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What is a piece of "improved" technology that you think is actually worse and makes life more annoying?
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This is going to be an unconventional one, but smart / streaming TV instead of the old days with Cable / live TV and renting movies.
I am over having 69 streaming services and an infinity of things to watch. It is too much. We start and never finish so many series.
I am over having 69 streaming services and an infinity of things to watch. It is too much. We start and never finish so many series.
We’ve decided against buying something in Florida. Going to rent if we go.Speaking from experience, if boredom is something you fear, Marco may not be the best place for you.
It's lovely, but there's a reason on the island they call 9 p.m. "Marco Midnight"
I have a ton of albums and books in a 2.5 by 5 inch machine I have on myself at all times.
Electronic/digital calendars. I want PAPER!My nominee is the Apple TV remote. In fact, the specific complaint I have is a problem with quite a few new device remotes/interfaces.
It is the goddam super-sensitivity.
Back in the day, to change a channel or turn off power or switch inputs, you had to PUSH DOWN a button with intent.
Now, my friggin' cat jumps on the couch a few inches from where the Apple remote is and BAM instead of watching the exciting end of a basketball game, it has switched to the PS5 input or put on the stupid HGTV channel my wife was watching previously. You breathe on the damn thing and it is activated. I hate this. Same with the insanely sensitive screens these days - just this morning when I reached into my pocket to get my phone out at the grocery store, I opened the damn garage door back at my house because I forgot to shut the myQ app.
And to cut the smartasses off at the pass, I know:
Same. I have to disable the auto parking feature before backing up our boat. 9/10 I’ll remember. But usually 1-2 times per summer I’ll forget and the brakes will lock up.Speaking of backing up in a new vehicle...
I am still old school enough that when I trailer a boat to a boat ramp I unplug my lights before backing into the water so as to avoid zapping the bulb(s). (Yes, I know that todays LED's are supposed to be immune from this problem, but old habits die hard.
My new truck cannot digest what I am doing and will beep and warn me about a potential read end collision, etc, etc, AND apply the brakes for me and stop me cold. GRRRRRR!
If there is a way to defeat this one, I don't know it yet.
So much this. The new calendar on Windows 365 focuses on the week you're in, not the entire month. I absolutely hate it.
TJ here and have had no “major” issues I haven’t been able to fix within an afternoon…but also not the daily driver (anymore).
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If you enjoy the format, good for you!
I won’t read books on my phone. I have a Kindle Scribe that’s pretty sweet and I read most books on it now, but also enjoy a real book quite a bit.
I also prefer the audio experience of my nice turntable set up, though I’m not one of those snobs that says it’s “better” and I use Apple Music all the time.
I just like the idea of being unplugged and out of network most of the time once I’m out of the working world.
Vinyl is a complete different experience with all the hisses and pops. Digital is too sterile.
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My 2025 wall calendar is "Florida Foods".
December 2024 was stone crab claws and January 2025 is Cuban sandwiches.
I refuse to look at future months until it's time to turn the page....
December 2024 was stone crab claws and January 2025 is Cuban sandwiches.
I refuse to look at future months until it's time to turn the page....
Not exactly technology related, but I’m going with all the plasticized women these days. Fake tits, fake nails, fake lips, fake face, no brain, and black hearts. They’re a dime a dozen and offer no substance. Give me a sassy MILF over any of them.
When you get back to Marco Island, try this fairly new restaurant:
https://www.844gulfandprime.com/ Very good.
My wife went there tonight, third time. Once was happy hour and the last two was dinner.
I met the two owners tonight through a friend. One is from Baltimore and the other other from Indiana. They used to own the Speak Easy. Sold it.
They bought the The Sand Bar and after while sold it. They then renovated a building and started 844. Ambitious individuals. They know how to make money work for you.
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I’m going with social media. I am generally an early adopter and dived headlong into Facebook in its early days. I naively thought it would be a great platform to bring people together. After several months using it I realized how wrong I was. I quit then and there and don’t have instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok or anything else except you crazy cats on HBOT.
I think it is a scourge that is dividing us, amplifying mental illness and spreading false information far and wide. I know the genie is out of the bottle, but damn I wish we could shove it back in.
I think it is a scourge that is dividing us, amplifying mental illness and spreading false information far and wide. I know the genie is out of the bottle, but damn I wish we could shove it back in.
Programs on Max, Disney, Prime, Netflix, Apple, are not on direct tv.
This.... why can't I just get my car do to 80 and I'll initiate the pass when I want to without losing speed? Was there like some rash of crashes where people got rear ended in the 1980s from cruise that I don't remember as a kid? Instead I have to turn off my targeting computer and use the force to figure out when my car is going to drop 7 mph before I have to stomp on it to get back up to speed.
This is an awesome list other then #4. You couldn't pay me to live in FL, other then that this is a great list. Retirement might be in LA or OK. Maybe the outer banks.
Not sure, but I think he means those apps are available on the Direct TV streaming platform so you don't have to exit to sign into those services.
You can watch Netflix, prime, and Apple within directv? I haven’t had it for many years and was not aware that was a thing.*
*edited to note you can, but you go to a Home Screen to enter the app, just like you would do on a Roku or your tv, to access an app.
Smart phones and the internet have all but ruined human interaction and basic social norms.
Something as simple as starting a conversation waiting in line or conversing with a passenger in your car is now an interruption.
Apparently a response to a snap chat or tick toc post is more important than anything going on around you in the moment
Something as simple as starting a conversation waiting in line or conversing with a passenger in your car is now an interruption.
Apparently a response to a snap chat or tick toc post is more important than anything going on around you in the moment
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Every vehicle I've owned has a button to turn it off, Jeep, BWM, Mercedes, GMC Canyon. I can't believe there is a vehicle out there that doesn't have it.
We have a bunch of people who are largely incapable of having a conversation. All they do is yell and scream what they want, how they feel, etc etc. The concept of of a dialogue or two-way exchange is something many of them do not grasp. Listening skills are becoming increasingly rare.
I’ve seen YouTube videos of Chevys that have a disable switch next to the hazard lights switch. Mine does not.
On Friday my coworker was telling me how her husband insisted they replace every lightbulb in their home with a google lightbulbs. She was complaining that every time her internet goes out, so do all the lights in her home.
This, specifically as it relates to push-button start. If something happened to the fob on my Nissan I wouldn't be able to use the physical key to turn the damn thing on, because you pop off the plastic cover over where the ignition should be and there's just...nothing. It's just empty.
Speaking of which, to start it I have to be in the driver's seat with the foot fully on the brake pedal. Really sucks on those days where I just want to start it but there's a mini Sahara or Siberia inside the car. At least it's old enough that it still has a mini LCD screen fully integrated into the dash, rather than one of those tablet-cum-entertainment center Frankenstein abominations that seem to be in every new car now, sticking up over the dash like the monolith in 2001. I want to hang on to this thing until that fad dies out. /very csb
That's all I was saying. You don't have to switch inputs in order to choose a different app, but you still have to pay for each service. I agree with @beanerhawk that it was better when there weren't so many different services you have pay for to get all the content available. There are way too many choices these days.
I was using the term input in a generic sense but yes, you don’t need to have a different physical input, if you use a Roku and YTTV, and apparently also directv streaming. I appreciate all of the content but there is going to be a point where it collapses - at least for original content creation - because the baby is bing split too many ways.
You don't have to switch inputs to choose a different app with other services either.
