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• iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  1. Easily creating online business with customers around the world, freeing yourself from corporate slavery

  2. Using Bitcoin to free yourself from inflation and govt control

  3. Video calling family that live far away, without needing to expensively fly or drive every time you want to see them

  4. Building a house with cheap DIY solar to be self sufficient

  5. Podcasts with independent thinkers and experts to see the truth outside of govt & mainstream propaganda

  6. Free education via online videos and courses in EVERY subject imaginable

  7. Modern smart appliances that clean, cook and take care of your children

  etc etc

  Each one of these is an immense change that on its own would justify TODAY as being leaps better than 20 years ago.

  Tech is synonymous with change. Giving up on tech is the same as giving up on advancing the future. To live in stasis. Although its nice to sit still every now and then, and just appreciate the sunset, its no way to live life.

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  • goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I think i'm just over exposed to it all. I am an engineer, work with computers, robots, fancy gear, quite often, but i don't get my phone out at restaurants. I don"t watch films on planes. I enjoy silence, walking out in beach or remote places. I only do this now to kill time in quarantine in a hotel in asia before getting on a ship.

    I am conscious of the advancements & opportunities, and i & my family use & benefit from them but i'm not dependent on them, and don't miss them.

    1. Yes and no, there were other opportunites before, expat jobs, and other kinds of remote work.

    2. Bitcoin is not looking like an inflation hedge, and the idea goes back to the early 80s.

    3. That is cool, but i like travel, i miss letter writing, and the less ephemeral disposible world we had.

    4. That was also possible before, albeit different

    5. There wasn't nearly as much propaganda and misinformation before as now, this is one of the main turnoffs... Smartphone culture, digital mobs, control, monitoring, censorship, its all so much easier now

    6. Yes but, books are better, as are real people. I've taught online at a university before, and its not ideal. There some useful videos, but i cobsumed books voraciously as a kid, more than mine do.

    7. Fuck that shit. I'd rather have real women do it, and ve involved myself, life is turning into a simulation.

    It's different, but not all better. Not all tech is good. We were told computers would free up our time, instead they consume even more of it.

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    • iamtanmay@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I am an engineer too. I appreciate disconnecting and being in nature like you.

      Any tech to improve my family's life is a miracle.

      1. Physical presence used to be necessary to get clients. Today my partner runs a global business at home. Parents get time at home with kids instead of office.

      2. BTC has many uses. USD/Eur lost 10%/6% since 2020, BTC gained 600%. Govts freezing bank accounts, fines etc show the importance of BTC.

      3. I travel 3x a year. I can't visit grandma on another continent every weekend. Instead, we video call and play online board games.

      4. 20 years ago, solar was unaffordable. I did my Bachelors thesis with Solar manufacturers to substitute expensive metals & use thin film transistors.

      5. Propaganda was worse with only two or three TV channels and a handful of major newspapers. Elites controlled EVERYTHING

      6. Not everyone has money or access to a library. Cheap smartphones and internet allow the poor to learn a trade and climb out of poverty.

      7. I built everything in my house - no hired plumbers, electricians etc. Still going to use every tool to improve life. Cooking machines or robot cleaners.

      You are right, some things have gotten worse: censorship, lefties. Computers consume time voluntarily. People are addicted to their unlimited power.

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      • goldenballs@wolfballs.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        1. Depends what you do and where.
        2. Crypto is collapsing like tech stocks. It needs to be reincarnated in more resilient, accessible, usable form.
        3. I remember seeing video phones on 2001 film, but i don't care about videophones so much now.
        4. Yeah but solar is only one technology you can use for offgrid
        5. Not if you turn it off. In fact i don't think it was worse. It is so much more petvasive, intrusive, granular, and personalised now.
        6. Sometimes, but not many of them use it like that, and not all of the good content is free.
        7. Not me. I will recuit a harem of svelte 20-somethings, with broken English, and let them fight over my toolbag.

        I find that simplifying life yields better outcomes.

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