The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Intel Resumes Free Coffee, Tea To Boost Morale After Laying Off 15,000 Employees
Seriously? They previously took it away? What’s the median Intel employee salary? It would have to be at least 80K I would have thought. Taking it away in the first place is some petty ass bean counting from someone in management who is focused on all the wrong things.
Anyway, glad they made things right. “Here’s your no name tea bag and 15 grams of instant coffee we bought in bulk. Do you love us now?”
It’s kind of an important issue. When AT&T bought my previous employer, they took away our free coffee and people were pissed. Including me. I think that might be one of the most impactful cheap benefits for employees.
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I haven’t got a link anymore but I went looking for the story of when Intel took it away. One Israeli employee said it was embarrassing, which it really would be. “Place I work is too cheap or broke to supply coffee”.
Putting aside the negative impact of removing it, caffeine is like a legal performance enhancing drug. I’d be walking around offering refills.
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Cable management at the old CRS location…
It’s probably all run in a cloud now.
Shoot that’s exactly what Santo Domingo looks like. They wait for power outages and then tap off the electric lines into their homes. It’s absolutely chaos. It’s also amazing that the place hasn’t burned to the ground.
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Undoubtedly a big problem but banning it outright seems pretty heavy handed. It can’t all be negative and what defines “social media”. Personally for my own kid, I think I’d rather introduce him to it in a controlled way and monitor it when he’s a quite a few years younger than that when it wouldn’t feel so much like a gross intrusion on his privacy. Just setting them loose when they are 16 with no previous experience and no ability to control it seems like a backward step.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Undoubtedly a big problem but banning it outright seems pretty heavy handed. It can’t all be negative and what defines “social media”. Personally for my own kid, I think I’d rather introduce him to it in a controlled way and monitor it when he’s a quite a few years younger than that when it wouldn’t feel so much like a gross intrusion on his privacy. Just setting them loose when they are 16 with no previous experience and no ability to control it seems like a backward step.
now, replace social media with alcohol in the above and consider that the negative side effects of social media are far worse than alcohol ever was.
do we let minors drink?
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@madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Undoubtedly a big problem but banning it outright seems pretty heavy handed. It can’t all be negative and what defines “social media”. Personally for my own kid, I think I’d rather introduce him to it in a controlled way and monitor it when he’s a quite a few years younger than that when it wouldn’t feel so much like a gross intrusion on his privacy. Just setting them loose when they are 16 with no previous experience and no ability to control it seems like a backward step.
now, replace social media with alcohol in the above and consider that the negative side effects of social media are far worse than alcohol ever was.
do we let minors drink?
Most of us don’t, but the kids will try it anyway . . .
. . . and some will get hooked while young . . .
Like with many other things.
I don’t think social media kills as often as other “vices” we humans become addicted to do, but one can make an argument that some kids do die from doing stupid stuff or committing suicide linked to their experience with social media.
In some cultures . . . here I am thinking Italians and their wine . . . kids may be introduced to wine in a prepared environment by their parents.
This seems to be along the line that Hog described for social media.
My parents were 3 1/2 pack a day cigarette smokers. My mom died at 67 from lung cancer and my dad had a heart attack around 55 or so, and he immediately quit smoking and made it to 82. He likely could have lived longer had he not had some bad habits.
As kids, the four of us were told that we could smoke if we wanted to (we had plenty of secondary smoke) but we had to do it at home with our parents first.
None of the kids became smokers. We could not stand the smoke and the stink.
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We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
"Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
Alcohol, cigarettes, social media or licorice?
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
licorice
aka Satan’s candy
When will you let your boy try licorice?
Not the Finn stuff, that’s obviously adult only.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
licorice
aka Satan’s candy
When will you let your boy try licorice?
Not the Finn stuff, that’s obviously adult only.
He gets a smiley face on a board when he tries new food but I don’t think he’s ready for that one (plus I don’t know where to buy it). Maybe in a few years.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
What do you mean by “it” though? Any social media account? If that’s the case, I’d be curious to know how you were able to enforce that.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
What do you mean by “it” though? Any social media account? If that’s the case, I’d be curious to know how you were able to enforce that.
We have an app on her phone that shows us everything she does, anything she installs, and we can block any app she has that we don’t want. But we also had a lot of argumen…uh…conversations about it on a regular basis.
"Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
What do you mean by “it” though? Any social media account? If that’s the case, I’d be curious to know how you were able to enforce that.
We have an app on her phone that shows us everything she does, anything she installs, and we can block any app she has that we don’t want. But we also had a lot of argumen…uh…conversations about it on a regular basis.
George Orwell tried to warn kids about parents like you!
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
What do you mean by “it” though? Any social media account? If that’s the case, I’d be curious to know how you were able to enforce that.
We have an app on her phone that shows us everything she does, anything she installs, and we can block any app she has that we don’t want. But we also had a lot of argumen…uh…conversations about it on a regular basis.
Must be fun having to go through and manually delete all the dick pics dudes send to her.
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@Gustaf I’ve been using Google’s Family Link for as long as my boy has had a phone (a couple of years now). It’s excellent IMO. I particularly appreciate being able to set time limits on apps - so he can use his phone for X hours but only watch movies for Y hours. There’s a lot of educational stuff on his phone that I don’t have limits on aside from the overall screen time limit for all apps. I also use the downtime feature to disable every app for a few hours during the middle of the day. He’ll have a nap or play lego or whatever. If he’s really restless and we don’t feel like inventing something to do with him one or both of us will take him out for a while.
In addition to the above, I don’t have to worry about him visiting websites he shouldn’t and strangers contacting him .
To put Minecraft on his phone I had to also install Microsoft’s family app (I forget what it’s called) which, as near as I can tell does the same things but I haven’t played with it since it seems redundant for me.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
We didn’t let our daughter have it until jsut recently and she will be 18 in January. I am convinced it made her a better person.
What do you mean by “it” though? Any social media account? If that’s the case, I’d be curious to know how you were able to enforce that.
We have an app on her phone that shows us everything she does, anything she installs, and we can block any app she has that we don’t want. But we also had a lot of argumen…uh…conversations about it on a regular basis.
Do you monitor her web browser usage too?
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Yes it sends an alert whenever she goes to a new site and we have the option to block it if we want.
@Gators1 We actually did it because when she was in 8th grade she started talking to some high-school kid on Discord from Minecraft and it started getting a little out of hand. Nothing really bad happened but it might have been heading that way and I’m too delicate for prison.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Yes it sends an alert whenever she goes to a new site and we have the option to block it if we want.
@Gators1 We actually did it because when she was in 8th grade she started talking to some high-school kid on Discord from Minecraft and it started getting a little out of hand. Nothing really bad happened but it might have been heading that way and I’m too delicate for prison.
Freedomz!
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Its probably pretty hard for a parent to deal with all that crap nowadays. Not sure how I feel about that monitoring thing but I keep thinking about my own experiences and its not really relevant for today’s environment.
