why I just bought a region free bluray player from the UK. We've seen that streaming services have no qualms about censoring films, altering them or just not making them available to watch whenever they feel like it. Anyone who cares about film should own physical media and push back against the concept of streaming being the be all and end all of availability of content to the viewer.

[@derdodo1993]

Dedicated cameras won't be going anywhere. Photography and videography will always be necessary as a profession, because that's how events are documented and news is spread all over the world. Also, they're still very popular as a hobby and I don't think this will change soon. And most people who are filming either professionally or for enjoyment definitely care for the better quality and functions of dedicated cameras.

[@stickynorth]

Nope. If anything 4K & 8K resolution prosumer cameras will become more mainstream than ever thanks to the Nikon purchase of RED Camera Company which has become THE standard in professional filmmaking cinematography...

[@mattyt1961]

There is one other big thing (for people like me) if I lose or damage my camera I simply lose some photos and not my phone (along with everything else on it)

[@dbattleaxe]

@@stickynorth Resolution isn't just a matter of the digital resolution of a camera's sensor. There's also optical resolution which is a property of lenses in conjunction with wavelength. If you need any sort of zoom, optical resolution quickly becomes more of a limiting factor than digital resolution. There's a reason why phone cameras don't have a lens with the sort of zoom you can get from even the most basic DSLR lens: the physics of light doesn't allow it. It's not a technological problem, it's a physics problem. There's also the matter of f stop. Big lenses mean better low-light and motion capture. Then there's bokeh, the quality of that bokeh, and depth of field control. There's a reason why companies still make lenses costing tens of thousands of dollars even though smartphone cameras are dirt cheap and that's the physics of light itself.

[@davidbanta2934]

You missed the point, as he said for the desktop computer, they will be and have been relegated to a niche device for enthusiast. For your everyday consumer the extra expense just can't be justified when you phone can do 95% of everything else.

[@waynec3563]

@@davidbanta2934 I suppose that the DSLR is already a niche product, since they are relatively expensive. And they being overtaken by mirrorless equivalents. Little point and shoot cameras, on the other hand, will probably be replaced by phone cameras.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:05 - Mid roll ads 2:35 - Chapter 1 - Parking metres 3:55 - Chapter 2 - Fax machine 5:10 - Chapter 3 - Blu ray 7:00 - Chapter 4 - Desktop computers 8:45 - Chapter 5 - Petrol cars 10:35 - Chapter 6 - Disposable electric cigarettes 12:25 - Chapter 7 - Digital cameras

[@jennismith2]

The main reason people went to digital photography is because you don’t have to pay to have the photos developed. That was expensive! You’d pay $10 to develop a roll of film and maybe only half of the photos were any good (if you were lucky). But with digital cameras you could take as many pics as you wanted to and evaluate them for free

[@dinodinoulis923]

Yes, I had the “pleasure” of parking in an area where meters have been phased out recently. Parking now involves being forced to download an App, create an account and hand over reams of personal data, reply to an email that they send you to confirm creation of your account and to accept a 20 page long terms of service agreement, except that I never received an email and had to go through the whole process about 5 times before it finally worked and I could pay the charge so they now have my debit card information on their database too. The whole process took around 45 minutes and it was almost time for me to head back home. A massive feat of technological progress!

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

Apps for parking sucks - and the non-standard approaches results in so many errors and parking fines.

[@p5eudo883]

That's how it is to do laundry in some multi-unit residential buildings. I refuse. I will take my laundry to a laundromat every time before I will use an app to use a laundry machine. It should be illegal to require the use of an app for a basic service that can and/or has been perfectly functional without apps.

[@andrewbogard2411]

Where I live the city has both types of parking systems, they have parking lots that you use a app to pay and parking meters along the road.

[@Axonteer]

Tell that my mum, she just got a smartphone bc i gifted her one but using a payment app is beyond her, she doesnt have mobile data either due to cost. Luckily laws prevent most parking lot to remove physical money meters. As swiss francs are a legally to be accepted currency they cant opt out, but they do try hard

[@Roxor128]

Dedicated smartphone programs for services are a plague. If you can provide your service without a dedicated program, you have no reason to create one in the first place!

[@dev_null0]

My uncle in Japan does not have a PC, but he has a fax machine. Japan will never give up the fax machine.

[@marcbeebee6969]

😂 same in germany. Sometimes scary how simular our cultures are

[@amyhoard1222]

I'm sure there are many businesses that would rather use fax machines. You don't get a receipt, may need to search the spam folder, or god forbid accidentally delete something in your email which isn't a prob with a fax machine.

[@patvdleer]

Well they did just started giving up floppy disks

[@captainspaulding5963]

​@amyhoard1222 like Simon points out, law offices and hospitals still use fax machines every day

[@braedan51]

No no no, not again...

[@Belgianbanshee]

Desktops will probably stay around for a long time, thanks to the gaming community.

[@emilymathis4237]

I was gonna say, many many of my gen z peers have very nice gaming desktop setups

[@sagagis]

Scientific community has a contribution too. We (including me & and my current research) tend to do some of our some analyses/simulations on high end desktops time to time. This allows us not use supercomputers (aka high performance computers) all the time, hence a cheaper alternative occasionally.

[@Azarilh]

@@sagagis Same with the animation community. Need a very powerful PC to render quickly. I am sure other professional fields also require PCs, laptops are almost never the way, lmao.

[@mast3r1nk7]

Was about to say the samething.... Gaming, video editing and graphics designing will keep them alive for awhile longer

[@damianjblack]

Yep. A high end gaming laptop is still either prohibitively expensive, or runs so hot it'll burn a hole through your sofa. Desktops are where it will ALWAYS be at for gaming. It was thus when Quake II came out in 1997 and it's thus now.

[@michaelc2656]

I’m keeping my physical media and will continue to buy it in the future. Just recently I watched two movies, on streaming, even though I owned the DVDs. The streamed movies were “updated for a modern audience“. Scenes were cut, dialogue censored. So I will continue with uncensored physical media!

[@maggot216]

By any chance was one of them French Connection?

[@damianjblack]

@@maggot216 it was probably one of the original Star Wars movies, Lucas won't stop screwing with them.

[@loganmedia4401]

Your copy perhaps, but anyone buying a physical copy now will also get the altered version. For example where would you find a Blu-ray of the original Star Wars film as it was shown in the cinema?

[@ArtamStudio]

@@loganmedia4401 that's exactly the point. However, original VHS, LaserDisc (if you have said players and cords), and 2007 BluRay with both versions can be had on the second-hand market - or jump through hoops to acquire one of the fan-restored versions (for which you technically still need to own any BluRay of same title).

[@alanjameson8664]

I am old enough (77) to remember kerosene lamps and gas lighting, outdoor plumbing, wood stoves, stereoscopes, magneto telephones, shortwave radio and newsreels at the movie theaters. And a few other things. I clearly remember the first time I saw a television set (in the front window of a radio shop).

