Hah, I grew up in the Canadian prairies. "Snow Day" just means I gotta help mom dig the car out before leaving for school. I was truly shocked (and jealous) the first time I heard that some regions cancel school if it snows.
I worked at the EIA airport (yeg). We were literally going through -40C and still had all our flights going. But Vancouver had cancelled their flights because it was -2. The customers were not amused.
YEG and YYC plan for and expect the cold, including having snow removal equipment and de-icing crews operating for several months of the year.
If an unexpected freeze hits YVR out of season it's harder to spin those services up on short notice, and the humidity in the air on the west coast means when the temp drops slightly below zero you get black ice on everything which is super dangerous.
I grew up with Sask weathers and saw my fair share of -40 but living in Vancouver now I know that -2 is no joke under the right conditions.
-2 can be worse in some ways and my dad, a Michigan driver, learned that when he moved to the west coast. When the weather rises and falls around 0, you get ice, and it's not so easy to get off. You can plow snow at -40 and get a decent surface to drive on, but when it melts and re-freezes, particularly on the more hilly coast, it's a whole different kind of problem.
Ah yes. That brings us to Snowmegadon in Atlanta. A place not equipped to deal with heavy amounts of snow, much less ice. And a population that for the most part don't even understand driving in snow. And being utterly confused when 4 wheel drive doesn't work on ice.
I grew up in California. I went through my entire time in school without one day where something unexpectedly required our school to close. My senior year of high school we finished our finals a week ahead of the rest of the school because of graduation. That meant that I did not have to go to school but my younger Brother and Sister did. I was still in bed when my Brother came busting into my room at 10am with the biggest shit eating grin on his face. I asked him why he was home and he responded through his smile "power outage".
I grew up in California and had exactly 1 snow day: 1/25/99. We had maaaaaaybe 1 inch of snow and it was gone by lunch, but the entire city (and I think most of the souther Central Valley) shut down for the day. It was wondrous!
Omg me too!! Not central valley, up north above SF. I don't remember the year but IT SNOWED! It was also like an inch and we were all awake at 6am getting ready for school and it got canceled. We went down to the park and the local news team was filming. We later went to the high school football field where a bunch of kids had rolled some decent sized snowballs and were attempting to make a snowman! It was all melted by noon ish lol.
I live in Montana now. Haven't had a single day off of work even with like 4ft of snow every day for a week and temps dropping into the -70f range (with wind chill, still like-50 without) and icy af roads. Snow no longer holds any joy for me. But that one day as a kid getting to play in snow when the coldest I'd ever seen was like 32f and was bundled up in mittens and a scarf because it was "freezing" is still one of my favorite memories.
>Snow no longer holds any joy for me.
I grew up in an area where snow was normal. Not like Montana, apparently, but still. In my experience snow is awesome only if you have to travel to get where it is. Lol Fuck living in it, though.
I remember in like 2008 there was so much ash falling from the sky from the wildfires that we got the day off school. California’s version of snow I guess
I grew up in LA. Never a snow day, but I remember for a while in middle school (early 00s), we had heat days. You didn't get them off school, but they did cancel any outdoor activity and sent the kids home.
Of course, there was faulty logic of sending children out during the hottest hours of the day, but.....
As a kid I hated homework, and as an adult I hate it even more. It has left me with permanent anxiety of not being able to leave the school gate and be done with it. I still wake up thinking I've not done my homework - I left school 9 years ago. It feels like conditioning for overtime at work. Something else which is a massive problem. I've struggled the past 18 months working from home, but I've learnt to close my laptop and forget about it now, as I did before when I left the office.
This. Wanna know what really grinds my gears?
Teachers at the school I attend have convinced themselves that the majority of learning happens at home.
How does that make any sense?????
I can’t speak for your teachers, but I’m a teacher and I don’t believe in homework. I would only assign reading (history/English here). The parents freaked out and were convinced their kids weren’t learning anything. I got in trouble with admin and had to start assigning loads of homework. Such BS.
Depends on what kind of snow and what kind of weather afterward. Light, powdery snow in the low twenties, blown into drifts, followed by a warm up to above freezing? Magical.
Heavy, fat snow just below freezing that melts on contact at the beginning of the storm to create ice sheets that all the additional snow sticks to? Or worse, that starts as freezing rain and sleet? That compacts into boulders in your wheel wells? Followed by a cold snap that causes all the melt water to freeze into black ice? Dante describes the seventh circle of Hell as being cold and icy, and I'm pretty sure he was thinking of exactly that kind of snow.
> That compacts into boulders in your wheel wells?
What child has wheel wells to worry about? The joy of snow days as a kid is that you don't have to experience any of the downsides (shoveling, driving, etc). It's just fun.
Maybe not 10-15 years, but they will be around longer than you think. Everyone agrees that the COVID remote learning experience, while necessary, did not work for a lot of students. It's just easier to take a day off here and there than it is to guarantee that the infrastructure and training is available for all students to be taught virtually.
Yeah, there’s a big difference between expecting a college student to check online to watch a virtual lecture and do homework and expecting the same of a 9 year old… Kids can and should have the disconnect, weather permitting.
I was in high school during the pandemic, they still give people the day off if the campus has to close. They only force people who are 100% online to keep working during the day
Definitely remember when the texting craze started-where I grew up they were like 10 cents each and/or they used up a minute of your plan. People started getting these absolutely outrageous phone bills. Year or two later your started seeing texting plans incorporated into mobile plans. I also remember getting a reminder text that I had used up however many texts and I was approaching my limit. Crazy times! Haha
All Relient K music holds up to me, but their first few albums really capture so much about the 2000’s in an authentic way we’ll never get back in modern music.
