For us over 50 - Favourite Technology
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I love the way photos are handled. You take one on your phone, log on to the computer when you get home and there it is in front of you. How did that happen? Get an email from grandma, thanks for the pictures of the kids. WTF (daughter must have set it up to link somehow).
I used to do backups to floppy disks and CDs but now I have no idea where it all is. I've never paid a penny but have Dropbox, Prime and Google all fighting to store my photos by the look of it. Is that all secure? Thank F I'm not a celebrity with any compromising pictures, I'd never trust anything or anyone.
Mind you I still take pictures like the old days when you had 24 shots for the whole holiday on your roll of film and half of those had the head missing off. My daughters take 24 for each scene.
The latest from some provider is "On this day in 20XX" where it shows you on your phone, photos of what you were up to on the same day in previous years. Didn't ask for it but it's great seeing the kids when they were young and reminding you of the fun times. Only spoilt when it then shows a lovey dovey pic of me with the evil witch ex-wife. Aargh, get it off.
It has also sorted it all into albums of holidays. views, family, sport, sunsets etc by somehow interpreting the photos themselves. Feck me that's clever (and very accurate).
Some clever bods out there.
I used to do backups to floppy disks and CDs but now I have no idea where it all is. I've never paid a penny but have Dropbox, Prime and Google all fighting to store my photos by the look of it. Is that all secure? Thank F I'm not a celebrity with any compromising pictures, I'd never trust anything or anyone.
Mind you I still take pictures like the old days when you had 24 shots for the whole holiday on your roll of film and half of those had the head missing off. My daughters take 24 for each scene.
The latest from some provider is "On this day in 20XX" where it shows you on your phone, photos of what you were up to on the same day in previous years. Didn't ask for it but it's great seeing the kids when they were young and reminding you of the fun times. Only spoilt when it then shows a lovey dovey pic of me with the evil witch ex-wife. Aargh, get it off.
It has also sorted it all into albums of holidays. views, family, sport, sunsets etc by somehow interpreting the photos themselves. Feck me that's clever (and very accurate).
Some clever bods out there.
motco said:
I was horrified to receive a Google report on my activities in October - with map details! Sod that! My missus might see it! Location is now off unless I'm using it for navigation. Orwell didn't have a clue as to how invasive it would become.
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”AstonZagato said:
motco said:
I was horrified to receive a Google report on my activities in October - with map details! Sod that! My missus might see it! Location is now off unless I'm using it for navigation. Orwell didn't have a clue as to how invasive it would become.
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”As to the other post, just because location is off, your phone can most certainly still be tracking you.
Trophy Husband said:
Are you having a laugh? I don't know. I'm 51! All I know is that I can access my tunes offline but I haven't got a clue how that's possible! Where are they stored?
That sort of statement is worthy of a cliched statement along the lines of "you don't stop learning because you get old, you get old because you stop learning".My father is 79. He'd be able to tell you precisely how his phone stores data, as would the majority of my elderly relatives.
The notion that a 51yr old cannot comprehend the notion of storage of data to local memory for offline consumption is just utterly beyond belief, so I suspect that you're just pretending in the belief that it has some form of comedic effect?
Northbloke said:
I love the way photos are handled. You take one on your phone, log on to the computer when you get home and there it is in front of you. How did that happen? Get an email from grandma, thanks for the pictures of the kids. WTF (daughter must have set it up to link somehow).
I used to do backups to floppy disks and CDs but now I have no idea where it all is. I've never paid a penny but have Dropbox, Prime and Google all fighting to store my photos by the look of it. Is that all secure? Thank F I'm not a celebrity with any compromising pictures, I'd never trust anything or anyone.
Mind you I still take pictures like the old days when you had 24 shots for the whole holiday on your roll of film and half of those had the head missing off. My daughters take 24 for each scene.
The latest from some provider is "On this day in 20XX" where it shows you on your phone, photos of what you were up to on the same day in previous years. Didn't ask for it but it's great seeing the kids when they were young and reminding you of the fun times. Only spoilt when it then shows a lovey dovey pic of me with the evil witch ex-wife. Aargh, get it off.
It has also sorted it all into albums of holidays. views, family, sport, sunsets etc by somehow interpreting the photos themselves. Feck me that's clever (and very accurate).
Some clever bods out there.
I think it's all amazing, but the very first thing I do when I get a new phone or camera is figure out how to switch off any sort of automatic sharing! It all seems wonderful until the email from grandma is "why did you just send me a photo of your wife with no clothes on"? I used to do backups to floppy disks and CDs but now I have no idea where it all is. I've never paid a penny but have Dropbox, Prime and Google all fighting to store my photos by the look of it. Is that all secure? Thank F I'm not a celebrity with any compromising pictures, I'd never trust anything or anyone.
Mind you I still take pictures like the old days when you had 24 shots for the whole holiday on your roll of film and half of those had the head missing off. My daughters take 24 for each scene.
The latest from some provider is "On this day in 20XX" where it shows you on your phone, photos of what you were up to on the same day in previous years. Didn't ask for it but it's great seeing the kids when they were young and reminding you of the fun times. Only spoilt when it then shows a lovey dovey pic of me with the evil witch ex-wife. Aargh, get it off.
It has also sorted it all into albums of holidays. views, family, sport, sunsets etc by somehow interpreting the photos themselves. Feck me that's clever (and very accurate).
Some clever bods out there.