[@martingoldfire]

I still have outdoor plumbing. I used it just now, after laying some cable out in the shed, where my toilet is💩

[@Bobrogers99]

I'm older (85) and remember those things. In my rural area we appreciate having woodstoves, kerosene lamps and privies that function when the power is out. Cellphone service is marginal here, so some of us have kept our landlines. I even take good care of my wind-up wall clock!

[@fafnirevigt7362]

Oh you mean camping?

[@kevinkramer4310]

Wrong about digital cameras. You can not replace the physical effects of a bigger sensor and an array of lenses. Therefore digital cameras will stick around as long as phones dont get many times bigger.

[@smalltime0]

Are you saying a 3~4 mm sensor using a rolling shutter won't replace a 35mm sensor?! Yeah, you'd think people who use cameras as often as they do would know that. There are photos I've taken >15 yrs ago that still beat anything you can take on an iPhone/Pixel etc.

[@Daniel-rp7nb]

But most people wont care - real cameras will continue to be more and more niche

[@jimwalls904]

As almost any photographer will tell you, one the most important parts of a good camera system is the lens. That cheap plastic fixed lens on your phone is absolutely no comparison to a good lens.

[@odin4life]

@@jimwalls904for now, but this video didn’t say your full size equipment is obsolete today, but maybe in five years the differences will be negligible.

[@TheDarthDre]

I do think he is partially right on this one. It used to be that everyone needed some sort of digital camera to be able to snap a picture. now a days most people will find that there smartphone makes serviceable enough pictures. However. I do know that if you care about quality or have a professional need a dedicated digital camera (preferably with a changeable lens system) you will need a dedicated digital camera. I actually expected that they would say that small formfactor digital cameras where a dead market and that mirror reflex camera's are slowly being phased out in favor of mirror less cameras.

[@Immudzen]

4K blurays seem to be doing pretty well now. I would also say that streaming services seriously suck now. Content is spread among so many different services and older movies keep being removed. I gave up on streaming. Even the quality has gotten worse.

[@C0lon0]

Streaming has peaked, now is all downfall

[@ReplicantBattyman]

Also you dont know when something will be removed, or edited. At least when you buy a physical copy it will remain that way forever

[@SingBlueSilver-m7t]

There's also a lot of us out there that can't afford a monthly streaming service (or 3 or 4) so buying the one or two things we want on physical media is a lot more affordable.

[@newshodgepodge6329]

Ask Louis Rossmann about the difference between the streaming quality promised and the resolution that you actually get. He made a rant video about it a while back. No, I don't remember exactly when or the exact title of the video. But I'm pretty sure it was from earlier this year, so somewhere during the first half of 2024. Edit: typo

[@Immudzen]

@@newshodgepodge6329 I watched that video and replied to it at the time with the same kind of comment.

[@Rohirin]

With all due respect, I don't think that the desktop computer will ever truly be gone. With advancements in miniaturization, it might fully merge into something like an iMac on steroids. Having used a docking setup with my laptops, I can tell you that it made me long for the days of my simpler desktop setup.

[@albertamalachi3560]

I think it's more like, desktop and laptop being inconspicuous to one another. Especially with 3D printers running around, could end up with a rig that's powerful but sleek enough to carry around. People think miniaturisation stopped, frankly it still is ongoing.

[@Rohirin]

@@albertamalachi3560 Displays and other accessories will be the main difference. Now if you had a "core module" which you could swap between your laptop and desktop with all of the important guts in it, then that would be the best of both worlds. We've got some "laptops" which basically do that with your cell phone nowadays.

[@silversolver7809]

@@albertamalachi3560 Smaller devices need to solve the heat problem before they can up the power.

[@Grimjo16]

Even if they keep making them smaller PCs won't go away so long as people keep buying games on them and businesses need them for file keeping.

[@yayhandles]

@@albertamalachi3560 Except the same logic can be applied to the counter-point of that: As miniaturization becomes more potent, so too does the full-sized version operating on the same tech. The simple fact of the matter is that computing demands will continue to increase with hardware advancements, and the PC will simply always be better than the down-sized version for cutting-edge content/high-end apps. Gaming in general will only become an increasingly popular hobby/form of entertainment, and everyone wants to have a capable rig. With all of this in mind, consider how much cheaper it is to build a high-end PC than it is to buy a laptop of even near-similar capability.

[@Dragonmaster0118]

I will NEVER abandon having a Desktop. NEVER!

[@Roxor128]

And one of the worst things about laptops is the crappy keyboard, and somehow the manufacturers keep making the damn things even worse.

[@richard-davies]

Same, but only because it's my primary gaming system. I can get away with anything else for a desktop replacement for other stuff, but as a gaming system at least with current technology I'l be using a powerful self built desktop for quite some time yet.

[@damianjblack]

Same! Apart from anything else my 34" curved 3440x1440 monitor is a work of divine glory.

[@_Super_Hans_]

They have been saying the same thing about digital cameras for 20 years ever since the first camera phones started coming out. Professionals and enthusiasts will only ever use the very best equipment available on the market (within their price range). So until phone cameras become better than digital cameras which will never happen, they will never replace them.

[@VisibilityFoggy]

Yeah, he was referring to consumer-grade point-and-shoot cameras. DSLR and mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses aren't going anywhere for the simple fact that lenses require a camera body due to their size and level of customization in demand necessitates a link between the two, and digital zoom is still absolutely awful, even on the top-of-the-line mobile phones. We do a lot of news video at my company and while I personally have used phones for some professional story packages, it has to be either required due to time/breaking news constraints and generally will need stabilization using very expensive software. Optical zoom still has no real competitor in digital zoom, even with AI making an "educated guess" to clean up zoomed-in photos/video.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Yes there will be a place for dedicated cameras for professionals and special use cases but for everyone else a phone 🤳🏼 is the way to go. I'll be honest I was one of those camera 📸 fans with a camera bag and lense kits and dedicated flash and took my craft seriously being part of clubs and taking courses to perfect my craft. I've long sold them all off and everything on a phone now. ☹️

[@chaosfenix]

I will be one of those Hardcore Bluray collectors. Streaming sounds great until a show you want to watch can't be found or until the service through which you "purchased" a movie or show decides that your purchase no longer matters. I will also agree with desktops but in that I think people are also deploying more servers as well. Networking is so powerful now that you can simply access a powerful server from anywhere in the world even from your phone.

[@andrewbogard2411]

Desktops won't be going anywhere simply because of the gaming scene, you can upgrade the desktops graphics card and ram but you can't upgrade a laptops graphics card, for general consumers a laptop will do as well as a desktop.

[@chaosfenix]

@@andrewbogard2411 To that I would say that servers are just as easy to upgrade. Even easier many times because they have more PCIE lanes and CPU cores which means you can virtualize multiple machines giving your purchase a longer life. I can add a new GPU and simply pass it to a different VM when it comes time to upgrade. That VM can be used by my spouse or one of my kids. In the end the form factor for a server isn't all that different from a desktop PC but it's capabilities and how you use it are what makes it different.

