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| Sherlock Holmes:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 14, 2022, 10:35:32 am --- --- Quote from: eti on December 14, 2022, 10:13:38 am ---I’ve said this many times over the years and I mean it. I’d go back to 1998-2003 era phones and BASIC internet in a heartbeat. … --- End quote --- For those who want a TL;DR: “I’m a whiny curmudgeon who doesn’t accept that other people have different priorities than me, so I’ve started yet another rant thread even after being officially warned to stop doing so.” --- End quote --- As soon as you publicly label someone like that, someone you disagree with, then rational discourse ends. If you disagree with something the disagree without making personal insults and insinuations. Is the post controversial to you? well good, we need controversy, all this tunnel vision, herd mentality these days is destroying us, I don't agree with everything he said, but there is a great deal of truth to much of what he said. |
| Sherlock Holmes:
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 14, 2022, 10:47:27 am ---Here's the fun thing eti: you don't have to use one of these phones. You don't have to spend £1,200 on a phone. Nobody is compelling you to do so. If you want the bare minimum phone, a £20 or so phone can be acquired from most good online websites, which will ONLY do phone calls and texts. Other people clearly enjoy and appreciate these devices, so why not let them live their lives? It would be very authoritarian - something you have rallied against - to tell people what they can do with their devices, when that behaviour really hurts no one. --- End quote --- Replace "modern phone" with assault rifle, and you might notice something about your post. |
| pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 14, 2022, 11:19:35 am ---It's funny, I have the exact opposite opinion. A great deal of people on this forum, who shall remain unnamed, have strong views reminiscent of the Luddites. If we were listening to these people we'd still be using horses to pull carts. It's really odd to me that engineers would be so critical of the very field they are often involved in, you don't hear too many medical doctors arguing for leeches and trepanning still. --- End quote --- To some extend true, but not about the leeches. These are still widely used to resolve problems with bleeding after a surgery. There is no good working modern substitute, for as far as I know, to drain the blood like these little suckers do. I myself like modern technology, but don't like the way it dumb down the general public. Everything pushed on the smartphone is often taken for granted and to be true, whilst often it is not. I certainly dislike the "thinking" it does for you. Like for instance that your IP address originates from France and that this triggers a lot of websites to switch to French no matter how you try to set it to English. And I know, one can setup a VPN for this, but that is the world upside down. But enough of a rant from me :-DD |
| wilfred:
--- Quote from: tooki on December 14, 2022, 10:40:58 am --- --- Quote from: eti on December 14, 2022, 10:40:17 am --- --- Quote from: tooki on December 14, 2022, 10:35:32 am --- --- Quote from: eti on December 14, 2022, 10:13:38 am ---I’ve said this many times over the years and I mean it. I’d go back to 1998-2003 era phones and BASIC internet in a heartbeat. … --- End quote --- For those who want a TL;DR: “I’m a whiny curmudgeon who doesn’t accept that other people have different priorities than me, so I’ve started yet another rant thread even after being officially warned to stop doing so.” --- End quote --- Hush, busybody. Go about your business and wind your neck in. --- End quote --- Nope. I’m gonna keep calling you out on your disruptive BS. --- End quote --- The case against doing that is it is the space it takes up in the list of new posts which I, and I believe, many others use to get a feel for what is going on, on the forum. I'm not saying you shouldn't respond but I think you'd be better off if you didn't. |
| Sherlock Holmes:
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 14, 2022, 11:19:35 am ---It's funny, I have the exact opposite opinion. A great deal of people on this forum, who shall remain unnamed, have strong views reminiscent of the Luddites. If we were listening to these people we'd still be using horses to pull carts. It's really odd to me that engineers would be so critical of the very field they are often involved in, you don't hear too many medical doctors arguing for leeches and trepanning still. --- End quote --- Few people seem to understand the history behind the Luddites, huge numbers of people lost the ability to feed their families, pay their rent, clothe their children. Wealth and capital exercised power, there were no unions, those changing society did so for their own gain not society's. The luddites resisted the only way they could, they were crushed by violence, murder even execution, the term is poorly used to depict a simple disapproval of technology, but it was never that, it was much more than that. |
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