i thought they were just for the companies to spy, or 'collect user data'

Totally bothered me when I found out the Roomba makes a map of the house and sends it over the internet.

What will they do if /when it gets banned in the US? I saw a news story where a tik tok influencer was wondering how they were going to make a living now. Hard to feel sorry for someone without a backup plan.

My phone is so old it can't scan them. :)

The Senior complex I live in is smart enough to know that fancy locks and seniors do not mix,so we all have "old-fashioned" keys.

Never tried AI to write anything, but hated predictive text (particularly when talking about medical stuff re work - some of the goof ups it caused!) I make sure it's disabled on any device I use.

I consider a laptop to be a tiny screen. I use a 21.5" iMac.

I'm 72 years old. I, too, refuse to use this technology. Silly, and just asking for frustration when it doesn't work. Also not very secure.

After Suckerbergs "fact checking is censorship" announcement (it is not you moron), yeah. Hope he suffocates with his head up Tr*mp's a**.

I do not use the cloud. My stuff is mine. I use a thumb drive to move stuff between my desktop and my laptop.

Doordash is the worst. At my local Wendy's, a "Biggie Bag" is $6 (and you can choose their "saucy nuggets" at no extra charge). On Doordash, the biggie Bag is $8.75 plus a $1.25 "upcharge" for the saucy nuggets. Plus the service fee and tip. That $6 meal ends up costing $15

My older sister bought a pack of 500 QR codes, for her and her kids to prank people. If you scan one you get rickrolled! They've stuck them all over Scotland on everything from buses, trains and ferries to random posters, shop windows etc. It's so wholesome watching their joy when they imagine people's reactions, they just want to make people smile!

When we perfect it, the massive drop in injuries and fatalities won't seem stupid.

I do and I can also put the lights on when I'm out and if I need to the tv as well. Average time for a professional house thief is 4 minutes most do not care about the alarm. I would rather it look like someone is home.

I would rather they find a solution for natural stupidity than work on artificial intelligence. If you look at a lot of professional (work related) correspondence, and some subject/comment matter online, composition and structure are starting to fade away, to join spelling as a lost art.

LMAO, no it wasn't. It never was lol!!!

I like printed books. However, as I get older and older, electronic text is much easier to read. I can easily increase text size, etc.

I used to feel that way until I got a Kindle. One of the best inventions ever!! I have hundreds of books in one place. If I decide I don't feel like continuing with one book I switch to another instantly. Also, as someone with arthritis in my hands it's SO much easier than turning pages.

I love paper books, but Kindle takes up little space in my bag, is very light and I can carry a great number of books w me. Also, e-books are a lot easier to store and find in a HD than real book that become a problem to store and take care of over time.

I like all forms of story media. Books for home, audiobooks for the car, Kindle for travel.

Yeah....i had a massive book collection once upon a time. Several thousand, mostly paperback but a couple hundred some hardcover and they took up an immense amount of space when there were very few things that i would ever read a second time. When i moved to Europe, couldn't really bring the collection along, donated them to the local library. Now....i have 250 gigabytes worth of Ebooks, comics (and audiobooks) stored within an 80mm M.2 drive. I can access all of them from my phone, or tablet at anytime, from anywhere....and i don't have to being complicit in the clear cutting of forests, to build up another physical collection on the logic that i miss that book smell.

I used to travel constantly for work. I would pack 4-5 paperback books for the evenings or flights. My wife bought me a Nook (Barnes & Noble), and the amount of weight I've saved is incredible. Now I can carry hundreds of books for long flights!

It depends on the book. I have a copy of David Crystal's Penguin Concise Encyclopedia and other reference materials on my phone. And I mean ON my phone, as PDF files, not via internet access. It's useful to be able to look up things instantly.

I have had 3 wrist surgeries, so reading on my laptop is much less uncomfortable/painful. It is also nice to carry 300+ books in one hand

I have hundreds of books on my iPad all digitally highlighted with my notes that I can go back to any time. I'll never go back to analog reading books like a muggle. I can crunch through my digital books faster and can read at night without a light (and without buying a book light.) And when the time comes and my eyes get worse, I can increase the font size (or buy the audiobook.)

I love digital books..........they don't take up space and no one has to find a home for them when I die

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This post should be retitled, ways in which I’m superior to you for not embracing technology. Everyone seems so proud of their selves for not adapting to change.

I've defaulted to audio books. Because now I can 'read' wherever, whenever. Taking a shower? I have a waterproof loudspeaker in there. Commuting to work by car? You bet my mind will be half in Narnia. Doing boring chores? At least I can travel Middle Earth while doing so.

Yes! I hate reading on a screen, I need the feel of paper in my hands. The only thing better than the smell of a new book is the smell of an old book. I love being able to lose myself in a book

I don't mind kindle, and read books on my phone/tablet regularly. The one gripe I have about ebooks is that you can't loan/resell them. I hate that I can't lend a friend a book anymore. However, I emailed one of my favourite authors a few years back (I was having difficulty locating his books in physical form) and asked which made him more money - ebooks or physical. When he said he made more money per ebook it made the decision to switch easy. I'd rather see authors I read getting more money.

my mom was like this, rather a real book than anything. Now she is turning 97 and can no longer hold a book. But still won't try to read a book on a computer

The faint smell of lead poisoning is pretty appealing to people who love reading books

Printed books all the way for me.

It just hurts my eyes. I'm on screens enough during the day.

reading paper books somehow is easier than reading it on a screen. not sure why

I have a falling down disease (Meniers) the Apple Watch is a god send for me.

This! No fruit based technology for me, thank you very much 😤😤

Had a job that was giving away fitness trackers. To use it, you had to use the app from the health insurance. No thanks.

There is no private data on my phone; no banking or financial or shopping aps. I think you are just asking for trouble.

I just want to see you menu. Not install an app, sign up for an account and pretend am going to order takeout just to see if you have something other than burgers.

I'll never choose to go to one operated by a human if I have a self-checkout option.

In Canada we don't have cash apps. We use debit cards that take the money right out of our bank account (not using credit) and we have E-Transfer where you send money directly from your bank account to someone else's, but you do that on your bank account site. I'm not aware of doing that with a phone.

I had Ring and Blink but it was less the cloud and more the subscription that put me off. Swapped everything to Reolink with NAS storage

One technology that is proving unpopular is a toilet that livestreams.

Pod coffee = giant landfills

As someone who lives remotely in the mountains, Amazon is a lifesaver. But I do agree that finding good/non-fake items there is challenging now.

I use these, as often there is no one at the register for endless moments,

When I had one in my pervious home, I always ran out of dishes before I had a full load, or I had to wash something that was sitting in the dishwasher because it was the only one I had. It's only me now, and it's not a big deal to wash the few dishes I have.

I want to use these just to fly and fly and fly.

I mean.. It's 100% marketed and used by young people so this isn't very shocking

I'm old, and I have one. It's great for blowing the grass off my lawn mower. Try doing that with a broom.

Such an aggressively gross post. This is why there are so many shootings in the states.

I'm hard of hearing, so bluetooth headphones stop my wife from telling me to turn down the tv.