[@RisingRevengeance]

I wonder if physical media will ever truly disappear. That just seems like inviting more piracy from those of us stubborn enough to insist on having the media. And yeah I'd say desktops may go away if small home servers somehow become mainstream but that seems unlikely. And I mean if that's the case... that's essentially just a desktop in another room so did it really go away?

[@H3LLGHA5T]

@@chaosfenix There's no replacement for real time rendering on site for gaming, latency is an issue that can't be solved by streaming.

[@themollerz]

@@andrewbogard2411 The thing is technology may very well leap processor wise to a point a desktop in the sense you think of today will seem as insane as the room sized calculators in the 40s.

[@thatswedishguy100]

claiming phones will replace real cameras just shows how poorly researched this video is. They have taken their part of the market, but the limitations of size and lenses means that they can never compete in telephotography or similar. No, your phone zoom is not comparable at all to even low end cameras. Same with displaying megapixels, a garbage metric used to scam customers. For 99% of daily photos you don't need more than 6. 12 is good enough for larger prints (after cropping) and 20 is borderline overkill for most users. Beyond that, except for extreme high end professional cameras, more megapixels means shittier camera. More pixels=smaller pixels=less light per pixel=shit quality photos. For this reason, several professional manufacturers have even started scaling down their megapixel count.

[@rsvpurgt]

💯

[@TheQuickSilver101]

This, exactly

[@odin4life]

But it’s believable that technological improvements will eventually allow the smallest camera to be as good as a current full size camera.

[@jec5476]

The best camera is the camera you have with you. For 99% of people, that's almost always going to be a phone rather than a camera. Cameras, like desktops, will still appeal to some people, but not the masses.

[@scottclark7559]

I still use the original Canon 1Ds...I think it was made in 2000? It's a dinosaur anyway...but it was an $8000 camera new, and was obviously made to last. It has a lot of limitations compared to a new camera...the big one being it's extremely iso limited. But, with studio light and an L lens the full frame 11 mp sensor still produces results better than my S23 Ultra. Big sensors and big lenses will have their place for a long time. That said, when I travel I usually just want to use my phone...and the S23 does make amazing images for something that fits in my back pocket.

[@curtislindsey1736]

Not all physical media is declining. Vinyl records are huge right now, even cassette tapes are making a come back. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

[@jack00scarecrow]

not compared to the 80s, tapes and vinyl were everywhere back then... that's all there was.

[@niveketihw1897]

Huge is a relative term. Vinyl has seen impressive growth, but is still a pretty tiny drop in the river.

[@macethorns1168]

It's absolutely bonkers to me that they're selling records for $30+/ea.

[@paysherdue9064]

No

[@DavidRamirez-vc8dr]

That’s a fad

[@geoffcarroll05]

I paid 10 dollars for 2 hr parking. Came back with 50mins left and had a 200$ ticket on my window. I got the lot guard fired

[@gastonpossel]

For casual use, yes smartphones have replaced digital cameras long ago with ever increasing image quality (with no small aid from AI image processing). But for specific/pro photography or filming, smartphones have a physical limitation that affects the raw posibilities and quality of the capture, which is sensor and lens size. Size affects the quantity of photons that enters each pixel (less photons, more gain needed, more noise), and size also affects the angle of incoming light and therefore the optical depth of field of the picture. Plus, you need space to have an optical zoom that retains the resolution if desired. So I think digital cameras without the space constraints of a smartphone will still be around for a while for specific and proffesional use.

[@TrowGundam]

Gaming laptops suck. And as long as that is true, you will NEVER take my Desktop computer away from me! Plus, a large part of the joy of computers, for me at least, is building the computer. I can't get that joy from piddly little laptop or tablet.

[@chaosfenix]

Pretty soon you will be building a gaming server instead. Remote Desktop applications have gotten really good and having a server you can access from anywhere in the world may be what replaces it. Currently Latency is what would be the biggest issue but if companies implemented JPEG XS on faster connections that would go away. JPEG XS is a lossless low latency encoding format. You can get up to 1440p60 on a gigabit connection which should be anywhere in your house and if you have 10Gig in your home you can get up to 8k60. They have modes for higher frame rates but you get the idea. If it can do 8k60 it should be able to do 4k240 at a similar bitrate.

[@PalmelaHanderson]

I have a gaming laptop that's actually pretty dope. It cost like 2-3x what similar hardware would have cost building a desktop, though. But you can't beat the convenience of having a fully functional gaming machine I can take anywhere in the world in my backpack.

[@trevorsmith4053]

I agree with @PalmelaHanderson I have a laptop that isn't even technically a gaming laptop it's more of a high-end professional laptop (i9 w/ gtx 4050) and it's plenty good for gaming, and before that I had one of the razor laptops and it was also great, I also have a mini PC that doesn't even have a dedicated gpu it has an amd apu and I think it games better than a ps5, I think most people highly overestimate there performance needs when it comes to PCs, you really can do a lot with less hardware these days

[@captainspaulding5963]

Laptops get used for FAR more than gaming.

[@Cdr_Mansfield_Cumming]

My ASUS ROG, 2TB SDD, NIVIDIA 4070, 64GB RAM is better than my 4 year old Desktop.

[@thomassherer8682]

Camera phones are perfect for social media, but Sideprojects and any other well produced video content is created using digital cameras. Ditto for wildlife and astrophotography.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Sure, pay no attention to movies and music videos that have been shot on IPhones over at least the past 5 years.

[@BigFatCone]

@@captainspaulding5963 According to Wikipedia and iMDB, that would be a total of five features films over the past five years. The Wiki page lists about 20 titles in total. So yes, it gets done. But it's not a thing.

[@rickmb67]

This video was brought to you by the same people who predicted the death of vinyl.

[@MrSeedi76]

And newspapers, and radio, and books, etc.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Vinyl has made a rather impressive comeback in the form of a hobbyist interest, but let’s not kid ourselves - when compared to streaming, it’s hardly a blip on the chart

[@pensivepenguin3000]

@@MrSeedi76 dude nobody’s reading newspapers or listening to CDs lol. And by “nobody,” I mean most ordinary average consumers, which is what we’re talking about when we discuss these broader trends. You can always find some weirdo sitting in a basement with a ham radio or some shit. That doesn’t represent the consumption habits of most people 😂

[@djtomoy]

I’m just waiting for this internet thing to blow over, I refused to let my business use it back in 1996 and I stand by that decision today even though I lost all my customers and was bankrupt by 2003, wife left, dog died, life ruined. But once the internet is over I’m sure I’ll bounce back and will be selling generic toilet cleaners again in no time.

