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| tooki:
--- Quote from: Gyro on December 14, 2022, 07:31:45 pm --- --- Quote from: eti on December 14, 2022, 11:14:41 am ---It’s strange that I’ve posted this same thing on a couple of my social media outlets, all of which have received likes and positive feedback and INTELLIGENT discussion (and not a single sniff of “you’re ranting”) I feel EEVblog has an infestation of toxic, angry, insular loners with no outlet except to attack people with whom they don’t agree. ... --- End quote --- If you've posted the same thing on your 'social media outlets' and received a more positive result, it's probably a good indication that you should restrict these sort of topics to those, rather than eevblog, which is primarily an education / design / development / repair / production focussed place. --- End quote --- I think you put into words a reason I hadn’t realized why I find his rants so irritating: I largely quit using social media, in part to avoid such rants. I don’t come to eevblog to socialize, I come to learn. |
| John B:
The OP can be summed up as "symptom treatment". I don't even deny that technology has enabled a host of personal vices. But don't conflate the tools with the product. |
| Red Squirrel:
I agree. I also hate how everything seems to revolve around needing a smartphone now too. I see a lot of basic things like security cameras and even internet routers that require an app just to configure it. Of course you also need to setup an account and all that BS. Pisses me off so much, it doesn't have to be that way at all. It would be possible to have smart phones without all the strings attached but then they couldn't sell our info! It's all about spying on us at the end of the day. That, and planned obsolescence. They can render your product obsolete by simply ceasing to update the app. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. |
| thm_w:
--- Quote from: eti on December 14, 2022, 10:13:38 am ---It’s all a huge crock, and many of you spend THIRTY POUNDS OR MORE PER MONTH on this idiotic addiction. --- End quote --- Oh no, someone is spending $30/month for their cell phone. Instead of.... spending $30/month for their landline as they used to. The horror. --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 14, 2022, 07:31:16 pm ---Which is, unfortunately, and increasingly, a wrong statement. More and more services now are requiring a smartphone, and this is just the beginning. Living without one will soon mean living completely outside of society. If you call that having a choice, I don't think it's a fair one. --- End quote --- I don't see how this is any different than saying "more and more services are requiring a PC, not having a PC is not a fair choice". If you really want to get crazy you can use an android emulator on the PC. --- Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 15, 2022, 12:24:43 am ---I agree. I also hate how everything seems to revolve around needing a smartphone now too. I see a lot of basic things like security cameras and even internet routers that require an app just to configure it. Of course you also need to setup an account and all that BS. Pisses me off so much, it doesn't have to be that way at all. It would be possible to have smart phones without all the strings attached but then they couldn't sell our info! It's all about spying on us at the end of the day. That, and planned obsolescence. They can render your product obsolete by simply ceasing to update the app. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. --- End quote --- Old school wired cameras still exist, and they can be set up on the device themselves (hikvision, dahua, etc.). Routers, maybe some cheap ones? Any major brand should have a standard web interface. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: thm_w on December 15, 2022, 12:43:49 am --- --- Quote from: eti on December 14, 2022, 10:13:38 am ---It’s all a huge crock, and many of you spend THIRTY POUNDS OR MORE PER MONTH on this idiotic addiction. --- End quote --- Oh no, someone is spending $30/month for their cell phone. Instead of.... spending $30/month for their landline as they used to. The horror. --- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 14, 2022, 07:31:16 pm ---Which is, unfortunately, and increasingly, a wrong statement. More and more services now are requiring a smartphone, and this is just the beginning. Living without one will soon mean living completely outside of society. If you call that having a choice, I don't think it's a fair one. --- End quote --- I don't see how this is any different than saying "more and more services are requiring a PC, not having a PC is not a fair choice". If you really want to get crazy you can use an android emulator on the PC. --- Quote from: Red Squirrel on December 15, 2022, 12:24:43 am ---I agree. I also hate how everything seems to revolve around needing a smartphone now too. I see a lot of basic things like security cameras and even internet routers that require an app just to configure it. Of course you also need to setup an account and all that BS. Pisses me off so much, it doesn't have to be that way at all. It would be possible to have smart phones without all the strings attached but then they couldn't sell our info! It's all about spying on us at the end of the day. That, and planned obsolescence. They can render your product obsolete by simply ceasing to update the app. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy. --- End quote --- Old school wired cameras still exist, and they can be set up on the device themselves (hikvision, dahua, etc.). Routers, maybe some cheap ones? Any major brand should have a standard web interface. --- End quote --- As regards the price, I suppose being from USA or maybe Canada (I don’t want to get that wrong he he!) you’re used to being blatantly ripped off by carriers, and it’s not a shock to you. I often chuckle when I hear US radio ads on TWiT.tv crowing about “A huuuuuuge 10GB of data for only $30 per month” THIRTY DOLLARS?!!!!! Lmfao So yeah I’m unsurprised that you don’t see these ripoffs as so bad any more. |
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