How can...

[VirtualLarry]

....someone that can't figure out how to use a K-cup brewer, can't figure out a VCR, DVD player, PC, Windows Updates, etc., FUNCTION IN SOCIETY? WHERE DO THESE STUPID PEOPLE COME FROM? I SEE THEM EVERYWHERE.

Edit: It must be #Karen, WHERE'S THE MANAGER, I WANT TO SPEAK TO THE MANAGER, BECAUSE I'M TOO STUPID TO GO TO YOUR STORE'S WEB SITE AND LOOK UP PRODUCT PRICES AND AVAILABILITY MYSELF!

Thank God these non-technologically-inclined Boomers are going to die off soon. ( @BoomerD excepted, you know how to use a PC, otherwise you wouldn't even be on this forum.)

 

[nakedfrog]

Most people no longer need a VCR, DVD player, or a PC.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Most people no longer need a VCR, DVD player, or a PC.

So, you're saying that I'm the archaic one? Could be.

Edit: And possibly, the act of #Karen across the USA, calling for the manager, is actually a societal act of defiance against automation, and a means to ensure job security for their fellow Boomer managers?

 

[BoomerD]

Most people no longer need a VCR, DVD player, or a PC.

 

[shortylickens]

theres literally thousands of sci-fi novels that pontificate on what would happen if our lives became so easy we didnt even know what was going on around us. that we'd be dead meat if "The Grid" went down and nobody knew how to do anything for themselves.
it used to be fantasy. now I think those authors were sending us warnings.

 

[snoopy7548]

Most of these people are the types that do well in management positions - they're so stupid to figure anything out for themselves so they just have others do it for them.

 

[zinfamous]

there are people that have trouble adapting to technology that has only been around for no more than 40 years, and there are also people that can't understand and just flat deny 100+ years of well-understood natural, tested, confirmed processes like evolution, germ theory, climate change, etc...

 

[deadlyapp]

Aren't you a boomer @VirtualLarry or are you just not associating with the "non-techy" boomers

 

[Red Squirrel]

I used to work in IT and used to ask myself the same thing. I don't expect people to know the ins and outs of everything, but at very least the basic usage, like how to open the browser and go to a web page, or how to open a program, or how to do a shut down, or how to go through explorer to get to a file etc... some people are just clueless about that stuff and can't seem to grasp it. One thing a lot of people have trouble with is the basics of a file system. Like how to get to files, or how to transfer files etc. Those are also the same type of people who just hit save without even knowing where it's going, so they actually make the problem worse for themselves. "Where's my file?" "where did you save it?" "You're IT, you tell me!"

theres literally thousands of sci-fi novels that pontificate on what would happen if our lives became so easy we didnt even know what was going on around us. that we'd be dead meat if "The Grid" went down and nobody knew how to do anything for themselves.
it used to be fantasy. now I think those authors were sending us warnings.

It already kind of happens, just look when there is a snow storm in a place that normally does not get snow and people forget how to function and they shut down entire cities. Like that whole thing in Atlanta years ago. People actually DIED. Over SNOW! It's kind of messed up really. Or when there is a disaster somewhere and there is an immediate shortage of a certain good, like not even a shortage several weeks or months later, but like immediately. Is logistics really running on such thin contingency that there arn't any local stockpile warehouses of goods? (ex: fuel) Society is just built too fragile it seems and too reliant on the system.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Most of these people are the types that do well in management positions - they're so stupid to figure anything out for themselves so they just have others do it for them.

Lol so true. I worked for a manager like that actually. When he was younger he used to work for IBM, and at another point Canada Post. This would probably be in like the Univac mainframe days. He always spoke highly of those positions and himself. But now, he has next to no technical knowledge about current tech. He literally asked us once to "make it go faster" while we were live migrating VMs to a new SAN. "Back when I worked at Canada Post, we just did copy star dot star and put it on a tape and walk it over, it's not that hard! It should only take 5 minutes! It's been over half an hour you are all incompetent." Yeah, we're dealing with TBs of data, you dealt with KB of data. But if you actually tried to explain that to him he would just tell you to quit it with the jargon because it's not important.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Lol so true. I worked for a manager like that actually. When he was younger he used to work for IBM, and at another point Canada Post. This would probably be in like the Univac mainframe days. He always spoke highly of those positions and himself. But now, he has next to no technical knowledge about current tech. He literally asked us once to "make it go faster" while we were live migrating VMs to a new SAN. "Back when I worked at Canada Post, we just did copy star dot star and put it on a tape and walk it over, it's not that hard! It should only take 5 minutes! It's been over half an hour you are all incompetent." Yeah, we're dealing with TBs of data, you dealt with KB of data. But if you actually tried to explain that to him he would just tell you to quit it with the jargon because it's not important.