[@speedandstyletony]

Digital cameras may become more niche, but they will not go away. Heck, film is making a comeback! Pentax just released the first new 35mm film camera in 20 years last week, with preorders selling out in days. Film stocks that were discontinued have been brought back in the last few years as well. Digital photography is a hundred times more popular than film right now so it is going anytime soon.

[@marcwilke2521]

The camera is unlikely to be replaced because a phone, no matter how good,. is simply less capable. Good optics are complex and require space. Hell, afaik, there is not even a single phone left that has a variable aperture, one of the most important features of the optical system.

[@justingrey6008]

Don't forget sensor size, 1sq inch is more capable then 1sq mm. (Sorry for the mixed units, don't care enough to convert)

[@JonMartinYXD]

@@justingrey6008 A square inch is 645.16 square millimetres.

[@justingrey6008]

@@JonMartinYXD exactly.

[@BishjamIC]

I'm a hobby photographer, actually in the film medium. But the ability to use different lenses is one way that standalone camera is superior to a phone camera. Not that eventually it may not be a thing but it might be further down the line than one might think. Plus there are always devotees of antiquated things. I'm also a hobby woodworker, mostly to the hand tool bent. There is a surprising number of folks who are also interested in hand tools woodwork in a world of power tools being the way to make things en masse.

[@ackbarfan5556]

Aren’t young people also making the camera having a come back; especially if folks want to hold an actual photo and not give out their phone’s camera roll?

[@theAessaya]

Mobile phones will never replace proper cameras, digital or otherwise, for one simple reason: you just can't cheat physics. Larger sensor of comparable quality will _always_ be better than a smaller one. And yes, ability to swap and choose lens for a specific purpose will also be their other great benefit. The pocket point-and-shoot ones? Well, those are a wholly different thing, and might as well be already replaced.

[@alexlock3176]

@@theAessaya It's not just the sensor... light gathering depends on glass and you can't cheat physics there either. Unless someone figures out how to connect a big hunk of telephoto or macro glass to a smart phone it will never be replaced for things like wildlife, sports, product, etc photography.

[@theAessaya]

@@alexlock3176 these do go together hand in hand indeed. Basically anywhere you need a more specialized instrument you're going to _keep_ needing a more specialized instrument. And smartphones will do what they do best -- tiny overprocessed pictures for places where people don't care about quality -- social media.

[@matthew.datcher]

5:05 The loss of physical media pains me the most. Especially, now that the streaming services and distributors have shown complete disdain for filmmakers and film watchers by ripping away movies or not even showing them in the first place. You will take my Blu-ray collection from my cold dead hands.

[@ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE]

According to data from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), shipments of compact discs rose from 31.6 million in 2020 to 46.6 million in 2021 - a rise of 47 per cent. Revenue also rose from $483.2 million to $584.2 million. The last time sales of CDs were on the up was in 2004. CD sales peaked in 2000, when nearly a billion discs were shipped in the US alone.

[@jonfreeman9682]

Sadly that's where your Blu-ray will remain... with you to your resting place. Nobody wants them anymore.

[@ADBLOCKER4YOUTUBE]

@@jonfreeman9682 Naive

[@jum5238]

@@jonfreeman9682 You can pick them up at goodwill stores now.

[@Bobrogers99]

Imagine the chaos that would result if the Internet suffered a prolonged collapse. What if one of the major data centers was somehow destroyed? How much information could be lost? Depending on fragile electronic storage to maintain our civilization could prove to be a big mistake.

[@Starman.2112]

Bluray isnt dead. In fact, there may be a big return since all streaming platforms have massively stripped out all of their content. People will need to buy movies again to watch them. second, 4K blurays with lossless video/audio are still sugnifcanly better to watch on any decent setup them compressed streaming versions.

[@thehellsage]

There may not be a choice, if disc manufacturers stop production

[@brettthemonster]

Digital cameras are absolutely not going anywhere anytime soon. People said the same thing about film cameras decades ago.

[@ryans_myth]

There needs to be a distinction when you say "digital camera". Yes, point-and-shoot cameras are a thing of the past. However, physical size limitations of lenses and sensors mean that SLR cameras are going nowhere. I don't know a single professional photographer who would actively choose their smartphone over a DSLR for several reasons. I'm sure there are some photographer who prefer a smartphone but their photography would be improved by using a camera with moving pieces and a larger sensor

[@ramblinman4197]

I am an amateur photographer and I would never give up having a zoom lens camera. Physical zoom is superior to digital.

[@kalimaxine]

@@ramblinman4197 Same

[@25Leprechaun]

I'm not entirely knowledgeable about cameras but from what I understand one reason why professionals do use DSLRs is picture resolution. If I remember correctly because the sensor is larger a photo that has to say be blown up to the size of a billboard would look a lot better if photographed on a DSLR vs a smartphone camera.

[@BigFatCone]

@@25Leprechaun Pretty much every stand-alone camera on the market today, DSLR or not, have larger sensors than phones.

[@H3liosphan]

Yes. This is a pretty terribly researched video to be honest!

[@Sammael251]

I like most of Simon's takes, but desktop computers aren't going away any time soon

[@macethorns1168]

In fairness, it's not **his** take, it's the person who wrote what he's reading.

[@captainspaulding5963]

These aren't "Simon's Takes", he's reading a script

[@seandelap8587]

I wonder what Simon Whistler would be doing if the Internet was never invented

[@seasonallyferal1439]

Selling coke

[@michaelo5665]

​@@seasonallyferal1439 or cosmetics like an Avon lady from my youth.

[@Princess_Mitty]

He would use the Avon salesman pitch as a cover for selling coke to bored housewifes

[@PHelsing]

@@seasonallyferal1439 or he would be an alex jones impersonator

[@seijunsejuki]

Digital cameras aren't going anywhere, not as long as professional photographers exist.

[@koppadasao]

There will always be those of us that would rather put their hands around a large one eyed brick, than using our phones for photography.

[@6JackOfClubs9]

I once managed to do my entire Christmas shopping in HMV in around 45 mins. True story.

[@jackphillips3512]

ICE vehicles will be in the USA for quite awhile longer. EVs are not quite fully practical for our distances. We have people that commute 80 miles one way. While that range is within most EVs (as I understand it now), chargers at work are not common. Additionally, the cost will have to come down considerable. Most of the vehicles where I live, in rural USA, are probably around $5000 or so. EVs, even used, will be significantly more expensive for the foreseeable future.

[@MAGAMike827]

Exactly. People don't understand just how large the United States is. We have States that are larger than most countries in Europe. EV's aren't practical for most Americans that live outside of NYC, LA, Chicago and other big cities.

[@sydhenderson6753]

Hybrids are a better bet in the US.

[@jackphillips3512]

@@sydhenderson6753 Hydrogen would be good. It would be cheaper to convert a lot of ICE to Hydrogen. Yeah, it is less green than EV because the cheapest way to get H is to make it from fossil fuel but it is a good transition until solar powered electrolysis (H from H2O) becomes available.