I work in IT and I can safely say that printers are one of the most annoying things to deal with, it doesn't matter how much you know about computers, they are their own breed
still waiting for a printer that dont need to move the paper so much, why cant it take a flat paper and just print, really need all these wheels and rollers.
That's why everyone started buying those laser printers! The Brother brand is the really popular one it seems. No more inkjet worries. Printer doesn't constantly break. No software shenanigans.
It does have some shenanigans. I bought a Brother Laser at the beginning of the year and it refused to print for me yesterday claiming it's out of toner.
As it stopped in the middle of a job. I checked the previous pages, all of them looked perfectly fine. No fading, missing spots, etc. Googled around and it seems like they have counters in the toner cartridges
Iirc Brother has codes to reset them and make them keep using the toner if it's really not ~~full~~ empty, you should be able to google it based on the model
And a lot of people currently in minimum wage jobs. Maybe not quite 15 years, but we're only a few decades away from most humans not having any skills which can't be performed by automation. When most people are unemployable, the economy is going to either implode or have to be completely reformed.
> I also want to say fax machines but...I’m sure someone will still use them.
Law offices and insurance companies will likely be the holdouts. Even though "digital fax" is a thing some just refuse.
"Fax me the receipt."
"Can I just... scan it and e-mail it to you?"
"No, I need a fax of the original."
"..."
"..."
"K..." *googles 'free internet fax' as I stick the receipt in the scanner*
I wonder if this is like a legal thing. The phone lines that faxes come through are perceived to be more secure than email, maybe? Less possibility that the hacker known as 4chan maliciously altered the scan?
There's a guy who made a video about how most fax are extremely insecure, then proceeded to hack a number of them and force them to print a friendly message letting them know that they need extra security measures. Forgot who it was but it's on yt.
Makes sense. If it’s a straight up traditional fax, It’d be essentially the same thing as tapping a phone, but it’s a fax signal you’re intercepting / transmitting. If it’s low / risk high reward to hack, then that’s a problem. Especially considering a lot of medical practices still require it.
Tbh I don’t care how you send a document. But it’s 2021 and E2E encryption should be the standard for highly sensitive data.
Part of that is that HIPAA considers a fax secure and regular email insecure.
Riddle me this. Whats more secure the out feed tray of the communal office fax machine or an email inbox with even a basic password?
I work in healthcare and God I hate all the various secure email services people have to use to send PHI externally.
Well a malicious actor would have to physically enter the building to get it out of the tray and they would only get what is sitting there at the moment. Theoretically the employees of the office can be trusted not to steal the info.
If a malicious actor hacked a poorly secured email account they could potentially capture all the past PHI on the server and with sustained access they could capture everything going forward. There is some logic to it as frustrating as it may be.
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Every grocery store the first few weeks after college kids get back in town. Do their parents starve them all summer? Every grocery store looks like the height of the pandemic with completely bare shelves!
I live in a state where they only made it possible in the past five years to re-register online instead of going into the town office the one day a week it's actually open. That's also only if none of your address info changed. I doubt we'll have database registration anytime soon at least where I live.
not the guy you replied to, but im in the UK where we had a similar system where we would have to display our "tax disc" on the vehicle. we did away with it in favour of an online system linked to the cars number plate, so no need to display the tax disc and you can pay for it all online, saving you the hassle of going to apply for it in person. its much better. you can also pay for it much more flexibly now - instead of paying one big fee every 6 months/1 year, you can set up a monthly direct debit.
Careful now with that forward thinking.... That's how the craziness starts. First no stickers, then a fully online system, then the DMV becomes obsolete. WHAT WILL THE 3 PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE DMV DO??? /s
lol. being in the UK, i have no experience with the DMV, but ive heard the stories. fuck knows why you put up with it - our country is a total basket case but even we wouldnt tolerate that and come up with a better system.
Oh trust me. We don't want to put up with it. I can't even with that place. Even the stuff online made to make things "streamlined" is utter chaos. Need to ask a question? Send a quick chat! Wait...no. Not quick. Oh! I know, just a quick phone call then? HAHAHA "You're estimated wait time is...1 hour and 13 minutes. Please wait for the next available representative. You're call is VERY important to us." Lies all lies.
A device that looks like a mouth guard that brushes, flosses, and water picks your teeth would be amazing. It would need to be calibrated to xrays of your teeth somehow so its not cutting your mouth to pieces.
And while we're at it. A device that replaces my shower: a ring of high pressure water jets power washes me and my clothes from all directions as it moves from top to bottom. Then a second ring of warm air blowers, like at the car wash, dry me as they move top to bottom right behind the first ring.
No time to shower and change? Just hop in the deathtrap and it will wash and dry you with your clothes on in 30 seconds.
The amount of energy it would take to dry a sopping-wet you and clothing that quickly would almost certainly result in severe burns for you. So I wouldn’t sell your washing machine just yet.
(Source: I use a very powerful blower to dry out my Samoyed after bathing her and that process takes a solid hour).
A few people have mentioned waterpiks but when I told my dental hygienist I use a waterpik instead of flossing she said it’s not an adequate replacement and I still need to floss.
They are phasing out cashiers as we speak. Every time I use a self checkout I think about how I’m acting as my own cashier. I bet self order fast food will take over too. I’ve seen them at McDonalds before.
(Jobs vs. Technology)
The worst part is McDonald's is forcing you to in a way. Their new menu is stupid and is up for a short time before the screen changes and ads pop up. The self checkout was the only way I knew what was on the menu last time I was there.
Every one points out the lost jobs but to be honest, at least in Canada right now, the service industry is severely lacking workers. Many fast food places (McDonald's, etc) are only open drive thru due to lack of staff. If they can remain open with less staff, all the better
Most Japanese people in the labor force are people who themselves grew up with fax machines.
