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[Tech] It's for grownups! And sometimes kids!
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We need a new tech thread to talk about technology, consumer and otherwise.
Speaking of which:
We're thinking about getting my 10 year old a cell phone because she's starting to have more after-school activities and other semi-independent activities and her having a phone would be really handy. I've been trying to figure out what the best way to give her a phone safely is, and I like the idea of the Google Family Link set of parent controls as a way to get her a better phone that we can still keep pretty locked down, and gradually relax the limits as she gets older.
Has anyone in here tried it that can speak to real world pros and cons?
Speaking of which:
We're thinking about getting my 10 year old a cell phone because she's starting to have more after-school activities and other semi-independent activities and her having a phone would be really handy. I've been trying to figure out what the best way to give her a phone safely is, and I like the idea of the Google Family Link set of parent controls as a way to get her a better phone that we can still keep pretty locked down, and gradually relax the limits as she gets older.
Has anyone in here tried it that can speak to real world pros and cons?
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In my defense, the last round of tech replacements gave all the branch managers a laptop and a dock so that we could take our work computers to in-person meetings more easily (whoops.jpg) and mine came with a mouse but not a keyboard. And since I didn't want to request another mushy enterprise-grade Dell keyboard from IT, I've just been using my old Eclipse. But recently it's been dropping inputs on the left side of the keyboard, and so I reluctantly went to Best Buy to replace it.
Lo and behold, before I could even get to the keyboard section I spotted a Fnatic Streak on the clearance rack for $50. That's the same keyboard I replaced the Eclipse with in the first place, and so I bought it.
I know it's bad form to buy a mechanical keyboard for an office setting, but it's got brown switches instead of the blues I use at home, and I've got my own office that's right next to the noisy book sorter in any case. Also, shut up. I've got a great keyboard for the computer I'm forced to use 40 hours a week, and we're in love, and we're running away together.
Now my only problem is getting used to the lighter key resistance, so I don't accidentally keep typing wwwwwwwwwwww into a random field because I let my finger rest too heavily.
I feel you, s'why I prep my keyboard switches with nothing less than a 62g bottom out spring.
don't like this
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Cell phone service in my area is either Verizon or T Mobile. I currently use Verizon, but I will soon need a new phone. I think I can get a new phone much cheaper from T Mobile
I use T-Mobile and have been very happy. But obviously all cell service stuff is wildly local, so ymmv
For regular use, T-Mobile is likely perfectly good for you. I have heard about issues with reception in some areas though, so if there's anyway to find a local coverage map or talk to someone who uses T-Mobile in your actual area you should try to do that.
stop lying!
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
I'd avoid T-Mobile if you don't have a 5G phone, but you're probably fine if you do.
I will be waiting as long as possible to migrate over to windows 11.
I just want my stuff to work. Someone else can deal with the inevitable launch bugs.
My current phone, a Pixel 3a, is three years old and that darn thing with the charging port bring worn and the charger not staying in it unless I position both phone and cord s certain is a pain in the ass
Hooray! Robots!
I keep thinking about how we got here and then thinking about this tweet
Better? Probably not. But will it, like drones, allow for more indiscriminate murder with less accountability? You bet. Fuck everything about it.
ultimately it will end up somewhat cheaper on paper and do a "good enough" job when it comes to jobs like "shoot anyone who walks across the border crossing", where groups of them can be put on patrol with minimal supervision
and then in a few years the overblown budgets of municipal police departments will buy them as refurbished toys, they'll be retrofitted with somewhat-less-lethal chemical weapons and then turned on domestic protestors and used to clear homeless encampments
If you ask someone to fly a drone and push a button to bomb a hospital because there's probably a terrorist in it, they'll probably go through with it
Apply that logic to a sniper and a sniper drone
I’d wager it’s the opposite if the current drone program is anything to go by.
Every ethics professor just yelling, "TOLD YALL TROLLEY PROBLEM MATTERED!"
I meant sniperbots inflict less collateral damage than bomber drones.
Zuckerberg you greedy lying shitfucker there should be billions of dollars carved out of your pale narrow ass
Decimated is the wrong word, it's more like the inverse, since we lost 90% of these communities not 10%
reduce by 10, which is big if your talking about lives in a platoon of roman centurions, but not when talking about whole industry shifts.
I think the second. To kill every tenth person in the traditional meaning.
Obviously now a days it is just to cause a lot of damage/
1 out of 10 dudes, or 10% of something.
It was a way to severely punish a whole army while still having an army left afterward.
Due to shifting usage, these days it means "to absolutely shithouse a person/place/thing" and that's fine.
It came up in a conversation earlier about Ozy 's similarity to the Facebook/instagram deposition that's going on
Ahhhh gotcha