The More You Know About Technology, The More You Hate It! DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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wyterabitt
The -you don't need it- argument is always silly. If I came in and took everything out of your life you don't need, you wouldnt allow that or live that kind of life for more than a day without not being able to cope.
My coffee doesn't need WiFi, but a timer isn't going to help me have it ready if my schedule means I never know when I will be back. I don't need to track what I buy and use as it is used, but I can concentrate on anything else if I can have it automatically order what I need when it is close to being out. The level of conspiracy and paranoia to be worried about a coffee pot with WiFi is what is unhealthy, completely unrelated to the coffee pot having WiFi.
As for all the data collection, I will make basic attempts to minimise it. But one day I will be rotting in the ground, and it's safe to say I won't be any happier that I -won- against all the meanies collecting meaningless information if I happened to have stopped more than the average person. It's just an obsession with thinking we are special, just actually live your life don't waste it preoccupied on something so utterly trivial in the grand scheme of existence.
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The -you don't need it- argument is always silly. If I came in and took everything out of your life you don't need, you wouldnt allow that or live that kind of life for more than a day without not being able to cope.
My coffee doesn't need WiFi, but a timer isn't going to help me have it ready if my schedule means I never know when I will be back. I don't need to track what I buy and use as it is used, but I can concentrate on anything else if I can have it automatically order what I need when it is close to being out. The level of conspiracy and paranoia to be worried about a coffee pot with WiFi is what is unhealthy, completely unrelated to the coffee pot having WiFi.
As for all the data collection, I will make basic attempts to minimise it. But one day I will be rotting in the ground, and it's safe to say I won't be any happier that I -won- against all the meanies collecting meaningless information if I happened to have stopped more than the average person. It's just an obsession with thinking we are special, just actually live your life don't waste it preoccupied on something so utterly trivial in the grand scheme of existence.
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Alex
Okay, I'm with you for a lot of the points.
But cursive? Really? Cursive is the most pointless thing to ever come out of school, my school even tried to teach us cursive italics for some unknown reason... Maybe they thought it looked smarter or some crap like that.
Also books being more immersive than videos? Games being more enjoyable than video games? That's so subjective and there's no way you can actually say those things as a fact. I'm very visual, so movies for me are a medium I enjoy even more than books (which is already a lot!), but hey that's just me! I can't be a dirt rally driver, a fighter pilot, or a space explorer, but I can in a video game. Who the hell are you to tell people to stop doing what they enjoy?
I'm with you that everything should be open and private, and that the majority of smartphone use is entirely pointless. But I feel you're going way too far into what would be considered 'boomer yelling at clouds' territory and telling people that they shouldn't enjoy something because it's different from how you spend your time.
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Okay, I'm with you for a lot of the points.
But cursive? Really? Cursive is the most pointless thing to ever come out of school, my school even tried to teach us cursive italics for some unknown reason... Maybe they thought it looked smarter or some crap like that.
Also books being more immersive than videos? Games being more enjoyable than video games? That's so subjective and there's no way you can actually say those things as a fact. I'm very visual, so movies for me are a medium I enjoy even more than books (which is already a lot!), but hey that's just me! I can't be a dirt rally driver, a fighter pilot, or a space explorer, but I can in a video game. Who the hell are you to tell people to stop doing what they enjoy?
I'm with you that everything should be open and private, and that the majority of smartphone use is entirely pointless. But I feel you're going way too far into what would be considered 'boomer yelling at clouds' territory and telling people that they shouldn't enjoy something because it's different from how you spend your time.
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TheTurnipKing
6:06 This comes back to what a computer actually is. in Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams observed that they are modelling devices, which you can see clearly if you go back to one of the basics, the text editor. It's basically your computer -being a typewriter-. But the thing about these devices being models of physical devices, is you can actually add features that would be difficult or impossible as a physical device. You can backspace, you can crawl through the document editing, you can store the document digitally. And then thirty years later you have something which is kind of an all purpose swiss army knife widget.
And then, before you know if you're hosting a TED talk on the same device as you wrote the speech on.
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6:06 This comes back to what a computer actually is. in Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams observed that they are modelling devices, which you can see clearly if you go back to one of the basics, the text editor. It's basically your computer -being a typewriter-. But the thing about these devices being models of physical devices, is you can actually add features that would be difficult or impossible as a physical device. You can backspace, you can crawl through the document editing, you can store the document digitally. And then thirty years later you have something which is kind of an all purpose swiss army knife widget.
And then, before you know if you're hosting a TED talk on the same device as you wrote the speech on.
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brunoais
3:35 I don't use those -smart- devices because they don't make my life better. I prefer mechanical devices for some things and not having at all for most things.
Some things I like some technology, such as a digital timer in my microwave but I don't want an internet-enabled microwave that has firmware that needs updating and whatnot.