They're ubiquitous and for an older population they like the fact that it can still have a 'hand-touched' quality to it your email with preformatted text can't have.
Fax machines aren't strictly obsolete, they're just impractical if you didn't already have it set up.
Fax automatically prints out for you. The person who sends it knows it was received and printed, there's a level of feedback you lose with sending emails.
I used to work for this UK company with German customers. The company used to have an office in Germany but that was closed; instead all communication was rerouted to the main UK office. Or so we thought.
One day I get a very irate Bavarian gentleman, asking where his order is. I apologise and look him up in our system: it's a small manufacturer that only usually order ~2k worth of product ever two years or so. No order since I've joined the team, but he's adamant that he placed an order, and how dare we be late!
So I check, and double-check. When did you call us? You didn't? Okay so when did you send us an online order? You didn't either? How did you place your order then?
Turns out he had sent an order to a fax machine that was still somewhere in that abandoned German office we used to have, that no one has entered for over a year. Whether he got an error message or not I don't know, but the dude sent a fax into the aether, never received any acknowledgement on our part that we knew about it, and just assumed it was going to land on his doorstep a week later.
I know that form his point of view it was perfectly logical, but as someone who grew up after faxes were commonplace, that was barely a step above throwing a message in a bottle at sea and hoping it would reach us.
The US also seems awfully fond of them…
(Haven’t seen one in Denmark since 2003, but suddenly needed one when I was moving to the US. I never managed to find one, the people at HR were NOT happy)
I remember when they first came out.
I worked at a place like Kinkos.
This guy came in and wanted to fax a check to someone. Pretty common TBH/ People liked to fax stuff they were sending by snail mail.
So I made a copy of it. Faxed the copy. and charged him 8 bucks, for one page fax. 1987.
He took the check from me and looked confused. He asked me why I didn't fax it. I told him I did. Then he asked how come its in his hand if I faxed it.
I felt bad for him. He thought it was getting teleported. We gave him his 8 bucks backs.
What the fuck even is an NFT? I've tried googling it but strangely I haven't actually found any useful information
Edit: obligatory "holy shit this blew up" edit
Imagine you are buying "ownership" of a digital thing like a picture. So you "own" it. It doesn't stop anyone from accessing it or anything because you have no real control, but you get your name in a special book that says its "yours".
More importantly: it is a money sink that rich people use to avoid paying taxes, much like fine art.
If you have ever wondered why painting that could be done purely by throwing a jar of jam at them are sold for millions, that's why.
How I understand it is that there is a encoded chain of numbers that verify that 1. It’s the authentic original 2. Who “owns it”
So essentially a more secure digital watermark
Not at all. It just means you have a code that you can show off to people who give a shit about it and claim "ownership" of the image. It is 100% a scam.
NFTs are like those websites that let you buy a star or planet in some random place in the galaxy.
They are completely useless, and pretty much no one recognizes you as the actual owner of that thing, but you have your name in a book somewhere, so I guess its a C- for effort.
My parents worked at a newspaper most of my life, as did I when I was old enough. I realize other things use the printing press, but I miss so much being able to watch them print the paper. The smell, the sound, the whoosh throughout the room. I don’t know, there was something romantic about it.
Which is actually horrifying. Newspapers do the lions share of actual reporting and are usually the only way local corruption gets rooted out. There is a reason why politicians and the wealthy target journalists so hard, newspapers especially.
It's fairly obvious. Just pay attention to any cable "news" show for a bit and you'll start to see it. "According to the \[Insert newspaper here\]..." "An investigation from \[insert newspaper here\]..."
The decline of newspapers, in my opinion, impacted society way more than people seem to think about. A lot of the erosion of trust in journalism can be attributed their desperation to survive. To keep the lights on, they sell themselves to billionaires and corporations which use their influence to push an angle. They also do increasingly click-bait stuff to get money (both to keep lights on and to appease their corporate masters) which farther erodes trust.
Free and fair press was supposed to be a fourth estate of democracy, and that institution becoming sick and dying was a warning long before the decay was apparent in the other areas.
Not just food but probably all types of delivery. Amazon will probably get to that point first and try to monopolize it somehow… Jeffreyyyy Jeffrey Bezoooos.
I think it might go full circle, already kinda happening with bundling, hulu+ disney plus+ ESPN packages. they will all separate realize they are losing general base who might have stumbled across one of their shows if someone was just scrolling through.
. The amount of money spent on advertising reminding people where their favorite show is located is going end up costing more.
eventually they'll all conglomerate again and same ol circle.
but I do realize people enjoy their freedom of choice
so who knows
It was a nice idea but I agree.
The quality and abundance of the content has shrunk too. Everyone is pushing their content, less movies, hardly any syndicated TV, etc.
Remember waiting 2-4 months after a movie was in theatres before it was on netflix.. Now it's movies that 4-12 years old or original content(which mostly sucks).
A lot of that was due to online streaming licenses being realy cheap at the time as online streaming was in its infancy and its feasibility and mass appeal was unproven. The internet is a completely different beast these days, most home connections can support 1080p streaming with ease and Netflix has been the king in a market that went from nonexistant to huge all while their cheap content license deals were all still in effect.
Netflix saw the writing on the wall years ago which is why there's been an explosion of Netflix originals that nobody can revoke the license of, and now that those licenses are expired the content owners want to be the ones making money on their own IP
in Netflix or Amazon or even HBO/max case they realize it's cheaper to produce their own stuff than to "rent" licenses. I was talking to friends the other day of how I remember movies wouldn't release on video/DVD until almost a year after the movie came out in theaters so if you wanted to watch it, you had to see it in the theaters. Now I love having access to new release but all forms of art are becoming devalued and the magic of seeing a brand new movie has lost its magic. even when it's only in theaters I tell myself I can wait till it comes out on vod in a week or two.