[@H3LLGHA5T]

EVs won't win over ICEs in Europe either, people also commute a lot here for not insignificant distances, also the cities are old and there's no space for huge charging lots and people don't have garages to charge them at home for the most part.

[@macethorns1168]

It's infuriating that our tax dollars are being spent to subsidize an industry that would otherwise not be going anywhere. I mean FFS, nearly all of the electricity for these cars comes from burning coal and gas.

[@sbsstorytelling]

I was with you until petrol cars. Screw your glorious beard for including this. Mad Max here I come!

[@LilRebelYell]

Until electric cars have the range, ease of recharging and reliability in all weather,things EVs are woefully short as of now, the ICE will continue to dominate the traveling public... As long as they have the choice!

[@johnpetrakis379]

Yep, howsabout "electric airplanes"

[@evilempryss]

The only motivation behind getting rid of coin-op parking meters is greed. Gone soon are the days where you can cruise down a street and see that empty parking spot with a meter flashing a beautiful green light, the bounty of the previous parker having put more time on it than they needed. Now, with app-based payments tied to your license plate, a single parking spot can be paid out for more minutes than there are in a day. Did the person who just pulled away pay for an hour but only use 10 minutes? Too bad. You have to pay for that time again with your own plate number. Oh, yeah, and a lot of parking apps charge processing fees on top of the parking rates. It's a money grab, plain and simple.

[@AudraK]

The only thing I like about the current meter and app setup compared to cameras is that the city I work in doesn’t always patrol the spots by the time I get to work. Meaning that I never have to pay to park. I will always take a $30 ticket once or twice a year compared to a $10 charge each day. But It’s so situationally specific that I know my experience doesn’t matter in respect to everyone else actually having to pay to park

[@p5eudo883]

The processing fees keep getting worse too. To pay rent at some places, you have to pay through a third-party service. They charge a service fee of about $7 to pay your rent here. That's on top of the fee you pay for using a credit card, e-check, or other methods. You literally have to pay to pay. These scams are out of control.

[@lordhades9736]

I find it a little bit insulting the Simon forgot that us gamers also need ultra high end Desktop PCs.

[@3isr3g3n]

Streaming sucks. I've recently cancelled my Sky and Prime subs and switched go selfhosting + buying Blurays. You can rip your dvds and blurays and host them on a NAS, combine it with a Media Player like Nvidia Shield or a good Bluray player and there you go. Oh and don't forget your backups.

[@ColeyDuncan]

My wife runs a pharmacy, and they use the hell out of a fax machine. I've helped her out doing grunt work at her stores, and it blew my mind about sending faxes. She had to show me how to use it. And I'm coming up on 40, as well as an Air Force vet who has sent many classified emails, but only a handful of faxes. Craziness.

[@captainspaulding5963]

Because the only way most hospitals and law offices accept official paperwork is by fax! They aren't going anywhere any time soon

[@andrewlindhjem1662]

You can't digitally alter a facsimile.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Faxes may have fallen from mainstream but are now a specialty item. It will never be made redundant so long as there remain tasks for it in specific jobs. They are still a strong form of document communication where internet is unavailable.

[@TunaSoda]

Send the pharmacy a black 20 page pdf...🤣

[@lordMartiya]

Physical media are going to make a comeback because of the streaming services, and especially their attitude.

[@drewisaac9884]

Media preservation is also becoming a major concern among many different Fandoms and one of the major downsides of digital media is that you don't actually own it.

[@lordMartiya]

@@drewisaac9884 Precisely. Increasing prices, willingness to delete shows just because (see Infinity Train, now impossible to watch legally), and probably other stuff I don't know about...

[@bicyclelife7088]

You can't do office work on your phone. Desktops will still exist for office and public use as you can't just walk off with them and slip them in your pocket.

[@dreamboards1056]

My pre teen son found my old DSLR "Whats it do" Photos and video "Thats all" Yup " Its huge" Yup

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

Desktops remain a solid fixture in the commercial and educational sectors. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC), PC sales shot up 14.8% between 2020 and 2021 and desktop market grew faster than the laptop market in the second quarter of 2021.

[@StupidGeniuses]

Desktops may get smaller but aren't going away, the customization alone will keep it going. They said the same thing about faxes 10 years ago and it will always be more secure than the internet and more reliable.

[@wroomwroomboy123]

We already got some super low demand Linux OS' that can run from USB drives and display rather good performances. With the insane form of user inconvenience practices and invasive cloud enforcement Microsoft and Apple currently exhibit, people are collectively gonna migrate towards Linux-like systems, not necessarily as their main system, but have NAS home systems for pirated material and have an ITX sized desktop installed in their living room, which will be hooked up to the TV for casual consumerism and to a a monitor on the desktop for production and non-casual gaming purposes. Yes that last part I truly do believe, because people are gonna pirate more again since streaming services are no longer more convenient than pirating. So having a split-screen outlet will be very convenient and we can use a phone app as the PC mouse. Linux systems are experiencing an insane interest tick right now, actual user numbers still grow slow - but the general internet mentions of Linux are way up and if Microsoft or Apple proceed with their way, people are gonna use their products less.

[@tracyrreed]

Fax isn't at all more secure. It gets converted to digital on your T-1 or whatever your POTS line becomes after it leaves your office and gets sent over the same digital lines as your Internet only without any encryption. Worse, you can just clip a couple of leads onto the analog line, record it, and play the sound into the line in on your sound card and trivially decide it. It's less secure in every way.

[@nolarobert]

I hope that Blu-rays stick around for decades to come. I buy Blu-rays to have a physical copy of the movies and TV shows that I love that can't be altered or hidden behind a paywall by a streaming service. I also love the hours of extras that come on a Blu-ray that isn't available from a streaming service. Buying Blu-rays is also a way to let the studios know that fans support a series so they will renew shows.

[@MysteicVoltronus]

Desktop have been "about to be a thing of the past" for like 20 years. Laptops didn't kill them then and never will. PC gamer 4 life.

[@vonwux]

Remember that time Simon said desktop computers won't be around much longer? Oh how we laughed.

[@DFSJR1203]

I remember phones that had a rotary dial and no buttons. When I take pictures I still use my Pentax K-1000 film camera. I prefer it to smart phone camera's because I am usually doing Astro Photography and the film camera allows me to do things the smart phone just can not do.

[@justins9886]

Desktops will not disappear as long as they still make PC games. Gasoline powered vehicles will not be replaced, not as long as there is still oil that can be sold. Not to mention that many of those pledges will be reversed by the next administration in their respective countries.

[@Tomberculosis-q1i]

That's a unique way of saying we're fucked

[@Yltimate_]

Came here to say this TY

[@justins9886]

@@Tomberculosis-q1ihaha. Very true

[@Shoelessjoe78]

​@@Tomberculosis-q1iBut it's realistic...

