February 21, 2025 at 12:00 am
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Moving On After a Technology Fail
February 21, 2025 at 7:09 am
For programming languages we have https://www.codeconvert.ai/ and https://rosettacode.org/
It would be great if there was the equivalent for mapping functionality of various technologies, whether it be wearable tech, digital musical instruments, domestic appliances.
I particularly want one that can tell me how to set the clock on my cooker.
February 21, 2025 at 4:06 pm
I save so many manuals as PDFs. I know I can search, but a) that can be a pain when I'm trying to do something, and b) sometimes companies pull manuals.
February 21, 2025 at 4:33 pm
This is a daily difference in my home. While I do like to keep my tech relatively up to date, I'm also one to keep things around long past their 'expire date'. But my wife is exactly the opposite. I just counted and we have exactly ten computers in our home office, but only three of them get used with any amount of regularity. There are two more on/under the desks, and five in the closet. Someday...
I call my wife my 'gadget girl'. She is constantly buying new things that arrive at the door by Amazon, USPS, UPS, Fedex. I try not to comment about anything I've looked at or considered, because it will arrive the next day at the front door. Sometimes I feel guilty deciding to throw away some item just because we have three newer versions stored away in the basement.
As far as the tech fail rate, it often comes down to researching for repair shops or replacement parts, etc online and deciding if the cost of repairs is justified. There is one 32" monitor now sitting in my garage ( has been there since last summer ). I did order a power supply replacement for it, but by the time the part arrived, I had decided it wasn't worth it, so returned the part.
Another of my hangups is old power supplies and cables. Couple weeks ago I got out my digital camera - that my wife bought for me years ago. It is very nice, and works very well for high-quality photos. Problem was the battery. It took over an hour of research to find a replacement for the obsolete item from some unknown company, so I bought two. I had the power supply in my desk drawer, but alas, no cable that would fit. However, in the basement storage is a box with about #40 of power supplies and cables. In that box I found a neatly coiled cable labeled 'Lumix Camera'. There are also about 60 power supplies that I have no idea what they are for.
Rick
Disaster Recovery = Backup ( Backup ( Your Backup ) )
February 21, 2025 at 6:01 pm
Sounds like my office closet. Some older tech in there, including (I think) still a Jazz drive and disks.
I wish I could repair this watch, but the break is where the pin would sit to hold the band, and I lost the broken piece. otherwise, I might have tried some epoxy.
February 21, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Sounds like my office closet. Some older tech in there, including (I think) still a Jazz drive and disks.
I wish I could repair this watch, but the break is where the pin would sit to hold the band, and I lost the broken piece. otherwise, I might have tried some epoxy.
I just checked my closet and found three of the old Zip drives ( I think these are precursor to the Jazz ) in a box of retired hardware. No disks, just the drives themselves.
Just about a year ago I did find and buy a USB version of a 3.5" floppy drive because I had a box of a couple hundred floppies I wanted to check out before I destroyed them. Most were the old software install discs, but a few were things I wanted to keep so moved to my NAS device. Progress is a good thing. Less for my kids to go through when I'm gone. The scary thing is that three of the four are techies in their 50's, so they may not get rid of things either.
Next to me is my slide scanner humming away digitizing 35mm slides. I gotten 652 slides scanned in a couple weeks ( 7 projector trays, for which we have no projector). Then what do I do with the originals? There are now just over 7850 files are on my NAS, at about 7mb each in .TIF hi-res scans.
Rick
Disaster Recovery = Backup ( Backup ( Your Backup ) )
February 25, 2025 at 4:50 pm
I'd rather talk about your point on disposable tech. It's not just tech. It is disgusting how disposable EVERYTHING is nowadays. How much plastic junk ends up in landfills? Especially with kids aged 14 through 4 months, I see it all the time. I get it is cheaper for everyone to just keep cranking out the newest gadgets and tossing the old ones, but don't we feel any guilt?
Be still, and know that I am God - Psalm 46:10
February 25, 2025 at 5:02 pm
Agreed, too much stuff is built not to last, or not to be repaired. I'm amazed how poorly some modern things are set up that it's not even possible to repair things.
It's not even digital stuff. Fridges, microwaves, lots of devices where it's assembled as cheaply and "hard coded" with plastic/metal components that can't get removed.
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