Not April fools.
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@chu you don't understand. You say "don't order online". But there are literally *a lot* of small indie store that have an online presence. You are saying to no patronize them with 1).
These small businesses can't accommodate you by email? Are there truly small then?
The point isn't perfection. It's too reduce and do a check of how much of our lives we ceded control of.
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
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@tizziari @chu Yes, indeed, but remember that ‘these people’ is a dehumanizing term. https://stlholocaustmuseum.org/3-ways-to-confront-dehumanizing-language/
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Not April fools.
Here's a screw a tech bro for a week challenge
1) don't make online purchases. Walk into a store or call /email a small business owner.
2) no using any food delivery apps, call a local restaurant and pick it up. The tech companies take a huge cut and you'd be doing the local small biz a huge favour by doing this.
3) no using Uber or Lyft. Call a cab if you need it
4) don't use AI tools. If your employer threatens your job, give them the slop they deserve, but nothing outside of that.
5) add in the comments anything else you think of.
I honestly wonder how painful this list is for many people. Is a week doable or have they fundamentally taken control of us so hard we already lost our old systems of living?
@chu this is not painful at all - other than an occasional online purchase because I can't find some things locally, I practice everything on your list. But, I also know it's a privilege to not need any of them.
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@chu this is not painful at all - other than an occasional online purchase because I can't find some things locally, I practice everything on your list. But, I also know it's a privilege to not need any of them.
I buy things online about a half dozen times a year.
One is by necessity Amazon sadly. They have a product I haven't found elsewhere so I normally do one purchase at the start of the school year.
The point of this though is to examine our lives and our systems and look at how much we can or can't divorce from the tech bros. How much power do they really have over us. Sadly, I think it's more than a lot of us realize.
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I buy things online about a half dozen times a year.
One is by necessity Amazon sadly. They have a product I haven't found elsewhere so I normally do one purchase at the start of the school year.
The point of this though is to examine our lives and our systems and look at how much we can or can't divorce from the tech bros. How much power do they really have over us. Sadly, I think it's more than a lot of us realize.
@chu absolutely agree - partially because we have few good choices left after the decimation caused by covid and partially because they're insidious.
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@johnhenrythe3rd @chu do you supply the difference in price?
@LeoBistmans @chu It was a few pounds more expensive to buy it locally. But in my opinion that's a price worth paying to keep local shops alive.
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Yes, after opening this link, scroll and just click on the link according to the appropriate area and a list will appear
https://www.tvchannellists.com/w/List_of_Canadian_over-the-air_television_stations
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Yes, after opening this link, scroll and just click on the link according to the appropriate area and a list will appear
https://www.tvchannellists.com/w/List_of_Canadian_over-the-air_television_stations
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Is there some sort of "adapter" for older models?( I don't have a tv, I'm just letting my mind roam into curious places)
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Edwin mentioned in order to pull in the signal, the tv had to be 18 or younger, but now that I think about it, I guess even if there was an "adapter" of sorts the tv wouldn't work.
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@SnowyCA @deborahh @chu The answer is yes, they do exist.
They are called “ATSC Converter boxes” or digital-to-analog converter boxes.
Almost every channel I know of ran an advert when did the analog (NTSC) to digital (ATSC) conversion in 2011, and mentioned them
Here’s a sample of those adverts for your viewing enjoyment:
https://youtu.be/NoM4rxNT2RI?t=139P.S.: I said 18 years because I’m sure those TV support digital signals, older LCDs might as well… I just don’t know.
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@SnowyCA @deborahh @chu The answer is yes, they do exist.
They are called “ATSC Converter boxes” or digital-to-analog converter boxes.
Almost every channel I know of ran an advert when did the analog (NTSC) to digital (ATSC) conversion in 2011, and mentioned them
Here’s a sample of those adverts for your viewing enjoyment:
https://youtu.be/NoM4rxNT2RI?t=139P.S.: I said 18 years because I’m sure those TV support digital signals, older LCDs might as well… I just don’t know.
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I love the geeky conversation my random "on the way to campus" thoughts sparked.
️. Amazon Prime is an example.
