This isn't humor, and most tech people have some of this shit. 3/10.
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Same thing for mechanics. My dad has wrenched for 45 years and you should see what he drives lol
Exactly.
My first personal e-mail way back in the 90s was with my ISP. Then I changed ISPs and saw the problem with that. So I moved to Yahoo.
Some years later, in the 00s I just decided to get my own, paid for, Internet domain and have my e-mail there, even though I could've carried on using Yahoo or get Google Mail (very popular amongst techies back then) for free. The main reason was that I realized I must made sure the e-mail address was MINE, not actually owned by somebody else with me allowed to use it under their conditions.
Twenty years later and guess it was pretty wise to not have my e-mail in the claws of "Definitelly Do Evil" Google.
Experience using and living with Tech, mainly once your understanding of it reaches the level of understanding systemic elements, naturally informs ones choices in Tech, and that often means chosing something else than the mass marketed "popular" stuff that's designed to lock you in, sell you stuff or sell your attention to others and eavesdrop on you and sell your data.
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Technology under capitalism becomes a hazard and a threat.
i've worked with highly competent programmes and sysadmins whose houses are entirely connected. they do exist.
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I have plenty of iot devices. Like anything that goes online, it’s how you set it up. If you know how to monitor traffic, it’s not terribly hard to get these things to behave how you want them to.
Home assistant!
People connect their thermostat to the internet?
Yes, so they can change it while they are away from home ... for some reason.
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A big issue is, IT is a very broad field with many parts extremely niche and disconnected from each other.
It's like saying "work in science" that could mean anything.
I've met more than a few programmers that were above average, but could barely turn on their computer.
I've had many discussions with friends, saying I should work on servers or desktops when my IT experience is in medical databases and interfaces (HL7)...
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