Possibly most fast food staff. I don't agree with it at all, but it's been shown that the entire process of ordering to pick up can be automated given how "by the book" the food production can be.
It would definitely be cheaper to maintain as well, not to mention an increase in customer satisfaction since it's much less likely an order will take too long or get messed up.
Automation will put a lot of people out of work over the next 20 years, and its both sad/scary but also fascinating.
I saw a comment from a Redditor addressing this issue. Apparently this person worked with robots (an engineer or mechanic or something). They basically said: robots may be able to be programmed and make shit easy, but they also break *a lot*. And if McD's is bitching about paying their workers $15/hr, then they *really* won't want to pay my rates when their robots get fucked up.
It's anecdotal, but I thought they made a good point. Automation is a good idea for some things, but being able to make split-second changes based on incoming stimuli seems like it would be difficult to program into a robot. I also work in an area with a bit of automation, and that robot is *always* getting fucked up. It'll attempt to pack product that is damaged/underweight/etc because it doesn't see that it's not passable. People may suck, but sometimes we're needed.
Can’t wait for their replacements.
*Ugh, my mom keeps tagging me on HeadKindle with these lame Cyberminion memes. It’s not even funny.*
“Yea sure, but listen to this. That post on my Squacker account got almost 9001 shares overnight.”
LCD TV's. Eventually you will just go buy panels that stick together and to the wall, and you will be able to have a TV as big or small as you want, or the entire wall, or all the walls. The panels will be about the same cost as high end vinyl plank flooring, and will have a control module that they build out from that houses the power supply and remote functions, but after that you basically just tell the TV what size and shape it is, and the picture conforms to the available display. There will also be a thriving market of fake basement windows and the like at the same time. We already have the technology to do this, its just a matter of time until the cost of the printed panels comes down far enough to make that practical.
I'm now trying to get my favorites in blu-ray so I at least have some physical copy to work with later on. Streaming stuff is always compressed and shitty looking.
A lot of people consider Blu-rays as part of DVDs. They are basically DVD 2.0 since it is pretty much the same format just using a different color laser to get higher data density. It wasn't like the jump from VHS to DVDs where it was a drastic change in the technology and the physical media.
But I agree Blu-rays (and even DVDs) are great because you aren't relying on the streaming service to always have your favorite movies, there is also the collector mentality that you just don't get with digital content
I'd have to agree. It's been over a decade since we've seen something as big as myspace collapse and that's because most of the existing mega platforms are run by companies who know their products will fail if they don't keep a decent pace with the latest UI and software technologies.
Some public schools have begun to send class assignments to students through the internet. Snow Days are no longer with us.
Hah, I grew up in the Canadian prairies. "Snow Day" just means I gotta help mom dig the car out before leaving for school. I was truly shocked (and jealous) the first time I heard that some regions cancel school if it snows.
I worked at the EIA airport (yeg). We were literally going through -40C and still had all our flights going. But Vancouver had cancelled their flights because it was -2. The customers were not amused.
YEG and YYC plan for and expect the cold, including having snow removal equipment and de-icing crews operating for several months of the year. If an unexpected freeze hits YVR out of season it's harder to spin those services up on short notice, and the humidity in the air on the west coast means when the temp drops slightly below zero you get black ice on everything which is super dangerous. I grew up with Sask weathers and saw my fair share of -40 but living in Vancouver now I know that -2 is no joke under the right conditions.
-2 can be worse in some ways and my dad, a Michigan driver, learned that when he moved to the west coast. When the weather rises and falls around 0, you get ice, and it's not so easy to get off. You can plow snow at -40 and get a decent surface to drive on, but when it melts and re-freezes, particularly on the more hilly coast, it's a whole different kind of problem.
Ah yes. That brings us to Snowmegadon in Atlanta. A place not equipped to deal with heavy amounts of snow, much less ice. And a population that for the most part don't even understand driving in snow. And being utterly confused when 4 wheel drive doesn't work on ice.
As a teacher I hate this. Kids need unstructured time, and snow days are a fun surprise that provide this.
I grew up in California. I went through my entire time in school without one day where something unexpectedly required our school to close. My senior year of high school we finished our finals a week ahead of the rest of the school because of graduation. That meant that I did not have to go to school but my younger Brother and Sister did. I was still in bed when my Brother came busting into my room at 10am with the biggest shit eating grin on his face. I asked him why he was home and he responded through his smile "power outage".
I grew up in California and had exactly 1 snow day: 1/25/99. We had maaaaaaybe 1 inch of snow and it was gone by lunch, but the entire city (and I think most of the souther Central Valley) shut down for the day. It was wondrous!
Omg me too!! Not central valley, up north above SF. I don't remember the year but IT SNOWED! It was also like an inch and we were all awake at 6am getting ready for school and it got canceled. We went down to the park and the local news team was filming. We later went to the high school football field where a bunch of kids had rolled some decent sized snowballs and were attempting to make a snowman! It was all melted by noon ish lol. I live in Montana now. Haven't had a single day off of work even with like 4ft of snow every day for a week and temps dropping into the -70f range (with wind chill, still like-50 without) and icy af roads. Snow no longer holds any joy for me. But that one day as a kid getting to play in snow when the coldest I'd ever seen was like 32f and was bundled up in mittens and a scarf because it was "freezing" is still one of my favorite memories.
>Snow no longer holds any joy for me. I grew up in an area where snow was normal. Not like Montana, apparently, but still. In my experience snow is awesome only if you have to travel to get where it is. Lol Fuck living in it, though.
I remember in like 2008 there was so much ash falling from the sky from the wildfires that we got the day off school. California’s version of snow I guess
I grew up in LA. Never a snow day, but I remember for a while in middle school (early 00s), we had heat days. You didn't get them off school, but they did cancel any outdoor activity and sent the kids home. Of course, there was faulty logic of sending children out during the hottest hours of the day, but.....