[@justins9886]

@@Yltimate_🫡

[@JasonTheOneAndOnly]

Man, i remember when blu-ray came out, I disagree with the Desktop PC, they are actually booming atm. I also don't think combustion engines will die out until something better than electric comes along.

[@bugstomper4670]

I only buy CDs, DVDs, & Blu-Ray, because at some point, you'll wish you had actual physical media, rather than virtual media. that you can't get access to anymore.

[@SpiritmanProductions]

2:28 Lol, the measurement is 'metre' but for devices it's 'parking meter', 'gas meter', etc. ;-)

[@ecocodex4431]

The first 30 seconds of the video sounds like Simon had far too many martinis

[@DenethordeSade.90]

I had to go back but you're right lol

[@stickynorth]

I thought I had when I saw that. Nope, I'm sober he's drunk...

[@sturod2016]

Lol. I thought it was me. … the whole video has terrible audio …. Whistling esses everywhere.

[@stickynorth]

ecigarettes aren't going anywhere not are their adult Canadian cousins 510 cannabis cartridges... Market data here shows they are still going in popularity vs blunts and bongs for their discreet, simplicity and yes cleaner burning vapor... And while the cancer risk isn't zero (nothing is including x-rays and coffee) it's still 99% less than traditional means of consumption...

[@skycloud4802]

I think I read somewhere that those carts are causing the biggest surges in vape deaths and lung collapses.

[@LscottD]

@@skycloud4802 it was because of homes made ones. They added other thing. So then big brother did what they always do and spread the lie it was all carts .

[@LordOfNihil]

young people think phones are the future. wait till their vision starts going as they age. a phone will never give you a 40 inch screen.

[@t.j.giroux5936]

Man I remember the days before the internet. What a wild time to be alive.... having to go to the library to do school projects was great. Thinking back on it brings back some found memories.

[@Bobrogers99]

As a retired teacher and a current library trustee, I have pointed out to parents that there is so much garbage on the Internet, much of it inaccurate, sexually explicit and politically biased, and that a good librarian will guide researchers to more reputable sources. Some of the better sources publish their information in print, since then it can't be altered, misquoted or removed to a paysite.

[@praetorian65]

I have to disagree with the writers on a couple of points. Firstly, laptops aren't more convenient than desktops as, if you don't need to move your laptop ever, they just take up a lot more space than a desktop as, if you are using big monitors and a real keyboard, the laptop has to move out of the way onto a stand. I foresee small form factor PCs becoming more popular. Secondly, digital cameras aren't going anywhere. While the party snaps may now be done on a phone, anything requiring a longer zoom (sports and wildlife) or just higher quality requires a dedicated camera. The ergonomics of a phone just don't work for long zoom photography, and physics means they just can't achieve the same quality with such a small sensor. Phones have indeed killed the compact camera market, but interchangeable lens camera sales has been increasing for the last few years in both quantity and value.

[@abnurtharn2927]

Yea, well back in the late 80s they said that cellphones never would get smaller. Newspapers was supposed to be gone before 2000, so was the use of paper, and we still use both. I am all in for reduction in use of fossil fuel, but EVs are not the way to go, the production of batteries is not environmently friendly, and also requires a lot of energy. And good luck trying to sell a 10 year old used EV. In some parts of Europe, the electric cigarettes are being forbidden is because the respective state/government or country isn´t making money in tax or fee on them like they do on regular tobacco. The same with gasoline and diesel, in countries like Norway, the fuel is in average $2,5 pr liter.

[@ramblinman4197]

Ironically, phones got much smaller and are now getting larger again. LOL. I agree regarding EVs. Part of the problem with the EV is the batteries are so large they add a lot of weight, which causes the cars to need to be larger, which means you need more power to move them. Somewhat of a vicious circle. And the battery production, as you pointed out, is horrible on the environment in the areas where the minerals are mined.

[@unknownrat2675]

Physical media is making a resurgence, partly because of Internet speeds and coverage, but mainly because they can5 change what you see based on current beliefs

[@MrInitialMan]

I think physical media is making a resurgence because of the stunts streaming services have pulled.

[@drewisaac9884]

That and also the increasing intensity of the streaming wars has made people lose confidence in the convenience of streaming as a whole. Many people would resort to piracy as a result but for the few people who actually want to support the creators of their favorite media, physical media is the only other option.

[@MrInitialMan]

@@drewisaac9884 I think one of the biggest blows to streaming was the discontinuation of Flash. And didn't Microsoft have an online library that they shut down?

[@tehfiredog]

Desktops aren't going away any time soon. Major manufactures have been backing away from EV's more recently, for a host of reasons. Also, oil IS a finite resource but one we aren't running out of any time soon and one that doesn't require the exploitation of 3rd world battle torn countries to produce. While camera phones have made the need for a digital camera disappear for the average person, that really isn't going to impact things on the professional level.

[@SeverityOne]

It ought to be mentioned that the oil-producing countries aren't exactly beacons of stability and prosperity for all.

[@yayhandles]

Worth noting: The video DID mention, from the outset, that the main reason petroleum vehicles are likely to disappear in the near-ish future has less to do with manufacturers or resource availability, and everything to do with climate legislation. Otherwise, yeah, agreed.

[@andrewbogard2411]

I think gasoline vehicles themselves might stop being produced but plug in hybrids would be pushed more as the addition of a electric drive function makes it rely on gas way less

[@johnathin0061892]

Domestic oil is peaceful. Dependency on foreign oil or minerals from terrible nations is not.

[@aac993]

Blu-Ray sales are dwindling because no one carries them anywhere anymore.

[@nowt2957]

There is something people forget about separate digital cameras - they're not your phone. So the camera can be smaller, easier to attach to things, more resilient and if you lose it you don't lose access to your bank account and the rest of your data until you get a replacement and jump through hoops to gain access again - for example if filming on a boat and dropping the camera in the water. So, yes, digital cameras will become like cameras used to be - a more specialised field - but I can't see them going anywhere soon.

[@mattyt1961]

Exactly, and because of the lesser resale market, it is less of a theft risk. Pull out your phone and I can see what model you have, I know how much that costs etc that makes you a better target for thieves. Digital camera? you might have the latest flagship or a cheaper entry level I don't know.

[@captainspaulding5963]

And in that same vein, if you lose a good digital camera, you are out potentially a couple thousand dollars. I take pictures all the time, but I never take my camera out of the house unless I'm specifically going out looking to take pictures. My phone is far more convenient, has amazing camera options, and it isn't one more thing I need to worry about keeping track of.

[@chrisbenn]

What are you guys filming this video on? An iPhone?

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Oh. My. God. You guys finally have a thumbnail with the correct use of “its”. I’m so proud of you!

[@thomasthompson5613]

And they managed to fuck up their promocode

[@bluegold1026]

I never understood the appeal of streaming. You can't use it unless you have an internet connection, right? So what happens when you have no means to access the internet? That's why I'm holding onto my DVDs and other physical media.

