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Offline james_s

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #125 on: December 18, 2022, 03:06:08 am »
Depending on where you are, the post code may identify a single  house. But it's like most data: on its own it's not so hot, but combine it with other data and the you might as well drop your pants and bend over.

That'd have to be somewhere seriously rural I'd think. My postal code has over 22,000 residents.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #126 on: December 18, 2022, 03:49:29 am »
Comment to 'magic', thanks for your recent posts, I've similar thoughts, about state of smart phones:

    The radio station offers an APP, but I just (try) connecting for 'podcast' listening.  But, HECK, compared to old-school radio...where you would just flip the radio on, maybe adjust the portable's antenna sometimes...that was it!
But these days, on my (Android, Alcatel), using direct, without downloading 'APP', it's very crappy performing, and just choking on ADs.
Sometimes, show (finally) gets on-air, for less than 90 seconds...then whoops...back to the whole series of ADs, (..."I'm Doctor Sanjay...Gru...."..) with more health tips advertisements...etc etc.
   Technically, of course it's frustrating, with all the drop-outs and flat out signal and web site loss...forcing  manual reload.  But I suppose it's as a consumer that I notice...plus you cannot get / buy a traditional radio, at least not like before, in local drugstore.
 
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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #127 on: December 18, 2022, 03:51:43 am »
Depending on where you are, the post code may identify a single  house. But it's like most data: on its own it's not so hot, but combine it with other data and the you might as well drop your pants and bend over.

That'd have to be somewhere seriously rural I'd think. My postal code has over 22,000 residents.

The five-digit  US ZIP code may include 22,000 residents, but the full nine-digit ZIP code is much more local (although not necessarily one mail drop).
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #128 on: December 18, 2022, 04:19:56 am »
Depending on where you are, the post code may identify a single  house. But it's like most data: on its own it's not so hot, but combine it with other data and the you might as well drop your pants and bend over.

That'd have to be somewhere seriously rural I'd think. My postal code has over 22,000 residents.

That's like half my city.   Pretty sure it's typically only a few houses or we'd literally have like 2 postal codes for the whole city lol.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #129 on: December 18, 2022, 04:25:45 am »
That's like half my city.   Pretty sure it's typically only a few houses or we'd literally have like 2 postal codes for the whole city lol.

Small cities do typically have only one or two postal codes. Now they have a 4 digit extension but most people still just use the original 5 digit codes.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #130 on: December 20, 2022, 05:53:18 pm »
Depending on where you are, the post code may identify a single  house. But it's like most data: on its own it's not so hot, but combine it with other data and the you might as well drop your pants and bend over.

That'd have to be somewhere seriously rural I'd think. My postal code has over 22,000 residents.
Just for kicks, look at how UK postcodes work: the first half identifies a broader area, but the second half identifies a small group of addresses (about 15) within it. When you order pizza delivery in the UK, they simply ask for your postcode and house number, because that is enough to positively identify your home!

The ZIP+4 extension in USA is similar: the +4 extension identifies a much smaller area within the 5-digit ZIP code.

(Amusingly, I won my pub quiz team a point literally last night by knowing that the “I” in ZIP code stands for “improvement”. :P)
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #131 on: December 20, 2022, 07:43:25 pm »
The same applies for the Dutch postal codes. Four digits, two letters and your house number does it for most of the homes.

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #132 on: December 21, 2022, 01:49:51 am »
I hate how on android every single god damn application is allowed to make a ping noise and notify you of something. And able to do it multiple times per day for as long as it fudging well wants to!  |O

I hate how people rant and rage and destroy phones because they don't go into the settings and turn notifications off.

Some people just shouldn't be allowed to use technology, I guess.
 
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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #133 on: December 21, 2022, 01:55:31 am »
I hate how on android every single god damn application is allowed to make a ping noise and notify you of something. And able to do it multiple times per day for as long as it fudging well wants to!  |O

I hate how people rant and rage and destroy phones because they don't go into the settings and turn notifications off.

Some people just shouldn't be allowed to use technology, I guess.

Very few apps are allowed to notify me and the ones that do, each make different sounds.

I even have different sounds for different contacts.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #134 on: December 21, 2022, 02:00:07 am »

This is why I have a cassette player in my car and at home peoples because there would be a god damn riot if you were to take away my cassettes and my CRT television and my vintage box fan that doesn't require a god damn app just to turn it on!

I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.   
 
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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #135 on: December 21, 2022, 03:10:37 am »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

Most of them only did that when they weren't getting a valid signal, I did have a CGA monitor on my first PC that made an awful whine though, it comes from the horizontal deflection. Once you are around 35 years old it is irrelevant because you can't hear it anymore.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #136 on: December 21, 2022, 06:24:01 am »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

This has been replaced by buck / boost converters with to low frequencies or other resonances.  :-DD

Adjust the brightness on a FNIRSI 1013D and you get a beeping sound because the PWM carrier frequency is ~833Hz.
My >10 old Dell 24 inch monitor also makes a humming sound due to this.

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #137 on: December 21, 2022, 06:27:31 am »
I hate how people rant and rage and destroy phones because they don't go into the settings and turn notifications off.

It looks like there is a new whiner in town. Check out some of bigfoot22 his posts.

He even thinks airplanes should never have been made.  :palm:

P.S. I know I can whine too  >:D

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #138 on: December 21, 2022, 07:31:46 am »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

Most of them only did that when they weren't getting a valid signal, I did have a CGA monitor on my first PC that made an awful whine though, it comes from the horizontal deflection. Once you are around 35 years old it is irrelevant because you can't hear it anymore.

