{"id":4237,"date":"2022-08-20T20:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2022-08-20T20:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T20:18:05","slug":"tech-people-are-zombies-and-enjoy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/08\/tech-people-are-zombies-and-enjoy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech people are zombies and enjoy it"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2019\/10\/13\/big-tech-people-a-complicated-relationship-of-convenience\/\">have written before<\/a>, this is the dilemma and dichotomy of our increasingly complicated and conflicted relationships with modern technologies \u2013 especially those that rely on networks, data, and personalization.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is a dichotomy if you make the choice of deciding that it is. <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no dichotomy here: you don\u2019t have to use those AirTags to live properly. Technology\u2019s convenience is just that, convenience. It is not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of tech folks is that their business relies on selling tech therefore, they can\u2019t question <em>any<\/em> of it, even personally. It\u2019s driving our world to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Be assertive, and question the fuck out of technology that enables terrible behavior.<\/p>\n<p>A laptop, -an absolutely amazing tool- is not making you question potential issues. AirTags IMMEDIATELY scream <em>\u201cuh, this might totally be used for nefarious activities lol\u201d.<\/em> The 96MB of L3 cache on the new AMD CPU? That\u2019s safe! Everyone glued on their phones? That\u2019s bad!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut I need my AirTags because I forget my stuff around\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have less stuff, focus and practice not losing your stuff, get your shit together, practice mindfulness or try to remember when it was 2003 and that you didn\u2019t need this tech. You still managed to live a decent life.<\/p>\n<p>Question your habits and be <em>ruthless<\/em> about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I have written before, this is the dilemma and dichotomy of our increasingly complicated and conflicted relationships with modern technologies \u2013 especially those that rely on networks, data, and personalization. It is a dichotomy if you make the choice of deciding that it is. There\u2019s no dichotomy here: you don\u2019t have to use those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}