Luddite or Technophile (NTTAWWT)

[Ligma]

You are a polly addict… a fiend. No offence

I love TikTok but you are so easy to bait lol

I don’t even know what that means

 

[DuckYeah]

I love TikTok but you are so easy to bait lol

I don’t even know what that means

You are young and probably have your phone open longer than I am awake.. You talk “easy to bait” how many tick-tock videos you watched?

 

[Ligma]

You are young and probably have your phone open longer than I am awake.. You talk “easy to bait” how many tick-tock videos you watched?

No lmao.

You are easy to bait lol that’s why you replied to my TikTok comment cause I saw your dislike for it.

 

[DuckYeah]

No lmao.

You are easy to bait lol that’s why you replied to my TikTok comment cause I saw your dislike for it.

Whateverrrrr if its not tick tock it’d be instagrams, if its not gram its facebook if its not facebook its twitter if its not that its only fans

 

[Ligma]

Whateverrrrr if its not tick tock it’d be instagrams, if its not gram its facebook if its not facebook its twitter if its not that its only fans

 

[Lomas]

I have an app for a fire pit I was given, and have had fun turning the fans up to scorch the kids' marsh mellows. Prefer my usual fire pits though. Don't mind an app for my bbq probe, and using the phone to control tvs comes in handy when the actual remotes are lost.

 

[Samsquanch]

Technophile

And I’m addicted to onlyfans

FIFY

 

[blackshadow]

Whateverrrrr if its not tick tock it’d be instagrams, if its not gram its facebook if its not facebook its twitter if its not that its only fans

 

[blackshadow]

Technofile here.

Built a gaming PC about a year ago and turned my old PC and other assorted tech I’d collected over time into a sweet unraid home server.

 

[Ligma]

FIFY

NTTAWWT

 

[DuckYeah]

Technofile here.

Built a gaming PC about a year ago and turned my old PC and other assorted tech I’d collected over time into a sweet unraid home server.

Nerd.

 

[Samsquanch]

Technofile here.

Built a gaming PC about a year ago and turned my old PC and other assorted tech I’d collected over time into a sweet unraid home server.

Needs a "How To" thread!

 

[blackshadow]

Needs a "How To" thread!

The lazy ****ers can look up YouTube.

 

[blackshadow]

Are you a nerd if you are into cable management?

 

[DuckYeah]

The lazy *ers can look up YouTube.

Rebuild a wet end pump without YouTube..

 

[Samsquanch]

Rebuild a wet end pump without YouTube..

Euphamism?

Or for real?

 

[Samsquanch]

Are you a nerd if you are into cable management?

I used to work at a place where there were 100s (or more) total nerds, and amongst them some who did spectacular cable routing with impeccable curves, parallelism and utter perfection in symmetry. Others had a working theory that chaos was a better method as cross-talk and induction were almost certainly eliminated. Anyway, I was working on level 5 of the building in William St, and the LAN guys were on level 6. They had bandwidth coming out of their clackers, but the switches on the other floors were overloaded so our network performance was shit. I had to work over a weekend to run the EoY batch which was to submit a job every 30 minutes or so, then sit around until each job completed then run the next. To keep myself occupied I climbed up the cable shaft into the LAN room on level 6, found a long cable and ran it down the duct, through the ceiling and dropped it into my office. Plugged it in and VOILA! Connectivity to the Level 6 switch. They took months to discover it, and when they did they just left it anyway. Mostly I got on with the LAN guys.

 

[Kangaroos techno]

I'm only a technophile when it comes to visual and audio. I struggle to watch anything that isn't 4k or 1080. i put on old 720 stuff and almost spit on my TV.

Music too. Managed to snap up the Sony WH-1000XM5B Noise Cancelling headphones last week from jbhifi when they ****ed up and had them listed for $350 for a couple of hours instead of the XM4's. They had 15% off jbhifi gift cards too so managed to get them under $300. Already signed up to Tidal as a yugoslavian ($1.48 a month) so my ears get to feast on studio quality music. Nothing like listening to Akon's audio tuned voice as if you're in the studio with him. Added bonus is the headphones are strong enough to cancel out my mrs.

Not a robovac person but I'm a big fan of the dyson cordless stick vacuums.

Not sure if it counts as tech but I'm a sucker for new cordless tools and kreg products.

 

[amaz199]

It is a bit of tricky one.

I am a technophile to an extent. I think we need technology but we've gone too far in some aspects bordering on solutionism addiction. For example, a fridge just needs to keep things cold. It doesn't need Wi-Fi, you don't need a screen to see what's inside because you literally have a handle and will open it anyway.

Cars with electronics everywhere also introduce the problem of maintenance. Since when, does a car need so many electronic gizmos to the point it takes thousands of dollars to fix a certain module or sensor because it is impossible to reach without disassembling half the car?

Technology is supposed to evolve in ways we can make our lives/productivity more efficient but I feel that has gone out the window with how it is being taken advantage of for all the wrong-greedy reasons. Planned obsolescence, badly made circuitry, cheap capacitors, thin gauge wiring, badly designed safety circuitry, cheap metals, plastics etc.

