Why I hate technology

[bazokajoe]

I hate technology because...

1)Why is it when you buy a new washing machine/fridge/car,you get an owners manual.When you buy a laptop/cellphone/tablet,you don't get a users manual.Why the fuck do the manufactures expect everyone to know how to use a computer or cellphone and all it's features.
A manual for a washing machine tells you all the features,how to use them and what they are good for.

2) The advance in electronics has made us a throw away society.If your laptop gets broken(within reason) you are told to throw it away and just get another one.My last laptop needed a small repair and no one would fix it.They all refused to do it.

3)Take a look at a car from the 60's or 70's.You open the hood and you can see the ground under the engine.Pop the hood on a new car and it's nothing but wires and boxes of electonics and controls.The neighbourhood mechanic is gone now.You need a diagnostic computer to figure out whats wrong with a car now.The old timers could tell just by your description and the sound of the motor whats wrong.

4)People rely to much on technolgy in my opinion.I would rather use a phone book than my laptop or cell phone to find a buisness or their phone #.

Only thing about technology I like are big screen TV's and HD channels,lol.

 

[explorerzip]

I hate technology because...

1)Why is it when you buy a new washing machine/fridge/car,you get an owners manual.When you buy a laptop/cellphone/tablet,you don't get a users manual.Why the fuck do the manufactures expect everyone to know how to use a computer or cellphone and all it's features.
A manual for a washing machine tells you all the features,how to use them and what they are good for.

2) The advance in electronics has made us a throw away society.If your laptop gets broken(within reason) you are told to throw it away and just get another one.My last laptop needed a small repair and no one would fix it.They all refused to do it.

3)Take a look at a car from the 60's or 70's.You open the hood and you can see the ground under the engine.Pop the hood on a new car and it's nothing but wires and boxes of electonics and controls.The neighbourhood mechanic is gone now.You need a diagnostic computer to figure out whats wrong with a car now.The old timers could tell just by your description and the sound of the motor whats wrong.

4)People rely to much on technolgy in my opinion.I would rather use a phone book than my laptop or cell phone to find a buisness or their phone #.

Only thing about technology I like are big screen TV's and HD channels,lol.

So Terb is included on the technologies you hate? I look forward to more reviews from you on the bathroom walls

 

[oldjones]

I hate technology because...

1)Why is it when you buy a new washing machine/fridge/car,you get an owners manual.…

Oh yeah? Mine came with a VHS tape. Everytime I want to find out what a setting does, the 'QuickStart Manual'[sic] tells me to watch the vid.

That's why I hate the folks who have sold their brains to technology.

2) The advance in electronics has made us a throw away society.If your laptop gets broken(within reason) you are told to throw it away and just get another one.My last laptop needed a small repair and no one would fix it.They all refused to do it.

They will repair a desktop 'puter in a box, but you picked the laptop. If the problem is in an integrated circuit, then you should bought something with replaceable vacuum-tubes. They only sell what we buy. We only throw away what we're to lazy or cheap to recycle

3)Take a look at a car from the 60's or 70's.You open the hood and you can see the ground under the engine.Pop the hood on a new car and it's nothing but wires and boxes of electonics and controls.The neighbourhood mechanic is gone now.You need a diagnostic computer to figure out whats wrong with a car now.The old timers could tell just by your description and the sound of the motor whats wrong.

You can still find those old cars to buy, although most of them have rusted away by now, and the gas mileage and pollution will kill you. How many 'improvements' did you tell the salesman you didn't want?

4)People rely to much on technolgy in my opinion.I would rather use a phone book than my laptop or cell phone to find a buisness or their phone #.

Me too! Phone books are easy to use and cheap to produce, they never need charging or interrupt your name search with a text message and scanning a page of related info often improves your search. Easy to leave one under the car seat, or anywhere you might want the info, and carry a way smaller phone in your pocket. Way more dependable and useful than anything electronic. But that last TO business and Yellow Pages book was too meager to be useful at all, and the whitepages—which has no numbers for those without landlines was a year away, so I dumped the whole deal and going for cheap Android tablets to leave where I want that sort of info.

As with pretty much anything: Evolution says we will get the technology we deserve, because it is what we have chosen.

Only thing about technology I like are big screen TV's and HD channels,lol.

Until the cable goes, or the TV quits. Get free OTA with an old-tech antenna and pump it into a CRT TV, available free along the raod on any trash or recycling day.

 

[james t kirk]

Technology is great until it breaks down.

Then you are in a shit load of trouble.

