My wife and I make a point of spending time each night talking to each other about our days, and playing with our kids with our phones not in use. We need not be slaves to our technology.
But Slashdot IS A TECH site. I would EXPECT that those that post here would use their tech a fair bit...
I can see how this may add to a Sabbath day of rest.
My candy crushed fingers need a rest to allow the blisters to stop bleeding. My feet need a break from all the Pokemon hunting, and my Facebook friends need to think I died for a day, and was resurrected the following morning.
Oh, and BTW. We did not proceed to "expand" our family"... our TWINS were *thankfully* still asleep despite the fact their sound maker and lullabies were silenced by the lack of power.
There was a 20 minute power outage at my house last week. We had the cable modem and router on UPS. My wife (yes, I said wife!), was still on Face Book.
We did break away to look out the window at the dark neighborhood. All the streetlights out. It's not often we see that.
We have a family cabin with no electricity and no cell coverage. When we would spend a day or two there, we were cut off from all tech. It was propane lamps, outhouse, and a cooking fire / propane stove. Yeah, I had no shower, and was covered in bug spray, but it was FREEDOM.
It did feel good to be fully engaged in activities that were all non-tech. To see nature. To talk without distractions. We did not use our phones in any offline mode BTW, we just turned them off. So fun to hear the river, swat the bugs (OK maybe not that), and feel like I was back in time.
It felt both weird and comforting to see the signal bars reappear on my phone on the drive back to the city.
iPhone users do have the option to ignore Apple Music and use other streaming music services such as Spotify, but I do recognize they can't put their own music files on the phone like Android allows.
As an iPhone 6 user turned to Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, I'm not looking back. But Apple users do have *some choices.
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Sounds like you may want to have "scheduled" unexpected flips of the main house electrical breakers. :)
I thought that we were the normal ones?
If you and your wife are giving birth to batteries you may be on the wrong planet
Or in the Matrix?
... and his last post on /. was forever remembered..
What???
No non-stop all-night gaming sessions!?
And you come here and post! How dare you!!
Be gone with you! Or repent of your ways and live up to the reputation expected of you! :)
That's cool!
I hope said batteries are not of the explosive persuasion... ;)
Please tell me you are joking!
My wife and I make a point of spending time each night talking to each other about our days, and playing with our kids with our phones not in use. We need not be slaves to our technology.
But Slashdot IS A TECH site. I would EXPECT that those that post here would use their tech a fair bit...
I can see how this may add to a Sabbath day of rest.
My candy crushed fingers need a rest to allow the blisters to stop bleeding. My feet need a break from all the Pokemon hunting, and my Facebook friends need to think I died for a day, and was resurrected the following morning.
Oh, and BTW. We did not proceed to "expand" our family"... our TWINS were *thankfully* still asleep despite the fact their sound maker and lullabies were silenced by the lack of power.
There was a 20 minute power outage at my house last week. We had the cable modem and router on UPS. My wife (yes, I said wife!), was still on Face Book.
We did break away to look out the window at the dark neighborhood. All the streetlights out. It's not often we see that.
We have a family cabin with no electricity and no cell coverage. When we would spend a day or two there, we were cut off from all tech. It was propane lamps, outhouse, and a cooking fire / propane stove. Yeah, I had no shower, and was covered in bug spray, but it was FREEDOM.
It did feel good to be fully engaged in activities that were all non-tech. To see nature. To talk without distractions. We did not use our phones in any offline mode BTW, we just turned them off. So fun to hear the river, swat the bugs (OK maybe not that), and feel like I was back in time.
It felt both weird and comforting to see the signal bars reappear on my phone on the drive back to the city.
iPhone users do have the option to ignore Apple Music and use other streaming music services such as Spotify, but I do recognize they can't put their own music files on the phone like Android allows.
As an iPhone 6 user turned to Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, I'm not looking back. But Apple users do have *some choices.
640k ought to be enough for anybody to back up the Internet.
I have a simple fix:
Tell the workers that whoever gets their TPS reports in first gets "First Post".
But of course...
If the NSA can't OWN the Internet. It will do the next best thing, and throw a tantrum and shut it off.
"If we can't have it.. nobody can!"
Once China's great firewall is updated to RedOS 2.0. They can turn off the "Internet" and keep the good times rolling behind their borders...
All I have is Mountain Dew and pizza.
I guess warm pizza would be OK...
Wasn't he that really tall French dude who helped America win the Civil War?
What is real life Like?
I'm to scared to go upstairs or turn off my phone.
"What's this big red cable do? Let me just adjust the cable so I can walk by the rac "
Work place productivity would skyrocket... ... Until the Internet withdrawal symptoms kick in.
But if they know that we know that they know, we knew...who are they again?
As long as my Badger Badger Badger Mushroom song keeps playing... I be happy.
"Probing" you say?
I'd say it's them dern aliens! Back in '67 I was driving in my good old '57 Chevy when I saw a bright light above me...
Never could sit on the Jon the same way after that.
"All your Internet Bases are belong to us!"