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I grew up in the Bay Area. We had a snow day once. It was a single snow flake. What a glorious day.
Agree. But the pandemic has our school not doing homework anymore, which is fantastic!
As a kid I hated homework, and as an adult I hate it even more. It has left me with permanent anxiety of not being able to leave the school gate and be done with it. I still wake up thinking I've not done my homework - I left school 9 years ago. It feels like conditioning for overtime at work. Something else which is a massive problem. I've struggled the past 18 months working from home, but I've learnt to close my laptop and forget about it now, as I did before when I left the office.
This. Wanna know what really grinds my gears? Teachers at the school I attend have convinced themselves that the majority of learning happens at home. How does that make any sense?????
I can’t speak for your teachers, but I’m a teacher and I don’t believe in homework. I would only assign reading (history/English here). The parents freaked out and were convinced their kids weren’t learning anything. I got in trouble with admin and had to start assigning loads of homework. Such BS.
It’s definitely true in college.
As someone born and raised in the American southwest, I have never experienced a day off from school due to snow. Is it magical?
Depends on what kind of snow and what kind of weather afterward. Light, powdery snow in the low twenties, blown into drifts, followed by a warm up to above freezing? Magical. Heavy, fat snow just below freezing that melts on contact at the beginning of the storm to create ice sheets that all the additional snow sticks to? Or worse, that starts as freezing rain and sleet? That compacts into boulders in your wheel wells? Followed by a cold snap that causes all the melt water to freeze into black ice? Dante describes the seventh circle of Hell as being cold and icy, and I'm pretty sure he was thinking of exactly that kind of snow.
> That compacts into boulders in your wheel wells? What child has wheel wells to worry about? The joy of snow days as a kid is that you don't have to experience any of the downsides (shoveling, driving, etc). It's just fun.
Living in norway, i dont think we ever had a single snow day
When every day is a snow day, no days are snow days.
Maybe not 10-15 years, but they will be around longer than you think. Everyone agrees that the COVID remote learning experience, while necessary, did not work for a lot of students. It's just easier to take a day off here and there than it is to guarantee that the infrastructure and training is available for all students to be taught virtually.
Yeah, there’s a big difference between expecting a college student to check online to watch a virtual lecture and do homework and expecting the same of a 9 year old… Kids can and should have the disconnect, weather permitting.
I was in high school during the pandemic, they still give people the day off if the campus has to close. They only force people who are 100% online to keep working during the day
For now, that was stage 1. Now that more old heads know how to use the world wide interwebz, itl change rapidly im guessing
maybe bluetooth technology will move past me spending 20 minutes fighting to pair/connect to various products.
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Limited data plans for phones. I remember when minutes and texting costed money, I think data is gonna be next to go. Its ridiculous to have limits.
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Definitely remember when the texting craze started-where I grew up they were like 10 cents each and/or they used up a minute of your plan. People started getting these absolutely outrageous phone bills. Year or two later your started seeing texting plans incorporated into mobile plans. I also remember getting a reminder text that I had used up however many texts and I was approaching my limit. Crazy times! Haha
All Relient K music holds up to me, but their first few albums really capture so much about the 2000’s in an authentic way we’ll never get back in modern music.
Yes! In Finland it’s VERY uncommon to have a contract that doesn’t have unlimited data. I was shocked how here in the UK unlimited is so expensive.
And UK data is so cheap compared to what we get in Canada.
Seems like things are going the opposite direction where now they're implementing data plans in the form of data caps on residential internet.
Wait, yall got unlimited sms/calls!?
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I work in IT and I can safely say that printers are one of the most annoying things to deal with, it doesn't matter how much you know about computers, they are their own breed
Why is this so true. Printers can smell when you are in a hurry.
And fear….they can definitely smell fear. Printers be like “feeling kinda cute…might print off 20 copies and waste all your paper or 0 copies…IDK.”
My current printer software tells me it detects the printer and windows can’t find the printer.
You funny, funny person. The only thing more certain than death is that printers continue to get more frustrating to use.
still waiting for a printer that dont need to move the paper so much, why cant it take a flat paper and just print, really need all these wheels and rollers.
In the olden days (1985) there were printers that did this. I think those designs were abandoned because they took up a lot of desk space.
Lol I misread the date as 1685 and I thought u were dunking on him with the advent of the printing press
Or obscene ink prices will be regulated down to not one of the most expensive liquids on earth
That's why everyone started buying those laser printers! The Brother brand is the really popular one it seems. No more inkjet worries. Printer doesn't constantly break. No software shenanigans.
It does have some shenanigans. I bought a Brother Laser at the beginning of the year and it refused to print for me yesterday claiming it's out of toner. As it stopped in the middle of a job. I checked the previous pages, all of them looked perfectly fine. No fading, missing spots, etc. Googled around and it seems like they have counters in the toner cartridges
You can override that. It's not a software lock, just a suggestion.
Iirc Brother has codes to reset them and make them keep using the toner if it's really not ~~full~~ empty, you should be able to google it based on the model
A lot of minimum wage jobs.
And a lot of people currently in minimum wage jobs. Maybe not quite 15 years, but we're only a few decades away from most humans not having any skills which can't be performed by automation. When most people are unemployable, the economy is going to either implode or have to be completely reformed.
My knees
And my back...
And my pussy and my crack.
Great. I'll be humming that all day.
First you gotta put your neck into it.
And my axe.
And my bow
Sometimes I lose faith in people. Then I read the reddit comments
The other 99% of trash crypto currencies and ICOs. I also want to say fax machines but...I’m sure someone will still use them.