I'm a car guy. Love cars. Been laying under them, restoring them, rebuilding them on my own over the years. I love cars from the 60's and 70's and yes, they are simpler, but I'd hate to live in a world populated by cars from the 60's and 70's. The pollution that gets thrown out by them is overpowering. I've been in several cruise night drives with my beast from the mid 70's and I almost choke to death being in a line of "classic cars". The smell is sickening. Never mind the constant maintenance that is needed with the damn things.

Love my classic cars, but love my modern engineered day to day driver too.

Oh, and the principle of internal combustion engine is the same today as it was in 1965. Pistons, crankshafts, cam shafts, valves and such.

 

[danmand]

Oh yeah? Mine came with a VHS tape. Everytime I want to find out what a setting does, the 'QuickStart Manual'[sic] tells me to watch the vid.

That's why I hate the folks who have sold their brains to technology.

here is a screen swipe from the vhs:

 

[SchlongConery]

The good old days!

 

[explorerzip]

The good old days!

That's way too advanced technology for me. This is the most reliable way of delivering messages as long as it doesn't hit a building, or a plane or get eaten by a hawk

 

[GameBoy27]

Technology is great until it breaks down.

Then you are in a shit load of trouble.

It's also turned us into an extremely impatient generation. You open your browser and for some reason it takes 5 seconds to load and you're already swearing at the internet. Or your smartphone freezes for a couple seconds and you're instantly ready to throw it against a wall. Okay, maybe it's just me.

I'm a car guy. Love cars. Been laying under them, restoring them, rebuilding them on my own over the years. I love cars from the 60's and 70's and yes, they are simpler, but I'd hate to live in a world populated by cars from the 60's and 70's. The pollution that gets thrown out by them is overpowering. I've been in several cruise night drives with my beast from the mid 70's and I almost choke to death being in a line of "classic cars". The smell is sickening.

No kidding, modern cars have virtually zero exhaust smell. I can be in heavy traffic and all I can smell is the cigarette smoke the person 5 cars cars ahead of me.

Oh, and the principle of internal combustion engine is the same today as it was in 1965. Pistons, crankshafts, cam shafts, valves and such.

Yes, just way more efficient and you don't see anywhere near the number of cars stopped on the shoulder with mechanical failures.

 

[nobody123]

Joe, Joe, Joe. I'm with you 100% on the cranky old curmudgeon who doesn't like change thing. Really I am. Why, just this week I bought a laptop with Windows 8 on it and I'm ready to pop a blood vessel in response to its Fisher-Price-meets-ergonomics-expert-on-Peyote as a design philosophy.

But!

Even on fucking Win 8 (have I mentioned that I don't like it?) where every stray twitch of the mouse is interpreted as a "swoop" gesture intended to launch some motherfucking app I don't want or need, it is easy enough to find electronic tutorials, help, and manuals. Most new computers have "get started" tutorials right there when you first fire them up. No, no no! Not Youporn. That's for later. First, the computer tutorial. Granted, it's not always front and centre - for example on this Win 8 piece of fucking shit (I don't like it) I had to spend all of ten minutes flailing about on a start page that couldn't possibly be more useless or unwanted - nothing but a graveyard for wannabe apple widgets and shit. But really, a few minutes to shut down those waste-of-pixels apps and Bob's your uncle: "help with using comp x", "Get started with comp X" "how to use win8 without tearing your eyes out in rage" and so forth.

And google is your friend. Even if you can't find the on-board shit when you fire up your new computer, you will find hundreds, nay, thousands of You Tube tutorials or step-by-step help instructions on every fecking thing from making Win8 look more like a real OS (Win 8, I do not like it) to how to repair the screen you just punched in a fit of fury. Not to mention, you know, actual manuals in electronic form.

The manuals you miss cost money to make, and require paper to print. They add to the cost of the product and contribute to the degradation of our natural environment. Is that really what you want? Too make the world less safe for our kids just because you are too lazy to download or read a pdf manual? Think of the children, Joe. What about the children?

 

[bazokajoe]

What about the children! I don't want to be clicking back and forth between a pdf and my program I am trying to use.

What about people(and there are lots of them)who buy something(eg.washer/dryer)who don't have a home computer and it comes without an actual paper manual? How does this "save the forest for the kiddies" help them?The mining companies are stripping the forests down pretty good anyways.Which is fine with me( I am not a tree hugger by the way)


Look,technology is here,and advancing at a phenomenal rate.But why do tech. companies, and so many other companies, just take for granted everyone has access to the internet at their finger tips?

