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It goes without saying, DVDs/BlueRays.

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 18 minutes ago

If anything I think DVDs and Blu-rays are going to rise. All across the media landscape people seem to be getting annoyed with the "own nothing" society we're in. The thrift stores are full of thousands of DVDs for barely any cost. Last week I bought the Matrix 2 and 3 and Der Untergang in DVD for like 3 bucks. Way easier than figuring out in which streaming service to watch them and what OS and browser will let it play at HD resolution. Once "the youth" picks up on this like they did with CDs and digicams the DVD will be back.

Recently In bought a Blu-ray of Star Wars Andor because I love the series and want to support it, but Disney+ wouldn't play beyond 480p on my setup. My trusty old PS3 plays it like a dream and the resulting image is ridiculously sharp compared to streaming.

CDs, cassettes, and vinyl are already booming or in the rise again. And the streaming audio landscape is arguably way nicer than the streaming video lanschape. In photography there's also a wave of film and early digital camera hype.

I hope that the next 10 years brings the resurgence of the physical medium and ownership. And if not that, the resurgence of the high seas.

[–] feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Cash, at least in europe. In my opinion that decision would mark one of the most epic political fails in recent history but I fear, that's what's going to happen.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

Please be "ai"... Please be "ai"...

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 23 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

I'm going to be bold. The internal combustion engine car.

There will be a tipping point where nobody wants to maintain the highly intricate manufacturing for them, and they will stop very quickly. Electric motors are the future and the transition is accelerating. We're currently around 20% of new sales and I expect after 60-70% ICEs will just disappear from sale.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 2 hours ago

I think the EU has plans to stop the sale of ICEs in 10 years, so... that could start a snowball effect.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

we still see a lot of 20-40yr old cars around, many daily driven. if we suddenly stop making ice cars today, its still taking a while for them to truly go away in practical terms.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I don't think that's bold.
It's already at 25% last month and 50+% in China.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 5 points 10 hours ago

It's only the timescale I'm unsure about.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 19 points 11 hours ago

I feel like DVDs/Blurays already disappeared 10 years ago and are now making a comeback. Same for CDs. Streaming services don't let you own anything, and if they pull something down, you're SOL. Self hosting Plex and ripping my own disks has given me a level of freedom not possible with netflix et. al. Especially since DVDs are considered garbage to most people now, you can set up your own streaming service for you and your friends and family for cheap. No piracy necessary.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Shit. I've been waiting for IPv6 for 20 years.

[–] zenforyen@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

Maybe eventually my kids will have IPv6 as the common sense default and will marvel at the ingenuity of their ancestors to keep using way too few addresses for way too many devices

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Hopefully fax machines, but these things seem incapable of dying.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago

i havent seen one in years

[–] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 10 points 14 hours ago

Unless you're trying to use one. Then they're always broken.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Bluerays will still exist because of japanese laws. How am I supposed to get my anime without dimming if I don't pirate bluerays?

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

anime without dimming

So that's the secret! When I first noticed this happening I thought I was a little bit crazy lol.

[–] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

YES, In the USA (United Slaves of America.)

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 56 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The way shit is headed, probably vaccines.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 36 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] grranibal@lemmy.zip 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I believe it’s propagating outside of the US

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 11 hours ago

No, we have a vaccine for that.

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

my answer varies quite a bit depending on whether we mean tech that will be relegated to specific niche use cases and markets, tech that will no longer be produced at all, or tech that can't be found any more, even used.

the first category could include a lot of things, like most of the other suggestions that have already been suggested here, but i don't think there's any chance of blu-ray discs or desktop computers being totally gone in that time frame. the second category will probably include small gasoline powered cars, at least in some countries. and the third category will probably include most standard incandescent or CFL light bulbs, but they might still exist in some niche applications.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 30 minutes ago

I imagine incandescent will remain if for no other reason than lava lamps. They've got just enough fans and the incandescent is perfect for them. If their manufacture goes away some niche uses company will probably pick them up.

Period focused lighting may also use them. And, now I'm remembering the monthly or so task of having to replace light bulbs back when I was a kid. It feels like a ridiculous old timey thing these days, like milkmen.

[–] POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think we will be losing optical disks ever.

If burned properly they hold storage for a very long time without data loss. IIRC Facebook burns optical disks for old photographs and instead of having a hard drive array or tape library they had a RAID based optical disk system.

Optical disks are great, but not for the daily user since most media content is online and most storage is judged on being rewritable.

[–] juliebean@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 hours ago

i completely agree, though i hope that eventually we can settle on something like Cerabyte for long term archival storage.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 19 hours ago (4 children)
[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

We call it AI now but machine learning algorithms have been around for 70 years now and basically run the world

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[–] koper@feddit.nl 47 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Not disappear entirely, but most households won't own desktop computers or HDDs.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 17 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

As a homelabber, this makes me sad. Perhaps enshittification will push people back into home/local computing.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 1 hour ago

I would hope, but on the whole you'd almost think they deliberately purged home computing from the mainstream consciousness, with how tragically ignorant the average person is about anything that isn't a little poke-driven rectangle that screams at you all day.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

homelabbing isnt even my gripe with it. its not ever interacting with computers on your own terms, only on theirs. smartphones are a black box.

i see ads, artificial annoyances, and human right violations by technology increasing in lockstep with the reduction of our collective control over computing.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 2 hours ago

I agree. I'm also very sad when I see small kids watching YouTube videos on tablets; that's pretty much all they do.

Where's the fun of tinkering? Trying to build things? Trying fixing problems, such as formatting?

Kids don't even have the concept of files and folders. We're raising a generation of digital slaves.

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

Most people connected to the Internet today have never owned a desktop computer nor an HDD. A crazy amount of people have been introduced to computing with smartphones.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 6 points 16 hours ago

Commercial TV

[–] narr1@lemmy.ml 30 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Social security and pensions I think.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know of any millennial or younger who assumes there will be a safety net for them at the end of the road. We just don't trust those in charge to keep it. I'll fight for it, I paid into it and I want others to have it, but I can't bank on it either

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There's simply no way to keep pensions. It's like a big pyramid scheme where new people are putting the money and old people are enjoying them; the problem is that old people are growing and they've been living longer, and young people are less and less.

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 hour ago

The problem is the owners don't pay their fair share, nothing else.

Productivity has risen to cover everything.

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