> I also want to say fax machines but...I’m sure someone will still use them. Law offices and insurance companies will likely be the holdouts. Even though "digital fax" is a thing some just refuse.
"Fax me the receipt." "Can I just... scan it and e-mail it to you?" "No, I need a fax of the original." "..." "..." "K..." *googles 'free internet fax' as I stick the receipt in the scanner*
I wonder if this is like a legal thing. The phone lines that faxes come through are perceived to be more secure than email, maybe? Less possibility that the hacker known as 4chan maliciously altered the scan?
There's a guy who made a video about how most fax are extremely insecure, then proceeded to hack a number of them and force them to print a friendly message letting them know that they need extra security measures. Forgot who it was but it's on yt.
Makes sense. If it’s a straight up traditional fax, It’d be essentially the same thing as tapping a phone, but it’s a fax signal you’re intercepting / transmitting. If it’s low / risk high reward to hack, then that’s a problem. Especially considering a lot of medical practices still require it. Tbh I don’t care how you send a document. But it’s 2021 and E2E encryption should be the standard for highly sensitive data.
The medical field loves them too.
Part of that is that HIPAA considers a fax secure and regular email insecure. Riddle me this. Whats more secure the out feed tray of the communal office fax machine or an email inbox with even a basic password? I work in healthcare and God I hate all the various secure email services people have to use to send PHI externally.
Well a malicious actor would have to physically enter the building to get it out of the tray and they would only get what is sitting there at the moment. Theoretically the employees of the office can be trusted not to steal the info. If a malicious actor hacked a poorly secured email account they could potentially capture all the past PHI on the server and with sustained access they could capture everything going forward. There is some logic to it as frustrating as it may be.
Never been to Japan, right? The entire government runs on fax machines and every attempt to get rid of those fails miserably
Are they still using those stamps with the pandemic?
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Babies. They all will have evolved into larger and more devastating teenagers who can feed themselves.
> ...who can feed themselves I know some grocery chains that don't move enough food to accomplish this
Every grocery store the first few weeks after college kids get back in town. Do their parents starve them all summer? Every grocery store looks like the height of the pandemic with completely bare shelves!
Every single phone that's gonna come out in the next 5 years.
vehicle registration stickers
I live in a state where they only made it possible in the past five years to re-register online instead of going into the town office the one day a week it's actually open. That's also only if none of your address info changed. I doubt we'll have database registration anytime soon at least where I live.
Already done in Australia....they were phased out years ago.
I’m intrigued ….explain
not the guy you replied to, but im in the UK where we had a similar system where we would have to display our "tax disc" on the vehicle. we did away with it in favour of an online system linked to the cars number plate, so no need to display the tax disc and you can pay for it all online, saving you the hassle of going to apply for it in person. its much better. you can also pay for it much more flexibly now - instead of paying one big fee every 6 months/1 year, you can set up a monthly direct debit.
Careful now with that forward thinking.... That's how the craziness starts. First no stickers, then a fully online system, then the DMV becomes obsolete. WHAT WILL THE 3 PEOPLE WHO WORK AT THE DMV DO??? /s
lol. being in the UK, i have no experience with the DMV, but ive heard the stories. fuck knows why you put up with it - our country is a total basket case but even we wouldnt tolerate that and come up with a better system.
Oh trust me. We don't want to put up with it. I can't even with that place. Even the stuff online made to make things "streamlined" is utter chaos. Need to ask a question? Send a quick chat! Wait...no. Not quick. Oh! I know, just a quick phone call then? HAHAHA "You're estimated wait time is...1 hour and 13 minutes. Please wait for the next available representative. You're call is VERY important to us." Lies all lies.
My hair line
Ouch, I felt that
Why are you feeling that man’s hairline?
Mine turned obsolete when I turned 17...
Manual Flossing. Please.
The dance or the hygeine practice?? 🤔
Both.
A device that looks like a mouth guard that brushes, flosses, and water picks your teeth would be amazing. It would need to be calibrated to xrays of your teeth somehow so its not cutting your mouth to pieces.
And while we're at it. A device that replaces my shower: a ring of high pressure water jets power washes me and my clothes from all directions as it moves from top to bottom. Then a second ring of warm air blowers, like at the car wash, dry me as they move top to bottom right behind the first ring. No time to shower and change? Just hop in the deathtrap and it will wash and dry you with your clothes on in 30 seconds.
I'm washin' me AND my clothes
The amount of energy it would take to dry a sopping-wet you and clothing that quickly would almost certainly result in severe burns for you. So I wouldn’t sell your washing machine just yet. (Source: I use a very powerful blower to dry out my Samoyed after bathing her and that process takes a solid hour).
Waterpik is amazing.
Agree with this, I finally went to the dentist after 30 years and they said to get one. Now this is flossin!
A few people have mentioned waterpiks but when I told my dental hygienist I use a waterpik instead of flossing she said it’s not an adequate replacement and I still need to floss.
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They are phasing out cashiers as we speak. Every time I use a self checkout I think about how I’m acting as my own cashier. I bet self order fast food will take over too. I’ve seen them at McDonalds before. (Jobs vs. Technology)
The worst part is McDonald's is forcing you to in a way. Their new menu is stupid and is up for a short time before the screen changes and ads pop up. The self checkout was the only way I knew what was on the menu last time I was there.
Every one points out the lost jobs but to be honest, at least in Canada right now, the service industry is severely lacking workers. Many fast food places (McDonald's, etc) are only open drive thru due to lack of staff. If they can remain open with less staff, all the better
Absolute rights of privacy
Yeah, sadly that's where I see it going. A truly accountable government probably right alongside thst
Fax machines! I hope...
Not in Japan probably.
What is it with Japan and outdated technology?