It's not all doom and gloom though! A really good example of making things so much better is travelling. We still travelled by water when planes didn't have enough range to make it to other continents. Sailing into the ocean is still extremely dangerous and continues to be something we shouldn't be messing with. Technology has made things MUCH easier by introducing jet travel and evolving that method of travel for over 60 years.

However, the one thing we need to be full blown tech crazy about is our broadband. It is still shit and only now are densely populated areas slowly getting FTTP speeds neighbouring Asian countries have been getting for over a decade. Our mobile network is bloody awesome but that is data capped. Can't download COD on mobile data. I will say though I wouldn't be able to share this post if it weren't for broadband getting somewhat decent.

Computers in general have made significant strides but seem to be slowing down in terms of worthwhile performance gains or new features that have significant weight. The smartphone market hasn't made much significant strides other than camera quality. Processors still perform largely the same with the typical specs they come with and there isn't really any reason to upgrade other than when updates are pushed on your 3 year old battler that slow it down just a tad bit more to get you annoyed.

My biggest gripe with technology is the security and dangers of data breaches. If a company is not taking cybersecurity very seriously and limits what employees can and cannot do, we are better off switching the whole thing off and going dark age again. Security and encryption have come a long way but they are still not bullet-proof. They can be cracked and humans can be tricked into thinking the guy on the other side is legit.

There are many things to consider when thinking about the impact of technology. I think it has helped tremendously in some aspects but zombified or worsened a lot of the things we would've cherished if we didn't allow it to take over so swiftly. The main focus being, the future of our kids.

 

[Themanbun]

I used to work at a place where there were 100s (or more) total nerds, and amongst them some who did spectacular cable routing with impeccable curves, parallelism and utter perfection in symmetry. Others had a working theory that chaos was a better method as cross-talk and induction were almost certainly eliminated. Anyway, I was working on level 5 of the building in William St, and the LAN guys were on level 6. They had bandwidth coming out of their clackers, but the switches on the other floors were overloaded so our network performance was s**t. I had to work over a weekend to run the EoY batch which was to submit a job every 30 minutes or so, then sit around until each job completed then run the next. To keep myself occupied I climbed up the cable shaft into the LAN room on level 6, found a long cable and ran it down the duct, through the ceiling and dropped it into my office. Plugged it in and VOILA! Connectivity to the Level 6 switch. They took months to discover it, and when they did they just left it anyway. Mostly I got on with the LAN guys.

I didn't know which one I was and then I read this, didn't understand that shit, and agreed with myself that I'm a Luddite.

 

[Samsquanch]

My biggest gripe with technology is the security and dangers of data breaches. If a company is not taking cybersecurity very seriously and limits what employees can and cannot do

The second last place I worked at ran cyber security courses for all staff (generic stuff but typical corporate training material I guess) and about a month later, they set up a test by issuing a classic "phishing" email with links and a dodgy reply address. I anticipate about 80% of staff would have picked it as a phishing email at least. The intent was to find out how many people would report it to the service desk, and also, if anybody would click the links or reply.

But there was some issue and my boss gets a call to run it as a major incident (they had to get the data collected back to Hong Kong to the parent company). Instead of telling the person who created the email to GAGF my boss kissed up and got me to run the incident as if it was a major incident.

Turns out the email had a typo in the URL and the clicks weren't getting counted. I got somebody to set up a redirect and to test it, I clicked the link, which successfully took me to a web page that told me that my details had been collected and I would be contacted by HR in due course.

And I was.

HR made me do another friggin' cyber security awareness course - even though I told them that I clicked the link to prove that we'd fixed the dick-head's mistake in the email he'd sent to 3,000 people.

And to make matters worse, when it came to annual review, I was marked down even though my boss had been completely aware of the circumstances - he was on the call when we agreed that the test had to be done to prove the fix.

Anyway, that isn't why I resigned - actually, it was a contributing factor. Two bit jumped up shitful company that it was.

And it's over a year ago and I have not missed the place one bit.

 

[Hojuman]

Still write letters occasionally

 

[Nate7]

Without creating a separate thread, I'm wondering if anyone still has or uses a Melway/Sydway/UBD?

Yeah I know most cars are gps equipped and the occupants will likely have a smart phone, but when all that fails (extremely unlikely at once), can you navigate without modern tech and rely solely on maps/brain?

 

[Samsquanch]

Without creating a separate thread, I'm wondering if anyone still has or uses a Melway/Sydway/UBD?

Yeah I know most cars are gps equipped and the occupants will likely have a smart phone, but when all that fails (extremely unlikely at once), can you navigate without modern tech and rely solely on maps/brain?

I rely on GPS. I bought one when they first came out as I am useless at navigating. My wife thinks she is good but I don't believe her.

I am not one who relied on the Gregory's to get around.

 

[Mav]

Have a love hate relationship with Tech. I'm bloody awesome at snake, have an electric tooth brush and can use Turbo Defrost on the microwave. But I've tried those cigarette rolling machines and they don't give the authentic cone shape I like so I still manually roll my joints.