The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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No, he runs the Kwik-E-Mart
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Engrish please
1992 instructions for digital display on PC case

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Reddit’s “r/technology” feed this morning:

FFS. I go to their tech feed to escape from every other post being about American politics.
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I’ve been getting ICE ads in my feed. Maybe I should join up!
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I’ve been getting ICE ads in my feed. Maybe I should join up!
Perfect for a yankee that’s used to that shit.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Reddit’s “r/technology” feed this morning:

FFS. I go to their tech feed to escape from every other post being about American politics.
Same shit with my Northern Virginia sub…it’s full of politics. I just want to know where the good restaurants are.
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I feel like I’d be playing that shit for all it’s worth.
“Yeah, so I made a break through on the new flux capacitor design but I’m not quite there yet. I can’t stop thinking about how you won’t let me give you anal.”
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Reddit’s “r/technology” feed this morning:

FFS. I go to their tech feed to escape from every other post being about American politics.
The Trump Show, on every channel and feed.
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Early internet, this usenet was always helpful before forums came around.
User groups and dial up

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I had to ask AI what a smart fridge even does beyond cooling your food. Aside from having a screen for photos and watching vids on the door (stuff you could just do on your ipad), it said smart fridges have:
- Interior cameras so you can check what’s inside while at the grocery store
- Inventory tracking and expiration date reminders
- Integration with your phone for shopping lists
- Temperature controls you can adjust remotely
I maybe adjust the temperature twice in the lifetime of the fridge so the last one sounds useless to me and, if it really was a smart fridge, shouldn’t it be able to do it itself? And the other shit sounds like it would be hella flaky and unreliable.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I had to ask AI what a smart fridge even does beyond cooling your food. Aside from having a screen for photos and watching vids on the door (stuff you could just do on your ipad), it said smart fridges have:
- Interior cameras so you can check what’s inside while at the grocery store
- Inventory tracking and expiration date reminders
- Integration with your phone for shopping lists
- Temperature controls you can adjust remotely
I maybe adjust the temperature twice in the lifetime of the fridge so the last one sounds useless to me and, if it really was a smart fridge, shouldn’t it be able to do it itself? And the other shit sounds like it would be hella flaky and unreliable.
Not to mention hackable and so stuff destroyed, lists monkeyed with, doxing what’s in your fridge etc.
They were pushing that crap at the computer show I went to in the era of Newton handhelds and DEC Alpha, first time I laid eyes on a Linux machine. Useless shit I didn’t want then or now.
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Ya had to be the Comdex or CES 1995. Sony DVD intro, a bunch of sad Apple nuts whaling on their Newtons, Allied General on display, Citrix in its original form- and Novell had the smart refrigerator display. Annnnnnyday now.
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
whaling
kudos
I gots vocabulary.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
whaling
kudos
I gots vocabulary.
I have an enormous dangling participle.
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@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
whaling
kudos
I gots vocabulary.
I have an enormous dangling participle.
Sexually aggressive grammar? Ew.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@oyaji said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
whaling
kudos
I gots vocabulary.
I have an enormous dangling participle.
Sexually aggressive grammar? Ew.
How can grammar be aggressive, or even sexual? You mind is in the gutter!
Besides, I said “dangling”, not “erect”! Do I need to post a screenshot?
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This could go in the China thread but I’m not convinced the non-Chinese smart-devices are all that much better:
tl;dw: Chinese manufacturer repeatedly remotely bricks a guy’s robo-vacuum because he keeps blocking the address it was sending its spyware data to.
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I needed wifi-enabled sockets (I have 3 lights which are actually grow lights for the plants in winter, and I want them to be on not only when someone’s in the room), and it was quite difficult to get ones that don’t just send everything to a cloud in China.

Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update