AstonZagato said:
motco said:
I was horrified to receive a Google report on my activities in October - with map details! Sod that! My missus might see it! Location is now off unless I'm using it for navigation. Orwell didn't have a clue as to how invasive it would become.
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
Trophy Husband said:
Are you having a laugh? I don't know. I'm 51! All I know is that I can access my tunes offline but I haven't got a clue how that's possible! Where are they stored?
But surely you realise your phone is just a small computer and it's just saved to the phones memory?. There are way more "unbelievable" things a phone can do. I have a back up hard drive at home (NAS). I can access that drive anywhere in the world on my phone (or any device for that matter).
I've been sat in a hotel in the USA, watching a movie on my phone, running from a hard drive in my living room.
j3gme said:
https://youtu.be/HeEWtNaW6KE
Watch this it’s about us lot brought up in the 70s and 80s technology..... to the tune of Billy Joel “I didn’t start the fire”... apologies to anyone has already seen it
Just watched that....Watch this it’s about us lot brought up in the 70s and 80s technology..... to the tune of Billy Joel “I didn’t start the fire”... apologies to anyone has already seen it
I ran a computer magazine in the 1980's and that video suddenly reminded me of the Konami Track and Field game.... I remember clearly that game coming out and playing it for hours in the office. It is very far from Red Dead Redemption 2.
https://youtu.be/ozcE8qzTdHo
Northbloke said:
It has also sorted it all into albums of holidays. views, family, sport, sunsets etc by somehow interpreting the photos themselves. Feck me that's clever (and very accurate).
Some clever bods out there.
Clever software isn’t always as clever as it thinks it is. I remember the first time I saw an option to see the ‘faces’ in my photos. Instead of friends & family, I was presented with thousands of blurry strangers from crowd scenes at the Olympic stadium. Some clever bods out there.
Same age as the OP so I qualify.
I love my gadgets; so have Alexa, Philips Hue lighting, electric curtains/blinds and a TV that drops down on a hidden lift so I can watch even bigger pictures on the 4K projector behind it. Harmony remote controls that tie (most) of the above stuff together are pretty good too, especially with most of my AV gear being outside the room. Setting up the macros for various 'events' like watching TV or that other marvel of the modern age; the hard disc recorder, or it's more recent substitute Netflix/Amazon prime (at least in our house anyway).
It does amaze me that I have bought a 32 track recorder that records to an SD card for less than the (inflation adjusted) price of a 4 track cassette multi-tracker I bought in the 1980s. I'll brush over that I typically play guitars and amps that are re-issues of the 1950/60s models though...
I don't think age needs to be a barrier to using modern technology though: My 80+ Mum will be editing and burning a DVD of a family get together we had recently and while we talk regularly on the phone, most of our communications are via text and email.
I love my gadgets; so have Alexa, Philips Hue lighting, electric curtains/blinds and a TV that drops down on a hidden lift so I can watch even bigger pictures on the 4K projector behind it. Harmony remote controls that tie (most) of the above stuff together are pretty good too, especially with most of my AV gear being outside the room. Setting up the macros for various 'events' like watching TV or that other marvel of the modern age; the hard disc recorder, or it's more recent substitute Netflix/Amazon prime (at least in our house anyway).
It does amaze me that I have bought a 32 track recorder that records to an SD card for less than the (inflation adjusted) price of a 4 track cassette multi-tracker I bought in the 1980s. I'll brush over that I typically play guitars and amps that are re-issues of the 1950/60s models though...
I don't think age needs to be a barrier to using modern technology though: My 80+ Mum will be editing and burning a DVD of a family get together we had recently and while we talk regularly on the phone, most of our communications are via text and email.
motco said:
Very good AZ. Albert had a word on tech too:
No, he didn't. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-technol...As Abraham Lincoln wisely said, 85% of the quotes on the internet are made up.
AstonZagato said:
motco said:
I was horrified to receive a Google report on my activities in October - with map details! Sod that! My missus might see it! Location is now off unless I'm using it for navigation. Orwell didn't have a clue as to how invasive it would become.
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”The yoof worry when Big Brother isn't watching them!!
How long until Minority Report?
deckster said:
motco said:
Very good AZ. Albert had a word on tech too:
No, he didn't. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/einstein-technol...As Abraham Lincoln wisely said, 85% of the quotes on the internet are made up.
AstonZagato said:
“What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching.”
Very good.For me it has to be the iPhone, cliché perhaps but I don't have much other 'tech' anyway, best is the UI - so intuitive. My Kindle I'll grudgingly award second place as I travel quite a lot, although for some reason I like to buy hard copies of the more 'substantial' books and likewise I still buy and use LPs, nowadays most of these come with a code to download the elastictrickery version as well, win-win. Bronze medal goes to my AlwaysHome dongles which allow me to access my home router from anywhere in the world thus bypassing geolocation blocks and network restrictions. 'Tis magic I tell thee.
Technology I really like:
Air passenger travel at twice the speed of sound.
Spacecraft that can land people on the moon.
Airships that can carry you on a luxury cruise to Australia by way of the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids and Mt. Everest.
I wonder if we will ever rebuild civilisation far enough to be able to do any of those things again?
Air passenger travel at twice the speed of sound.
Spacecraft that can land people on the moon.
Airships that can carry you on a luxury cruise to Australia by way of the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids and Mt. Everest.
I wonder if we will ever rebuild civilisation far enough to be able to do any of those things again?
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