Technology has transformed our world. The impact is beyond words and seemingly accelerating. Few would argue there are positive impacts. Like keeping in touch with those near and dear to us.
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The world now seems smaller. We are connected. Constantly, if so desired.
- Are we too connected? Is there such a thing as being too connected? With our younger generations, in particular, this is not a trivial question. Studies now coming out indicate the impact on them is not all positive.
In the background, there has been a continuous and relentless advance in the technologies associated with all these transformational shifts in societies around the world. How dependent have we become upon them working. And working without fail?
What happens when they
stop working?
Call tech support! Yes, we have likely all have lots of stories about our experiences with that process. At least, it normally ends well and on with our lives we go.
What if tech support fails? Dealing with that is the basis for my post.
Earlier today, it began with technical problems which have plagued my workstation now for weeks. Very simply, a typical day starts with turning it on and skimming through various channels of information, to see what is happening.
What if you cannot connect to the Internet?
What? 😒 We have to have 24 / 7 / 365 connectivity! Without fail!! Yeah, well, we can't always have what we want. 🤔😉
I will not go into a lot of detail about the particulars I am facing, other than a few bullet points:
- I have years of experience working with computers.
- All of the built-in, self-help options have been tried. For example, the underlying operating system's troubleshooting, the associated apps troubleshooting, resetting and rebooting any associated hardware and software ...
- Every "pro tip" I know has been tried. Every tech support option I have has been contacted. All have failed.
- The problem is intermittent. That is, sometimes I can start up in the morning and everything works just fine. Other times, it does not.
This last point is the biggest one. I know from hard experience, when we cannot consistently recreate the problem we are facing, it is going to be tough to fix. Connectivity issues are particularly tough, given the layers of both hardware and software details linked to having it all work together without fail.
A few of my increasingly more costly options, in trying to get past this:
- Pay for expertise which I do not have, if I can find it, to successfully troubleshoot and permanently fix the problem.
- Rebuild my hard drive.
- Buy a new workstation.
The only solace I have is by applying my "bag of tricks," I have come up with two different processes by which I can restore my connection to the Internet. At least temporarily. Which I have done yet again, as is obvious since I just clicked the publish button on this post. 🫡
Can living life simply be an acquired skill? Maybe a rediscovered skill? This may seem like a funny way to end this post, but I find it has relevance to me to at least think about it.
Why?
It is remarkably uplifting, in the right state of mind, to simply get up from my workstation and go outside! In the sunlight, ideally, but even just getting outside under most conditions is still refreshing. May be even invigorating!
At least it puts us in touch with what has always been. Where the unprecedented rate of change in our lifetimes is at least somewhat hidden away. That has some value which is increasing with the more I think about what is important. And what is not.
What is your experience with the technological advances of our time in this big, wide world? Whatever they may be? Wherever you may live? What are your experiences when they stop working?
Best wishes, until we meet again,
QT
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The Australian government rolled out NBN (National Broadband Network) across the country with fibre optic cable for faster broadband. So naturally our internet goes out even more often than it used to and is no faster than before. It's not usually too much of a problem for us, but for those with school children who are supposed to use it for their homework and the school isn't being understanding, it can get quite stressful. These days there is phone data available as well if you have something important that needs doing right away.
When the internet goes out and I find myself stressing I try to also remind myself how we did things before it even existed. Like going out in the sunlight as you said. We don't get enough of it these days.
Yet ironically we are also more disconnected by it, especially when we gravitate to doing all our socialising virtually instead of in person. (This could be added to that post about loss of community one of us might write. 😉)
Yes, @minismallholding, a great example. Can we imagine what the future holds on this topic? That is, how much more challenging it will be, if suddenly our connection is lost?
I don't personally see this trend going in the right direction, but unclear what, if anything, I can do about it.
Agreed. I certainly don't and am making a conscious effort to change that. It is sadly surprising how challenging that is to make such a simple correction to my behavior. 😒🥲 But it is unmistakable the effect it has, as I touched on briefly. What enormous power something as simple as while walking around our neighborhoods can have, with sunlight on our faces.
It clears my mind and is an excellent time for reflection. It needs to happen more consistently and frequently. No matter what.
Thank you kindly for stopping by and adding your insights to my post!
Yes, well, I am now going to follow your account, so I do not miss it. Maybe we could "tag team" it, as I can easily imagine a number of different aspects of how it could be written and what could be said. We could "bat it" back and forth. Hahaha ... 🤝
Funnily enough I recently researched and wrote something on sunlight, specifically red and infrared light, and how healing it is. Even knowing this, though, I'm still struggling to get out in it enough. I miss having the time to garden most days. 😭
It could be fun to bat out back and forth, even if it's a slow process. I only have time to write little bits at a time in between work. I'll say again please tag me if you post anything. I don't often get chance to go through my feed, so I'm guaranteed to miss it if you don't.
With a busy day here IRL, I am only just getting to publish my next post, which I had sort of started for the Hive Garden community. Getting started, it may not last long, but I am attempting to write one every day.
With that done, now I have a chance to catch up a little bit.
Glad to see we have a little bit in common with the struggle to get outside enough. We are reading up on a number of different books these days about the growing crisis in our health. And all the recommendations on what to do about it.
While we think we do relatively well with the diet recommendations (always room for improvement though), we definitely fall down on the get outside and get enough exercise. Not good.
Gardening sure helps provide some additional motivation, though, with the return of Spring!
Okay, now that you tell me this:
I wasn't sure if that was what I should do. Maybe I can get some more thoughts down on how I would start out. From there, bat it back and forth, tag team it, pass the baton ... Whatever analogy works! Hahaha ... 🤝
It depends how you were thinking to do things. We can do things as posts and them have further conversations in the comments or collaborate with something that one of us then posts and share the rewards via beneficiaries.
Are you on discord? We usually do most off hive communication that way.
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