• 2 years 7 months ago
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    Alyssa_Branen wrote:
    Losing power for more than a few hours at a time (Like 9 or more) usually makes me realize how much I can't seem to "function" without technology of some sort lol. It also makes me realize i'd never survive without electricity.

    I have one of those battery back-up/surge protector devices that will keep my computer and everything else I have plugged into it turned on for around two hours after a power outage. I also have a couple of Walkman-style cassette and CD players and of coarse, my smartphone along with a set of battery powered amplified speakers that I use as a "back-up" whenever there is a power outage in my area. Although I'm "lost" without the internet whenever there is an outage, as long as I at least have my music, I'm happy.
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      • 8 months 1 day ago
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      This whole topic is more than ironic. I've been getting fed up with technology, myself lately too. I've even started to reject it to the extreme. If there's a movie I like, I buy it on VHS, I've been turning off my phone more and more lately(thinking of dropping it altogether.) I'm just sick of how consumer-driven our whole society has gotten.
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        • 8 months 1 day ago
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        The issue is some people make technology work for them, and others become slaves to it. Modern conveniences have literally cleared up hours of time someone might spend on cleaning, cooking, researching etc. When it comes to technology, I take what I need and dump what I don't.
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          • 8 months 15 hours ago
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          randomuser2349 wrote:
          And when I wanted to sign up for some sites, they kept demanding that they texted me. I can understand that cell phones are good to have but starting somewhere in 2007 many sites REQUIRE that you have a cell phone to use it.

          WTF kind of websites are these? I have never experienced this.
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            • 7 months 16 days ago
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            The_Batman wrote:
            The other day I looked around and started just really noticing all the high tech stuff around me...and I wa slike when the hell did all this happen? I started thinking about what it was like before everyone had a cell phone, no mp3 players and flats screens. Video game controllers were plugged into the console. We had to sit and rewind our VHS tapes. 3-d was a pair of cardboard glassess with a red and blue lens. What happen to those days?

            Yeah. But what's so wrong with it?
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              • 5 months 4 days ago
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              I remember when my parents brought home our first computer when I was a kid. I also remember having a dial up modem. But to me having AOL and yahoo messenger was the best thing ever haha.
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                • 5 months 3 days ago
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                I like in old sci-fi how the technology is basically the same. Like screens are still CRTs, even though they're smaller and built into taxi seats or flying drones. And newspapers still have to be delivered every day even when they're electronic scrolls. And payphones still exist.
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                  • 5 months 3 days ago
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                  stake n sheak wrote:
                  I like in old sci-fi how the technology is basically the same. Like screens are still CRTs, even though they're smaller and built into taxi seats or flying drones. And newspapers still have to be delivered every day even when they're electronic scrolls. And payphones still exist.


                  Yup, and the car looks like a rocket but still has 4 Goodyears underneath.
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                    • 5 months 2 days ago
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                    Oh yeah? Well nobody's come close to making a lightsaber yet so... that's something.
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                      • 5 months 1 day ago
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                      Right now I'm buying a bunch of music mostly from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and all of them being on glorious 80s CD technology. It didn't take much to please people before but nowadays people want the newest stuff and forget the good ol' times people had without all of that.
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