20 Nov
2022
20 Nov
'22
8:34 p.m.
On Sunday 20 November 2022 12:20:36 Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday 20 November 2022 21.01:43 William Morder via
tde-users wrote:
I am thinking about a solar oven. But now I hear that
Jackery (among others)
has a 2600W power bank (whatever is the proper term?), with solar panels to
match, etc., etc. This is a portable solar generator setup, and it is almost
enough to run a whole house.
So I am thinking to keep anything that can be powered by my solar setup.
Well, as somebody else said earlier in this
thread, these smartphones are
becoming necessary for almost everything. True, I am getting old enough
that I can avoid being forced to change my way of life,
Yes. Just had to "activate two factor authentification" just to be able to
order a new microwave...
But there are things I refuse. Whats app is such a thing. If they don't
send e-mails, I'm out (and willing to remain).
I do send SMS message on my phone, because I have contacts who are too lazy or
not smart enough or just unwilling to use XMPP/Jabber. However, except for
those few laggards, I try to stick to messaging only by Jabber, which I use
over Tor.
Luckily my school did not choose to use Teams for messages, but others seem
to make this choice: you sens a mail (with an M$ address because it's for
work) and you get an invitation to an online meeting...
This is another perk of getting older. I can only say that I am glad that I
missed all that, because I know that I would be even more unemployable in
that glorious future that I can already see here and now.
Bill