Interesting video

scottro said:
PMc, you seem a bit of a cynic. And I find myself agreeing with almost every post you make. It's sad what the world has become.
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Well, this is a great day for me - I got an eFix today! So now I can indeed say, sometimes I manage to not only grumble, but improve things a little bit. And much thanks for the feedback - that is more than I usually hope for. :)
 
What's his point exactly? I don't understand the 1 person thing,
Consumer computers are a scam, yeah. They shouldn't be monolithic disposables but a scalable amount of processing units that provide a predictable performance and are individually replaceable.
Worse is smartphones. Throw away CPU, display, storage, graphics and audio hardware because the OS decided to no longer support things...
 
He is saying the Internet has scaled to the size where its reliance these single person open source software components deep within its infrastructure is extremely risky and that most people don't seem to be aware of this fragility. [And implicitly he seems to be saying the Internet needs to be made far more resilient.]
 
The doomsday the speaker preaches about is a catastrophy of your own making...if you choose to live a lifestyle that is dependent upon the internet in the first place. Live a cash lifestyle, refuse to use credit or to give out confidential personal information...vote with your wallet by not using products and services that rely upon the digital economy model. Oh, and learn how do traditional homesteading skills. Yeah. it's all gonna go to hell in a hand-basket eventually, and those of us who are closet preppers actually sneak an occasional smile at the prospect of it all falling on its ass.

Turn off. Tune out. Disconnect. There is a wonderful analog world out there to be experienced.
 
kent_dorfman766 said:
The doomsday the speaker preaches about is a catastrophy of your own making...if you choose to live a lifestyle that is dependent upon the internet in the first place. Live a cash lifestyle, refuse to use credit or to give out confidential personal information...vote with your wallet by not using products and services that rely upon the digital economy model. Oh, and learn how do traditional homesteading skills. Yeah. it's all gonna go to hell in a hand-basket eventually, and those of us who are closet preppers actually sneak an occasional smile at the prospect of it all falling on its ass.

Turn off. Tune out. Disconnect. There is a wonderful analog world out there to be experienced.
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You can't live without the Internet these days unless you are in some isolated jungle in the Amazon. If you work, are retired or sick, or want to buy a ticket for travel of for some performance your details will be entered into a database.

How do live a cash lifestyle if you don't have a bank to with draw money from? It would imply that you are engaged in some activity outside the 'system'.
 
I can see already by the picture that this is "one of these monster snakes eating monster trucks" YT videos I don't even bother to click on, especially not wasting my time on watching such.
But by what others wrote - and I agree with it's unpleasent to just get a video's picture linked to the YT video without anything saying what's it all about - I post the according xkcd:

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OT: As others have mentioned, I was just thinking about this the other day about titles in new threads. So often you can't tell what the subject is by the title alone to see if it applies to you or interests you. Clicking on it is a waste of time or, in some cases, you miss out because you thought it would be a waste of time based on a poor title.

What I really hate, and I see it on social media ll the time, are titles that are statements but end in a question mark. I don't have a good example but I'm making bread again and saw this, "Sourdough bread?" What the heck is that?
 
Maturin said:
My personal favorite thread title is the old all time classic:
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
also known in its variants
NEED URGENT HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
or
HELP, please!!
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Followed some minutes later by postings from the same person berating the other users for not immediately jumping on it, or, "no longer needed, I just fixed it".
 
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