AssertionError("Joe Groff")Mar 30, 2025

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

Show threadJames Savage
@joe do kids these days understand channel tuning? That’s like installing Netflix, right?
Mar 30, 2025 at 3:28amWeb
Show threadsome kind of orange shapeMar 30, 2025
@axiixc @joe YouTube has channels. You "subscribe" to them, similar to how you subscribe to creators.
Show threadsome kind of orange shapeMar 30, 2025
@axiixc @joe So I guess that when they definitely get around to adapting Neuromancer to the screen any day now, the sky will display those creepy quasi-algorithmic videos of Dora the Explorer giving birth or whatever...
Show threadRichard GaywoodMar 31, 2025
@clayote @axiixc @joe If you weren’t aware, Apple TV is actively working on a Neuromancer series right now. The cast has been announced & I think filming has started.
Show threadNudeln Al Dente 🐘Mar 30, 2025
@axiixc @joe I wonder when we as a species will get over these "do kids these days understand <insert archaic concept that is utterly irrelevant to their lives>?" questions. Most adults younger than me don't understand channel tuning. Tbh I'm not sure I understand how the modern auto-tuning tech works beyond pressing the button that triggers it. Why would I? The tech has moved on.
Show threadOzzelot Mar 30, 2025
@axiixc @joe Installing Netflix? It just exists on the TV, donnit?
Show threadTobyBartelsMar 30, 2025

@axiixc @joe

You can still tune a car radio. I'm not sure to what extent people use that these days, as opposed to connecting to their phone with Bluetooth, or ignoring the car speakers and each person using their own earbuds. But it's there, and I figure that most people old enough to sit in the front seat will have fiddled with it at some point.