Posted on 09/28/2021 5:16:25 AM PDT by Openurmind
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Y2K, the day nothing happened.......LOL!
Designed obsolescence.
Makes sense, a built in expiration date.
Hopefully Byedone’s expiration date is soon.
Fear Porn!
Y2K gave our corporations the all-powerful “Chief Technology Officer”.
A VERY-well paid on-line gamer.
This could be Project Odin and QFS.
The final demise of the Mockingbird satellites - good riddance.
Where I now live has a ‘smart’ thermostat. I made a point of learning the upstream wiring so that I can bypass it, if the Left starts getting cute (like cutting it off when the sun don’t shine, or raising the temperature setting).
Whether we like it or not, this will soon be a survival skill, so you might as well learn it, and help your kids learn it.
But even with those skills, eventually overriding of ‘commands from above’ will be outlawed and people will be screwed, unless they have backup power that they can slowly recharge, during times when the sun is shining.
OH NOES!!!!!!!!!
Seems to me to be a good thing. Those devices can no longer feed your personal information back to big tech. The further off the grid I am, the happier I am. However, that also means I have very few if any of these devices.
Turning off the wifi disables the thermostat completely?
Lol... I could care less about all of these devices except the MacBooks. Just hate to see a perfectly fine computer being rendered useless over something this ignorant...
I have a smart thermostat too, “Hey babe? would you throw another chunk of wood in the wood stove when you go by?”
We have two Android smartphones that we purchased new (as old-stock) in 2017, but the model's release was in 2014. The last updates by the wireless provider were in April 2017, and the phones are not capable of being upgraded past Android 6.0.1 (chip-set limitation). Thankfully, we don't use these phones for any important online accounts, but the occasional Internet search while out and about might be impacted. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
Y2K hysteria did exactly what it was intended to do, distract us from thinking about the 2000 anniversay of Christ, who is the cornerstone of Western Civilization.
Goody! another Y2K when nothing happened!
“smart thermostat”
The real problem is the smart meter. Your entire house will be throtteld so that those in charge can remain nice and comfy.
I was on a task force at my institution and worked for almost a year and a half on this Y2K issue...we tested our applications, and we had the major one for our institution that was a homegrown mainframe MUMPS application originally written in 1978 that was definitely going to have issues, and we were easily able to replicate the issues, it would have affected everything, billing, scheduling...everything.
If we hadn’t gone through all we did, it would have been catastrophic for us.
We had to do a lot of major work to remediate those issues, so...when the time came, nothing happened. I am sure that, to those who weren’t immersed in it outside of IT, it was a great big huge nothing-burger, but to me, I suffered greatly with analysis and testing for a long time.
Being in Healthcare, we had to be certain we had the bases covered on it.
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