[@JR-Mystic]

No means to access the internet? You might as well be asking what to do when the electricity cuts out.

[@lordnevets9184]

Selfies on phones is the equivalent of seeing your reflection in a spoon. The width of a lens is important. Digital cameras will always be here.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Simon is hilariously honest with his sponsor spots. I’m not a fan of this stuff, but you might like it 😂

[@rhonaldjr]

Sorry, Desktops are not going to go obsolete anytime soon. They are freakishly powerful. Maybe reduced production, but it's going to stay. The same goes for the dedicated Cameras. Film cameras aee making a come back too.

[@oscarmike47]

im dissapointed in simon this time round. as a gamer and amateur photographer i know desktop pc's and digital cameras earnt going anywhere. i have full respect for the amazing tech in phone cameras these days but they will always be limited by one thing. the glass. it comes down to physics. a larger lens will always let in more light. and you will never be able to replace a full frame 17 optic lens with a tiny sliver of glass. digital cameras will become less mainstream for sure but the professional and enthusiast sector will aways use them over phone cameras. i dont see wedding photographers walking around with i phones any time soon. hell theres even still a thriving community that shoots film. same goes for desktop pc's. simon has seriously underestimated the multi billion dollar industry that is the gaming industry, and gamers themselves. gamers will always want the fastest, more fps, higher resolution etc. again it comes down to physics. the reason desktop pc's will always be more powerful than laptops is cooling. yeah you could try to pump 850w into a laptop but you will never cool it. and due to battery constraints of laptops due to travel laws batteries will never keep up with a plugged in desktop in terms of power output. as graphics cards get more powerful game developers push the limits. even now with the insane processing power of say a rtx 4090 there are games coming to market which will put them through their paces. not to mention a lot of gamers love to build their own pc's its part of the fun. and u cant really build your own laptop. laptops might become the mainstream but there will aways be kids and kids wanna game. and they want a box with flashing rainbow barf not a boring laptop that can barely run minecraft with the latest shaders.

[@amaccama3267]

No parking meters means no parking inspectors. Who am I going to beat up now?

[@kittyhawk9707]

Your mom

[@LightBlueVans]

me, let’s go 🥊

[@amaccama3267]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@llynllydaw]

No-one, just like now. And in any case, parking inspectors can and do check app payments now.

[@milasudril]

A laptop: Trades some performance and most options for upgrades for space and weight A desktop: Trades space and power draw for performance and options for upgrades A server: Trades raw throughput for low latency access A laptop may be suitable for office work (they have always been), but is not sufficient for heavier applications like Blender. Add to that, if you need a good set of speakers, and/or a large monitor, you can probably afford a full-sized desktop as well. Some people that do not need to do computing tasks "out-of-office", may also think that it is easier to place a tower, since it can be put at the side under the desk.

[@frankcarter6427]

we didn't believe the prime minister, he's no longer the prime minister

[@jamessaintjames1387]

You're totally wrong about cameras. Take a photo in raw on your smartphone and you will see the difference with a shot taken in raw with a proper camera. The thing that makes smartphone pics look good is totally the software. This limits what professional photographers can do with them.

[@geraldstiling3735]

For anything that you want to archive DO NOT USE DIGITAL... Film 📽️🎞️ will last a lot longer than SD cards or hard drives..

[@jonc-1989]

Though digital can be easily backed up multiple times in multiple locations

[@TerrySterling-Thatguy]

Data Rot may be a thing but there are several semi-analog solutions that work better than film. Tape drives for digital storage still exists and lasts longer than camera film. It also heavily depends on storage conditions.

[@silversolver7809]

Not true, as others above have pointed out. A piece of film may last longer than a piece of digital storage, but latter is so much cheaper that it's no contest to keep all your stuff in a number of digital locations-which will last as long as you keep cycling them.

[@JMurdochNZ]

It really won't. It will wear out, and if there's an issue with storage conditions that can affect it too. That's why keeping more than one copy of anything you care about is absolutely critical.

[@nbarnes6225]

Tell me you never used a cassette deck or VCR without telling me....😅 Also? Film is HIGHLY flammable and disintegrates very easily. Why do you think places like the Library of Congress are working so hard to digitize everything?

[@JoffesThoughts]

Absolutely wrong about digital cameras, and if you've seen photos taken on modern DSLR or mirrorless cameras, even relatively low-end ones, you'll absolutely know that there's a huge difference between smartphone cameras and digital cameras. Smartphone companies like to one up each other by producing sensors with ever increasing megapixel numbers, but as long as their sensors are smaller (due to the fact that they're contained within a smartphone), they'll always be limited by having a small sensor size, which won't allow them to fapture as much light as a digital camera sensor. Bigger sensor size allows for better image quality, shallower depth of field, and better dynamic range. Also, digital cameras give you a lot more flexibility with zoom than smartphone cameras. Yes, many smartphones have telephoto lenses which let you zoom in on your subject, but they're typically fixed at that level of zoom, so if you want to zoom in further your phone just uses digital zoom, which is basically a way of cropping the image, and it doesn't preserve image quality. Yes, there are a few smartphones with telephoto lenses that have a range through which they can losslessly zoom, but they're typically quite a small range like 2.5x to 5x zoom. 5x or 10x optical zoom on a smartphone is considered really powerful. 16x optical zoom on a digital camera lens isn't even that unusual. Also, the telephoto lens will be in front of a different (and usually worse) camera sensor than the main camera lens. If you want to switch to a telephoto lens on a digital camera, you can take off your non-telephoto lens, and throw on your telephoto lens using the same sensor. Also with lenses, digital cameras let you use lenses with variable apertures, letting you do more with depth of field. Yeah, there a few smartphone cameras that have variable aperture lenses, but they don't really compare with lenses for digital cameras, eepecially given the smaller sensor sizes on smartphones. Some smartphones are capable of creating a little bit of natural background blur, but the portrait mode on your phone is generated digitally, and that's why it might sometimes blur out a little bit of the subject, or fail to blur out something in the background. Unrelated, but I wish companies would stop adding useless 2-10MP macro cameras that nobody uses to smartphones. You get a better image using the main sensor and digitally cropping in than with those.

[@DarthBludgeon]

Don't count out "Petrol" cars just yet... with most electric car producers scratching their heads trying to figure out how to make cars that don't burst into flames at random, and the fact that our electrical grids can't possibly supply enough electricity to power enough vehicles to replace the IC engine, it will be easier and cheaper to replace the governments than the cars.

[@rapturesrevenge]

I have a laptop. I have a smartphone. I will ALWAYS use a desktop computer. I use my desktop for gaming, photo editing, creating art, and writing. The laptop is convenient for keeping myself entertained and connected on the go, and of course the phone is, of course, my phone, but it neither will replace my desktop. I will also keep using a camera. I can do more with an actual camera than I can with my smartphone. Zooming in with a phone's camera function does not get the crisper, clearer shots that I can get by simply swapping lenses. Cameras and desktops won't be relegated to the history books and museums for a long, long time.