Same applies to my fridge. Some tech can be good such as an alarm that calls in case the fridge is left open (I use a rubber band to pull it close) but that's about that much.
Tech can be good but, for nowadays, whatever is -smart-, -means more work than it's worth-.
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3:35 I don't use those -smart- devices because they don't make my life better. I prefer mechanical devices for some things and not having at all for most things.
Some things I like some technology, such as a digital timer in my microwave but I don't want an internet-enabled microwave that has firmware that needs updating and whatnot.
Same applies to my fridge. Some tech can be good such as an alarm that calls in case the fridge is left open (I use a rubber band to pull it close) but that's about that much.
Tech can be good but, for nowadays, whatever is -smart-, -means more work than it's worth-.
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Dale
4:54 I hear ya. IF I'm able to one day retire, and IF they even make such a thing by then, I'll just get a regular flip phone, but they probably won't have such a thing in the near future. It's getting harder and harder to find those, and I don't even know how much longer Jitterbug will offer something like that. I may have to get a Linux smartphone from PinePhone or Librem. In retirement, the only thing I'll really need a smartphone for, mainly, is music playing in the car, and really, I wish someone would make an affordable MP3 player (but it MUST play FLAC files!) that could take a 1TB microSD card in it!
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4:54 I hear ya. IF I'm able to one day retire, and IF they even make such a thing by then, I'll just get a regular flip phone, but they probably won't have such a thing in the near future. It's getting harder and harder to find those, and I don't even know how much longer Jitterbug will offer something like that. I may have to get a Linux smartphone from PinePhone or Librem. In retirement, the only thing I'll really need a smartphone for, mainly, is music playing in the car, and really, I wish someone would make an affordable MP3 player (but it MUST play FLAC files!) that could take a 1TB microSD card in it!
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Nick
I agree with the title and some parts of of the movie. But I can't agree about smartphone and computer. This is just usefull. You seems to be like cave man in this. If you don't like spying just make root, remove bloatware, block connection, turn off what you want. I dont like smart home solutions, but I don't mind automatic solutions (without embeded systems and stuff like cortana, siri etc). People in search of comfort sold their privacy and probably it's too late to stop it.
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I agree with the title and some parts of of the movie. But I can't agree about smartphone and computer. This is just usefull. You seems to be like cave man in this. If you don't like spying just make root, remove bloatware, block connection, turn off what you want. I dont like smart home solutions, but I don't mind automatic solutions (without embeded systems and stuff like cortana, siri etc). People in search of comfort sold their privacy and probably it's too late to stop it.
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luke
Every major problem will be solved after enough people have spend enough time thinking about it. So yes you should have your coffee machine connected to wifi, everything should be connected to wifi. If you can save 30 seconds in 20 different ways in your morning routine, you will have more time to focus on more important things. The time savings add up over time and the cure for cancer will come faster if enough people save enough time.
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Every major problem will be solved after enough people have spend enough time thinking about it. So yes you should have your coffee machine connected to wifi, everything should be connected to wifi. If you can save 30 seconds in 20 different ways in your morning routine, you will have more time to focus on more important things. The time savings add up over time and the cure for cancer will come faster if enough people save enough time.
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Alex
I definitely understand this. I'm actually looking into getting a dumb phone that will use the same sim card that my galaxy uses so that way, when the weekend rolls around, i can downgrade to a late 90's/ early 00's level of technological intrusion in my life. I'm a history major at uni and a machinist by trade. I'm disgusted by our dependence on technology and our need to fill empty air space with just.... noise
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I definitely understand this. I'm actually looking into getting a dumb phone that will use the same sim card that my galaxy uses so that way, when the weekend rolls around, i can downgrade to a late 90's/ early 00's level of technological intrusion in my life. I'm a history major at uni and a machinist by trade. I'm disgusted by our dependence on technology and our need to fill empty air space with just.... noise
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James
I remember a few years back that a middle aged man made a jerk-off vid and sent the vid instead to his mistress he sent it to his high school coaching team. He didn't realize that he accidentally did so until someone told him. Dudes life destroyed due to him being a dumb ass and speed of technology. The days of a camcorder, and VHS tape would've slowed down this process completely.
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I remember a few years back that a middle aged man made a jerk-off vid and sent the vid instead to his mistress he sent it to his high school coaching team. He didn't realize that he accidentally did so until someone told him. Dudes life destroyed due to him being a dumb ass and speed of technology. The days of a camcorder, and VHS tape would've slowed down this process completely.
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Dale
Not to totally nerd out and quote Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but I think the profound statement by the Federation president in that movie sums up the nature of all these -smart- devices and other invasive technology: -Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we -can- do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we -must- do that thing.-
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Not to totally nerd out and quote Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but I think the profound statement by the Federation president in that movie sums up the nature of all these -smart- devices and other invasive technology: -Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we -can- do a thing, it does not necessarily follow that we -must- do that thing.-
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