After my Father retired I have slowly watched him turn from being a politically distant, rational, and moderate man to becoming a intensely activate, hateful, and emotional man.
I know its cause is the steady diet of Fox News and YouTube autoplay, as that is all I see he watches. His YouTube feed on the Roku is filled with AI generated bullshit, and he just passively absorbs it all.
I want to prevent this. I know this is happening to thousands at least. So I am starting the 'Boomer Box' project. A box of pleasant nostalgia to keep the Boomer stimulated and entertained without warping their identity.
The goals are as follows:
1. A large catalog of high-quality nostalgic shows and movies
2. Access to web broadcasts of 'decent' news stations
3. Be easily reproducible for non-techy sons and daughters. Easily deployable on low-spec low-storage hardware (Think shitty laptop with an HDMI port)
Right now this is just an idea, but I will continue to update this post and my replies as I work on actualizing it.
I know its cause is the steady diet of Fox News and YouTube autoplay, as that is all I see he watches. His YouTube feed on the Roku is filled with AI generated bullshit, and he just passively absorbs it all.
I want to prevent this. I know this is happening to thousands at least. So I am starting the 'Boomer Box' project. A box of pleasant nostalgia to keep the Boomer stimulated and entertained without warping their identity.
The goals are as follows:
1. A large catalog of high-quality nostalgic shows and movies
2. Access to web broadcasts of 'decent' news stations
3. Be easily reproducible for non-techy sons and daughters. Easily deployable on low-spec low-storage hardware (Think shitty laptop with an HDMI port)
Right now this is just an idea, but I will continue to update this post and my replies as I work on actualizing it.