Posted on 04/09/2025 1:34:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I cannot even get logged into my employer’s computer to do my job every day with my personal cell phone thanks to the @#$! two step authentication crap.
Well, I don’t wake up deliberately, but if I do wake up then I figure hey might as well check Free Republic.
Or, like on Seinfeld, right down my latest idea for a joke. Flaming globes of Sigmund was a recent one.
Yes but new technologies bring out new psychological patterns, including new addictions.
The cell phone is just our newest example of Marshall McLuhan’s ‘medium’ being the ‘message’; which, according to Wiki, he defines as ‘the change of scale or pace or pattern that a new invention or innovation introduces into human affairs.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
Write down, not right down. Stupid voice to text.
Same here. That's basically what I use my smart phone for. I make or take maybe two phone calls a week, and never look at the internet on my phone but take dozens of photos, mostly outdoor scenes. I find it very handy to always have a small camera in my pocket.
No.
Most likely.
That’s correct.
People cling to their electronic leashes like a junkie does to their stash. If it is out of reach for even a moment they get antsy.
Ask them to put it down for 15 minutes and they began to desperately watch the clock waiting for the time to be up.
Our brains have probably been re-wired with every technological advancement in human history. The accomplishments have not all been ‘bad’, nor has the rewiring been. But all of it definitely comes with effects that we need to be aware of and for which we sometimes need to compensate.
There are some interesting books written about this:
I, for one, have definitely seen a decrease in my ability to sit down with a print book and attend to it as I used to do.
I have to be aware of this and compensate for it all the time.
Can the PTB can still track your location ?
I can go on the local TV Weather App (WSOC Channel 9 Weather App) and zoom in and it shows where I/My iPhone are within a few feet in the house. That’s with the Allow App to use Location.
The PTB can track down to a foot and probably inches. Even if the Location is turned off.
Nope. Zero. Nadda. Nothing. You’re off the matrix.
I always assume that there’s no privacy at all, anymore; and
for now, we just have to accept that.
Everyone is trying to sell us stuff that promises to give us ‘privacy’.
Count me unconvinced.
“Even before that.”
Party on; the line....
Are the Amish accepting converts?
Recommendation?
Where did you buy it?
True, but the subject still might make a good wife and mom.
Hacking has become very sophisticated an fast. Two-factor authorization saves your butt more than you can imagine.
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