Most CRTs bothered me.  It was the same frequency as the ringing in my ears and I still 'hear' that despite being over 35.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #139 on: December 21, 2022, 07:43:18 am »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

This has been replaced by buck / boost converters with to low frequencies or other resonances.  :-DD

Adjust the brightness on a FNIRSI 1013D and you get a beeping sound because the PWM carrier frequency is ~833Hz.
My >10 old Dell 24 inch monitor also makes a humming sound due to this.

I've had a few converters that made noise.  The worst was a boost module from one of those maker shops.  When I exceeded its limits, it would squeel.  Still not as annoying as CRT though.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #140 on: December 21, 2022, 08:39:49 am »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

Most of them only did that when they weren't getting a valid signal, I did have a CGA monitor on my first PC that made an awful whine though, it comes from the horizontal deflection. Once you are around 35 years old it is irrelevant because you can't hear it anymore.
Huh? I don’t think I ever encountered a CRT that only did it without a good signal. I remember it, especially on TV sets (much less so on computer displays) regardless of input signal.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #141 on: December 21, 2022, 03:03:22 pm »
Let's rant about Android. ;D Recently we had our nationwide alert day for testing sirens and other ways of alerting the public. This time the test included cell broadcast which is an old standard in the mobile network specs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast), and also used in some countries for years. Simply put, it's a text message to all phones sent by the base station. If you have an Android phone you need to check several settings hidden below several layers of menus to make sure that your phone will accept cell broadcast messages - not every phone has sensible default settings (fail #1). Now something bad happens and you receive a public alert via cell broadcast. Your phone is supposed to play a loud alarm sound to get your attention and to show you the alert. In reality some phones stay silent for whatever reason (fail #2). In case your phone plays the loud sound it's quite likely that you'll confirm the alarm sound to shut it off - something most users are trained to do by apps. Oops, after confirming the alarm sound the alert message is gone too (fail #3). Where can I retrieve the alert to read it? Again, down the rabbit hole through several layers of menus in the settings app you'll find a history of alert messages. Very intuitive, especially if you're in a hurry! Fail #4.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #142 on: December 21, 2022, 03:32:59 pm »
Although to be fair I am going through all of the symptoms of early onset parkinsons. But while that is an explanation for my behavior it is not an excuse for it.

Thanks for the explanation and apology.

Parkinson, that for sure is a bitch, and I sympathize with you.

I know someone with Parkinson's but he is in his seventies and has a not so aggressive form of it, but still shit, like any other chronic disease. I myself suffer from Fibromyalgia which also sucks.

Hang in there and try to keep up the good spirit.

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #143 on: December 21, 2022, 04:21:18 pm »

Although to be fair I am going through all of the symptoms of early onset parkinsons. But while that is an explanation for my behavior it is not an excuse for it. I actually am very upset that I've smashed phones in the past and feel a great loss whenever it happens.
[...]

A test for Parkinsons is up next on the schedule.
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But a small trace of gluten on a food that I've eaten can make me have mood swings a roughly week after ingesting it.

Thanks for sharing and I'm sorry to hear that.  I bet that long response time made it difficult to determine gluten was a problem.  I'd count that as a win against a tough problem.

If your upcomming testing involves electronics, I think people here would be interested to hear about it.  I will be.

This has been implied already but I'll reitterate, you can turn off notifications or atleast change their sounds.  I recently dialed mine back and set up more custom sounds and I wish I did it sooner.  It's much less annoying now.

 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #144 on: December 21, 2022, 06:24:34 pm »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

Most of them only did that when they weren't getting a valid signal, I did have a CGA monitor on my first PC that made an awful whine though, it comes from the horizontal deflection. Once you are around 35 years old it is irrelevant because you can't hear it anymore.
Huh? I don’t think I ever encountered a CRT that only did it without a good signal. I remember it, especially on TV sets (much less so on computer displays) regardless of input signal.

We had a lot of composite video monitors in my school, I could walk into a room and always tell when one hadn't been shut off. When they have a signal the frequency seems to shift a bit so it's less audible. I have quite a few CRT monitors around here so next time I pull one out I'll do some testing with the audio spectrum app on my phone.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #145 on: December 22, 2022, 05:46:26 am »
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« Reply #146 on: December 22, 2022, 06:29:41 am »
I think he's saying something about cysts, death and cover.

Are you trying to sell insurance?

translate and find out.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #148 on: December 29, 2022, 05:24:44 am »
I hated CRT, so glad I don't encounter them anymore.  They made a high pitch sound I could here from the other side of the house.

Most of them only did that when they weren't getting a valid signal, I did have a CGA monitor on my first PC that made an awful whine though, it comes from the horizontal deflection. Once you are around 35 years old it is irrelevant because you can't hear it anymore.

Most CRTs bothered me.  It was the same frequency as the ringing in my ears and I still 'hear' that despite being over 35.

I had a CRT that would randomly start making a high pitched sound too, I'd tap the side and it would stop for a bit lol.   I would also hear 60hz in it if the dimmer switch in the dining room was dimmed.

Sometimes it's easy to feel nostalgic about certain tech, but CRTs are actually one thing I don't really miss at all.  I do have a few I keep in storage for old time sake but I would not even want to use them unless I decide to build a retro PC setup for fun or something.   CRT TVs are also good if you want to break out the NES and play duck hunt.
 

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Re: I despise the modern phones and internet
« Reply #149 on: December 29, 2022, 08:32:08 am »
like drinking beer, you think its good.. but its not.

Says who?

I enjoy drinking beer in moderation, it tastes good, it's an enjoyable social activity, there are certainly worse things I could be doing with my time.

Just like with smartphones, moderation is key.
 
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