[@b1ckdrgn]

The gaming industry is bigger than the entire film industry and music industry combined - the majority of that is console and mobile sales, but a very significant portion is PC sales. Desktop gaming rigs are going no where anytime soon, especially since the majority of them can also be used exceptionally well for graphic design, 3D animation and art.

[@scottjackson1420]

"Not around?" When I was in high school, my dad taught me how to use a slide rule. When I was a senior, he bought a very high quality one that he said would have cost a bunch back in the 1950's but he got it for a song. I still have it. So, I guess that slide rules are still "around." So even truly obsolete technologies never really go away. Blu-ray? Geez, I use mine every week. And hey, my DVD machines still get used, too! Now that movie companies are editing their old content because they're "problematic," if you don't have a DVD released back when the movie was less than a year old, then you may not have the actual product that was in theaters. Gasoline automobiles will be around for at least a century. Is crude oil really becoming scarce? The idea for Tesla type cars to take over? Just think about the amount of cost to the environment that it takes to produce them? E-cigarettes? They can't leave fast enough. Digital cameras? We have about four of them, and haven't actually picked one up in five years. All of these technologies will be around for decades.

[@BLACKAAROW]

at least in america, they will never get away with banning the sale of new gas cars...unless they want to cause a riot. it's much easier to get away with stuff like that in Europe since most people there are used to just doing whatever the gov't says without resisting for the most part

[@SeverityOne]

@@BLACKAAROW Cripes, could you make a more inane comment than that? Probably, but let's not go there. ICE cars will go the way of the dodo as soon as it becomes economically no longer viable to extract oil from some politically volatile country like those in the Middle East, Russia, or the USA, and ship it halfway across the world whilst trying to dodge Somalian pirates and Houthi rockets. The more EVs there are, the more expensive ICE cars will become. So you can spray paint 'FREEDOM!' as much as you want on your pick-up truck, but manufacturers aren't going to produce them just because you like them so much. If they can't make enough money, they're gone.

[@MrSeedi76]

​@@BLACKAAROWcombustion engines aren't going anywhere over here (Europe) either. The laws have recently been changed. The reason is "zero carbon synthetic fuel" made by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and basically turning it into gasoline. In theory (if you ignore the secondary effects from making it) that type of synthetic fuel could be used to have a zero emission car even with combustion engine. The technology was already developed years back but wasn't economically viable back then.

[@FNLNFNLN]

@@BLACKAAROW More like Europe is less into fighting the government on every issue regardless if the thing the government is doing is good or not. The US government puts out a recommendation that gas stoves are bad for your lungs (because no shit breathing in combustion products are bad for your lungs), and certain very special segments of the US population come out in droves to scream about the tyrannical government banning gas stoves.

[@VisibilityFoggy]

@@BLACKAAROW First thing - I've been in enough traffic jams in Europe where I don't think any of this is going away any time soon. But overall, it has less to do with government and more to do with population density. Europeans tend to live in cities and large towns where EVs (plus walking and public transportation) are more practical. The United States is a physically massive place to begin with, it has an excellent network of interstate highways, and it is far less popular to live in major cities with metro systems than it is to live in sprawling suburban areas where vehicles are required (the train station is six miles away from me, for example, and I'm not walking 12 miles per day). European elections actually show a more conservative/libertarian bent becoming more mainstream lately.

[@yosconisi]

Fax machines aren't going anywhere. They are required by law for doctors in the US to use them

[@stickynorth]

I wondered why the medical industry is the primary user of them including pharmacies. They fax prescriptions from pharmacy to pharmacy instead of emailing and I always wondered why. Makes sense...

[@BLACKAAROW]

@@stickynorth I think its bc fax machines are more secure for sending sensitive documents. it's alot easier to intercept/hack emails than a fax machine

[@mattyt1961]

@@BLACKAAROW it also allows for 'originals' to be sent so getting signatures are more reliable rather than potentially stuck onto an image.

[@RS-ls7mm]

Just like pagers.

[@RS-ls7mm]

@@BLACKAAROW Actually fax machines are being hacked as a back door into your network. They have no firewall.

[@krispee5842]

I'm gonna say that so long as laptops keep getting thinner and more difficult to upgrade and repair, there will always be some desktop users. I specifically use a desktop because of the promise that I can do just that.

[@jackthompson8377]

Don’t ignore the retro phenomenon. In photography film cameras are making a strong return. Why? The tactile feel of the camera and the feedback you get when taking a photo.

[@DavidGreen-hp5yq]

Nope, my desktop was won over stupid sh*tphones.

[@DavidGreen-hp5yq]

Fossile-NOT fuel -- will outlast Governments.

[@Caleb-qr6lo]

Sad that Blu-ray is going away. Streaming video platforms quality is often very low. Also I doubt petrol/gas powered cars are going to be ended by those dates. The political swing will probably remove those deadlines or continuously push them back.

[@MrSeedi76]

The deadline has already been removed in Europe because of "e-fuel".

[@ihopethiscommentisntabusiv4670]

bluerays not going away anytime soon, people still want the higher quality image and audio

[@stickynorth]

Nope. They are the new VHS/DVD... A physical media that is still superior in almost every way... HD capable, cheap to produce, durable..ish...

[@MravacKid]

Man, I haven't used a fax machine in over 20 years, and I'm fairly sure I haven't seen one in years either. :) And even though I've never had a bluray player (or, actually, seen one except the consoles) I very much don't want the physical media to go away but rather become more durable. I also very much disagree on cameras, the very fact that smartphones lack swappable lenses (and various fiddly bits on them) means they're nowhere near as useful to anyone with even a passing interest in photography. Sure, for everyday use and user smartphones are much more practical, but DSLR's weren't for the everyday user anyway.

[@jaynedavies2757]

There are just so many features on DVD'S that are not capable of being reproduced on streaming sites, and can be lost in time.

[@aaronmills4238]

And Blu-Ray DVDs where ridiculously priced

[@kittyhawk9707]

You ..on the other hand

[@justins9886]

Hello all, hope everyone has a great day.

[@kittyhawk9707]

I didn't! I ate my own head ... so you suck

[@AeroGuy07]

Petrol powered vehicles aren't going anywhere.

[@JestersDeadUK]

Physical Media should NEVER die

[@stickgarrote8582]

The desktop is not going away until laptops become repairable again. The proposition of buying a 1000€ laptop with half the power and half the lifespan of a 1000€ desktop doesn’t make financial sense for many applications. In 10 years, your desktop may have had a few part upgrades but you’ll be on your third laptop.

[@jum5238]

Still running with a 11 yr old desktop system w/32 GB of memory. I buy top of the line at the time and it serves me well for a long time.