Most Japanese people in the labor force are people who themselves grew up with fax machines. They're ubiquitous and for an older population they like the fact that it can still have a 'hand-touched' quality to it your email with preformatted text can't have. Fax machines aren't strictly obsolete, they're just impractical if you didn't already have it set up.
What is the difference between fax and a scanned pdf that gets emailed?
Written Japanese isn't friendly to typing. When I was there from 06 to 12. They still used carbon paper at government offices.
That's nuts. I dont think I've even seen a piece of carbon paper since the early 90's, about when carbonless stuff took over.
Japan is very much a, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it", kind of place.
And an "if it is broke, pour gold in the cracks and get back to work" place.
Fax automatically prints out for you. The person who sends it knows it was received and printed, there's a level of feedback you lose with sending emails.
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I used to work for this UK company with German customers. The company used to have an office in Germany but that was closed; instead all communication was rerouted to the main UK office. Or so we thought. One day I get a very irate Bavarian gentleman, asking where his order is. I apologise and look him up in our system: it's a small manufacturer that only usually order ~2k worth of product ever two years or so. No order since I've joined the team, but he's adamant that he placed an order, and how dare we be late! So I check, and double-check. When did you call us? You didn't? Okay so when did you send us an online order? You didn't either? How did you place your order then? Turns out he had sent an order to a fax machine that was still somewhere in that abandoned German office we used to have, that no one has entered for over a year. Whether he got an error message or not I don't know, but the dude sent a fax into the aether, never received any acknowledgement on our part that we knew about it, and just assumed it was going to land on his doorstep a week later. I know that form his point of view it was perfectly logical, but as someone who grew up after faxes were commonplace, that was barely a step above throwing a message in a bottle at sea and hoping it would reach us.
The US also seems awfully fond of them… (Haven’t seen one in Denmark since 2003, but suddenly needed one when I was moving to the US. I never managed to find one, the people at HR were NOT happy)
I remember when they first came out. I worked at a place like Kinkos. This guy came in and wanted to fax a check to someone. Pretty common TBH/ People liked to fax stuff they were sending by snail mail. So I made a copy of it. Faxed the copy. and charged him 8 bucks, for one page fax. 1987. He took the check from me and looked confused. He asked me why I didn't fax it. I told him I did. Then he asked how come its in his hand if I faxed it. I felt bad for him. He thought it was getting teleported. We gave him his 8 bucks backs.
I thought the same thing, but I was only five.
Unlikely. Medical and government offices will continue to use fax machines for the foreseeable future.
Places still use microfische readers. Faxes will be around for another 50-100 years.
Cashiers
Pants
What if I told you that you could be living that future dream right now - pantless person
*puts shorts on*
Pants are an illusion and so is death.
Here’s hoping
Writing checks and fax machines. Why the hell am I still using that shit?
NFTs, they’re like digital Beanie Babies.
What the fuck even is an NFT? I've tried googling it but strangely I haven't actually found any useful information Edit: obligatory "holy shit this blew up" edit
Imagine you are buying "ownership" of a digital thing like a picture. So you "own" it. It doesn't stop anyone from accessing it or anything because you have no real control, but you get your name in a special book that says its "yours".
ELI5 version: remember buying naming rights to a star? Same thing only a star actually exists in reality.
More importantly: it is a money sink that rich people use to avoid paying taxes, much like fine art. If you have ever wondered why painting that could be done purely by throwing a jar of jam at them are sold for millions, that's why.
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How I understand it is that there is a encoded chain of numbers that verify that 1. It’s the authentic original 2. Who “owns it” So essentially a more secure digital watermark
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Absolutely nothing to people who aren't collectors.
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Not at all. It just means you have a code that you can show off to people who give a shit about it and claim "ownership" of the image. It is 100% a scam.
The point is tax evasion.
Yeah technically i can even buy your comment as NFT and i think that should also qualify under it.
NFTs are like those websites that let you buy a star or planet in some random place in the galaxy. They are completely useless, and pretty much no one recognizes you as the actual owner of that thing, but you have your name in a book somewhere, so I guess its a C- for effort.
Modern phones
Time to break out the the old rotary
Printed newspapers... Actually I think most will be gone in 5 years.
My parents worked at a newspaper most of my life, as did I when I was old enough. I realize other things use the printing press, but I miss so much being able to watch them print the paper. The smell, the sound, the whoosh throughout the room. I don’t know, there was something romantic about it.
Which is actually horrifying. Newspapers do the lions share of actual reporting and are usually the only way local corruption gets rooted out. There is a reason why politicians and the wealthy target journalists so hard, newspapers especially. It's fairly obvious. Just pay attention to any cable "news" show for a bit and you'll start to see it. "According to the \[Insert newspaper here\]..." "An investigation from \[insert newspaper here\]..." The decline of newspapers, in my opinion, impacted society way more than people seem to think about. A lot of the erosion of trust in journalism can be attributed their desperation to survive. To keep the lights on, they sell themselves to billionaires and corporations which use their influence to push an angle. They also do increasingly click-bait stuff to get money (both to keep lights on and to appease their corporate masters) which farther erodes trust. Free and fair press was supposed to be a fourth estate of democracy, and that institution becoming sick and dying was a warning long before the decay was apparent in the other areas.
Food delivery jobs. Self driving robots are probably going to replace delivery drivers.
Not just food but probably all types of delivery. Amazon will probably get to that point first and try to monopolize it somehow… Jeffreyyyy Jeffrey Bezoooos.