You can't tell me it costs alot of $$ to print up a manual.That's a crock of doo doo.I am going to guess it might cost roughly $3-5,and thats probably a high guess.

 

[homerjsimpson]

Hey, technology has brought me Japanese p0rn. I can put up with all the little things.

 

[bazokajoe]

Homer....I love the sig pic

 

[onthebottom]

gramps is grumpy.... now go tell those kids to get off your lawn....

 

[james t kirk]

Homer....I love the sig pic

Here you go:



http://www.shaylaren.com/

 

[oldjones]

here is a screen swipe from the vhs:

Couldn't be; it's a front-loader like this one.

You did notice a washing machine, didn't you?

 

[oldjones]

…The manuals you miss cost money to make, and require paper to print. They add to the cost of the product and contribute to the degradation of our natural environment. Is that really what you want? Too make the world less safe for our kids just because you are too lazy to download or read a pdf manual? Think of the children, Joe. What about the children?

Although bound paper technology is far cheaper, longer lasting and more reliable than highly sophisticated electronics that need an entire electrical grid to keep their environmentally hazardous batteries charged while you hope to gain enough facility with their impenetrable interfaces to be able to find and read the thing called a 'manual' (if it hasn't been given only a code or acronym instead of a name in a language humans use) so you can finally use the wondrous thing, <pause for breath> the problem is elsewhere and only made worse by pdfs instead of print.

No one writes a clear, concise set on instructions any more. Back when a paper draft in an intray would be replaced by a paper publication, there was a slim chance enough influential folks might skim it in passing for someone to say, 'this makes no sense' even if it was the guy in the next cubicle. Since no one actually has the time to do anything as mundane as wait to download/boot up/ open and read a manual for the thing she's spent the last few years developing, and what was submitted is actually only a link on some page in some file, who checks that it's complete, relevant and not rife with mistakes? Can a manual be full of omissions? The one I downloaded for my phone sure left out most of the stuff I wanted to do or undo.

Frankly I don't care whether I get the instructions on sensible old paper or trendy digital documents, but it sure says something when some guy's getting rich publishing a string of 500 page technology books titled 'The Missing Manual; the book that should have been in the box'. Wouldn't things be a bit better, and all of us a little wiser, if the techno-tyrants actually behaved as if they thought we were entitled to know how to use the stuff they churn out? Because we paid for it? A few score pages that are mostly irrelevant safety warnings ordered up as an afterthought from some English Academy on the other side of the world and never actually checked just doesn't cut it. And trees still die for the safety stuff, because people do check that.

Even less useful is a glitzy Flash™ video, although those unwatchable things will eventually make all pretext of providing manuals obsolete.

 

[Bianca Bailey]

Theres a technology war going on I'm convinced of it. I tried to stay away but I'm addicted to my cell (which is amazing btw) and social media in all forms. I've just accepted and came to terms with it. My mom has a cell phone from like the 1800s and doesn't know what texting is lol but she wouldn't have it any other way (much simplier that way I guess and she also says shes too old (but doesn't look it) for youth people phones? lol).

Oh and I'm pretty sure you can google the make and model to get whatever manual u need or if ur like me u learn from trial and error and the helpfulness of strangers lol.

 

[Bianca Bailey]

Lol, isn't that more like the 80s? Those should so make a comeback but it would be hard to fit in a clutch purse so maybe not and theres no camera for late night bathroom mirror pics.

 

[Bianca Bailey]

So sorry about that. I'm semi retired I should say. I didn't announce anything because I was still deciding but I will be ocassionally available. I'll advertise the proper way when I am.

 

[nobody123]

Look,technology is here,and advancing at a phenomenal rate.But why do tech. companies, and so many other companies, just take for granted everyone has access to the internet at their finger tips?

In spite of my earlier post, I agree with you 100% (it's just that it had been a few hours since I had been a miserable shit on TERB and I couldn't help meself. I hope the reductio ad dumbass of "what about the children" made it obvious that I wasn't entirely serious there.). Anyways, yeah. Fecking online manuals. Blech! It's particularly egregious with phones. I use my phone to actually make phone calls (call me crazy!) and can't be arsed to look up any online manuals. It also sucks that more and more software and games for any device require an "Always on" internet connection, which is presumptive and wrong in so very many ways.

Even less useful is a glitzy Flash™ video, although those unwatchable things will eventually make all pretext of providing manuals obsolete.

I broke down and watched some of the flash instructional vids for this abortion of a machine I just bought. Now even though I feel absolutely none the wiser, I also feel that I've been really, really condescended to.