I used to be a tech enthusiast. I am becoming a tech dethusiast. I don’t want any more tech to buy. I don’t want smart appliances. I don’t want smart pants. I don’t want smart dumbbells.
I just want things that I can buy and that work for 20 years.
Like every other week there’s a new exploit that I have to chase down and quash or else our company could maybe just stop existing, and all my coworkers wonder why I’m constantly on edge. There’s no way in hell I’m inviting more of that stress into my life so I can tell Alexa to turn on a light.
I have coworkers who are in their fifties and did not know that saying and honestly the lack of severe distrust of The Computer really informs their design work
a mechanic friend of mine who works at a dealers mechanic shop had to total a brand new pick up (i forget whether or not it was an EV) because the computer for the radio shat the bed 2k miles in, which iirc led to a domino effect of every other computer part being compromised
Early in my career, we used rubber chickens for the same purpose. What’s scary is that sometimes a good chicken smack would make something start working again.
Pro tip: bring a broken printer to a rage room and let your inner Office Space free
It’s cathartic as hell *and* you can keep the bent metal roller to shake at any future printers so they fall in line
I work in the video games industry and tbh every day I feel *less* confident we really understand how computers work. I for one am preparing for life under our inevitable robot overlords.
Trying to print a semester project for a psychology class that I had to do a major rewrite on and it would not print anywhere. I beat my printer, yelling "PRINT YOU MOTHERFU@KER PRINT! I WILL THROUGH OUT THE WINDOW!" I did bruise my hand, it did print. I was on the 12th floor. It IS REAL.
Our 2007 Infiniti M35 (which we bought used) is now standing at 225K miles and purring like a kitten. It's only shortcoming is requiring premium gas and getting 20 mpg. But honestly, newer cars are actually MORE reliable, IME, as long as you maintain them properly.
Ours is a Civic 2007, and apart from an inconvenient habit of occasionally leaking through the passenger side floor during periods of heavy rain, it's still going strong
We just last week sold our 77 mercedes diesel (that we bought for $300 in 2011) and I am so sad. But also we don’t want the kids driving without airbags so…
Yeah, they are great cars! But…teenagers don’t need tanks, they need a reliable toyota or mazda or honda with plenty of safety features and probably an automatic transmission
Oh, for sure! I just look back on the 1980-something Merc that I partly learned to drive in with nostalgia that has nothing to do with kids learning to drive today.
i could also stand for something with side-leg airbags, after the ones in my wrx saved me from traction when it was t-boned last year
only reason i even have any desire to upgrade our prius again really, with how large the other vehicles are and how bad drivers have gotten since 2020