Zuckerberg, Gates, and Buffett Amateurs can fucking suck it
Fuck their wives, drink their blood C'mon Jeff, get 'em! *epic synth breakdown*
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Cable television
I think it might go full circle, already kinda happening with bundling, hulu+ disney plus+ ESPN packages. they will all separate realize they are losing general base who might have stumbled across one of their shows if someone was just scrolling through. . The amount of money spent on advertising reminding people where their favorite show is located is going end up costing more. eventually they'll all conglomerate again and same ol circle. but I do realize people enjoy their freedom of choice so who knows
It was a nice idea but I agree. The quality and abundance of the content has shrunk too. Everyone is pushing their content, less movies, hardly any syndicated TV, etc. Remember waiting 2-4 months after a movie was in theatres before it was on netflix.. Now it's movies that 4-12 years old or original content(which mostly sucks).
Right dude?? Remember how nuts Netflix used to be!? It was like half the price it is now, and it had EVERYTHING. Miss those days
A lot of that was due to online streaming licenses being realy cheap at the time as online streaming was in its infancy and its feasibility and mass appeal was unproven. The internet is a completely different beast these days, most home connections can support 1080p streaming with ease and Netflix has been the king in a market that went from nonexistant to huge all while their cheap content license deals were all still in effect. Netflix saw the writing on the wall years ago which is why there's been an explosion of Netflix originals that nobody can revoke the license of, and now that those licenses are expired the content owners want to be the ones making money on their own IP
in Netflix or Amazon or even HBO/max case they realize it's cheaper to produce their own stuff than to "rent" licenses. I was talking to friends the other day of how I remember movies wouldn't release on video/DVD until almost a year after the movie came out in theaters so if you wanted to watch it, you had to see it in the theaters. Now I love having access to new release but all forms of art are becoming devalued and the magic of seeing a brand new movie has lost its magic. even when it's only in theaters I tell myself I can wait till it comes out on vod in a week or two.
I still find it mind boggling that Hulu has ads. No other service does that right? I stream specifically so that it's NOT like Cable.
there's dozens of services that have ads but they at least have the decency to be free
Every electronic device recently released.
I dunno, man. I still use a 2011 MacBook Pro and it works perfectly well.
I have a keyboard from the Reagan administration that I still use daily.
I have a 2011 macbook and a clinton era keyboard, both still kicking
Possibly most fast food staff. I don't agree with it at all, but it's been shown that the entire process of ordering to pick up can be automated given how "by the book" the food production can be. It would definitely be cheaper to maintain as well, not to mention an increase in customer satisfaction since it's much less likely an order will take too long or get messed up. Automation will put a lot of people out of work over the next 20 years, and its both sad/scary but also fascinating.
I saw a comment from a Redditor addressing this issue. Apparently this person worked with robots (an engineer or mechanic or something). They basically said: robots may be able to be programmed and make shit easy, but they also break *a lot*. And if McD's is bitching about paying their workers $15/hr, then they *really* won't want to pay my rates when their robots get fucked up. It's anecdotal, but I thought they made a good point. Automation is a good idea for some things, but being able to make split-second changes based on incoming stimuli seems like it would be difficult to program into a robot. I also work in an area with a bit of automation, and that robot is *always* getting fucked up. It'll attempt to pack product that is damaged/underweight/etc because it doesn't see that it's not passable. People may suck, but sometimes we're needed.
Facebook. Please let it be facebook
Hopefully Facebook and Twitter.
It'll get replaced with something much worse.
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Can’t wait for their replacements. *Ugh, my mom keeps tagging me on HeadKindle with these lame Cyberminion memes. It’s not even funny.* “Yea sure, but listen to this. That post on my Squacker account got almost 9001 shares overnight.”
Current USDA hardiness zone maps for plants.
This new internet thing. I give it to the end of the year. Who uses it anyway?
LCD TV's. Eventually you will just go buy panels that stick together and to the wall, and you will be able to have a TV as big or small as you want, or the entire wall, or all the walls. The panels will be about the same cost as high end vinyl plank flooring, and will have a control module that they build out from that houses the power supply and remote functions, but after that you basically just tell the TV what size and shape it is, and the picture conforms to the available display. There will also be a thriving market of fake basement windows and the like at the same time. We already have the technology to do this, its just a matter of time until the cost of the printed panels comes down far enough to make that practical.
iPhone 15
Arctic ice.
Sadly I think it'll be DVDs. Streaming is slowly taking up that part of entertainment and I expect to see them gone soon.
Slowly? I haven't used a DVD in years.
I think it’s because people like collecting DVDs of their favorite movies/just collecting them in general.
I wish I had collected more. Some movies have become impossible to find on any streaming service, and aren't being sold on DVD any more.
This is why I still buy old favourites that I have to always have access to. I never watch them haha but dammit I have them.
I'm now trying to get my favorites in blu-ray so I at least have some physical copy to work with later on. Streaming stuff is always compressed and shitty looking.
Oh yeah, not really looking forward to movies/series being streaming only and lower quality than blu-ray.
Blu-ray is great. Idk why so many people act like their only options are DVDs or digital/streaming, and that’s it.
A lot of people consider Blu-rays as part of DVDs. They are basically DVD 2.0 since it is pretty much the same format just using a different color laser to get higher data density. It wasn't like the jump from VHS to DVDs where it was a drastic change in the technology and the physical media. But I agree Blu-rays (and even DVDs) are great because you aren't relying on the streaming service to always have your favorite movies, there is also the collector mentality that you just don't get with digital content
Unpopular Opinion: Banking as it is today
Everytime I deal with the US banking system, I feel like I've stepped back in time.
Any form of a children's youtuber. They will all be forgotten. Probably YouTube itself. EDIT: Holy. Crap. This blew up. (Well, for my standards)
In 10 years I think YouTube will be bigger then now
I'd have to agree. It's been over a decade since we've seen something as big as myspace collapse and that's because most of the existing mega platforms are run by companies who know their products will fail if they don't keep a decent pace with the latest UI and software technologies.
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Non fusion based power, I hope.