Just tell him you can make it faster by moving everything to an all-flash SAN.

 

[lxskllr]

My boss likes to tell me how easy everything is. He's half joking when he says it. If he were serious, I'd refuse to do a single thing more til he showed me the correct way it should be done, cause I'm obviously doing it wrong. The company would shut down if I quit doing what I do, cause I'm the only one that knows how :^D

 

[Eno Safirey]

When AnandTech goes down for maintenance there is usually someone on these forums expressing concern that their world is being rocked. Just imagine the state of the world if the power was shut off for an extended period. We would see people that are technically savvy turn into helpless savages without cell phones or internet access.

 

[Red Squirrel]

When AnandTech goes down for maintenance there is usually someone on these forums expressing concern that their world is being rocked. Just imagine the state of the world if the power was shut off for an extended period. We would see people that are technically savvy turn into helpless savages without cell phones or internet access.

I'm good as far as power goes.




Well, for 3 months of the year anyway...



I need to look at making those vertical.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm good as far as power goes.




Well, for 3 months of the year anyway...



I need to look at making those vertical.

lol fail.

 

[BoomerD]

I'm good as far as power goes.




Well, for 3 months of the year anyway...



I need to look at making those vertical.

You know you're not supposed to let those solar panels freeze...the sunlight trapped inside them is the only thing stopping global warming!

 

[lxskllr]

I don't need power. I have enough lamp oil and candles to last a year, and can cook on the woodstove. I'm in easy walking distance to water on someone else's property, but not terribly far from waters of the US, I can freely access. The more fucked up things get, the better off I'll be. I don't need anything from anyone.

 

[clamum]

I'm good as far as power goes.




Well, for 3 months of the year anyway...



I need to look at making those vertical.

Are those panels enough to power your home? Or just a few main appliances, like fridge and a couple more things? I'm like totally solar power ignorant but interested in it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Are those panels enough to power your home? Or just a few main appliances, like fridge and a couple more things? I'm like totally solar power ignorant but interested in it.

It's only 400w so really it would be enough for the bare necessities but with the right inverter I could probably run bigger loads for a short time like the furnace a little bit to at least keep the house above freezing. In winter for food I would just put it in containers outside, or make ice outside and bring it in the fridge/freezer. In summer I would be generating like 10x the power as the days are long and the sun is actually out (in winter I'm generating maybe 25w as it's overcast all the time), so I could easily run the fridge and freezer off that. Biggest issue is the startup load though so need a really good inverter.

This is all stuff I want to setup eventually, but I need to figure out how to deal with freezing rain. Snow is not the issue, I have a broom on a long pole for that, but minute we get freezing rain it creates a crust like the 2nd pic and the broom just slides right off that.

I have a few ideas in mind, could change the tilt and hope it helps, if not could put heating pads of sorts under them. Do 1 panel at a time until I have enough power to do all 4. It would probably take about a week to do though but if I'm really stuck I could probably go up there with a ladder and try to scrape them down.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Aren't you a boomer @VirtualLarry or are you just not associating with the "non-techy" boomers

No, I'm GenX, going on Millenial, with a touch of Boomer-ism.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Those are also the same type of people who just hit save without even knowing where it's going, so they actually make the problem worse for themselves. "Where's my file?" "where did you save it?" "You're IT, you tell me!"

A CLASSIC user scenario! Love it!

 

[ch33zw1z]

Are those panels enough to power your home? Or just a few main appliances, like fridge and a couple more things? I'm like totally solar power ignorant but interested in it.

Just enough to run the modem and router, pr0n is that important

 

[IronWing]

I don't have patience for people pulling age as an excuse for not understanding the systems they are using.
Who designed/built mainframes? Pre-boomers
PCs? Boomers and pre-boomers
Cell phones and tablets? Boomers and Gen-X

If you could learn to use a DOS box and edit the sys.ini file you sure as heck can learn to click the lollipop shaped icon that launches the missiles.

 

[aigomorla]

If you could learn to use a DOS box and edit the sys.ini

i think you mean autoexec.bat + config.sys and how you had to edit that manually, and if you goof'd you had to do all the lines all over again..

oh crap... did i just reveal how old i am...

 

[sdifox]

i think you mean autoexec.bat + config.sys and how you had to edit that manually, and if you goof'd you had to do all the lines all over again..

oh crap... did i just reveal how old i am...

At least you didn't talk about vi edit