It looks like this subscription may be for their “smart” printers. So the subscription would be for the connection to phone service. Why you’d need a smart printer is beyond me but they apparently think there is a market for it.
It looks like this subscription may be for their “smart” printers. So the subscription would be for the connection to phone service. Why you’d need a smart printer is beyond me but they apparently think there is a market for it.
I think it’s for “smart” washing machines that you can control from your phone etc. So that’s likely what the “updates” would be related too…why you’d need to control your washing machine from afar is beyond me but some people love smart gadgets and will by anything that connects to their phone.
Is that on purpose or is the thing so badly made that it’s blinking like that?
I didnt take it as an insult, I just disagree with its use here. What I mean is that it’s not learned incompetence, I’m speaking specifically for me. I’m fully capable of learning how this stuff works and I know I could, I just dont want to. I just dont care about tech stuff, it bores me. The same way some people don’t care about the rules of football, or the way contract law works, or the difference between needle lace and bobbin lace, that’s how I feel about tech. I could learn it, I’d just rather not. There are a lot of people like me who don’t want to learn this stuff because they don’t enjoy it and like it or not that apathy (rather than inability, real or imagined) is a strong barrier to entry for something like lemmy/the “fediverse”
Im not sure its so much learned helplessness as, and I know this will be an unpopular opinion here, I don’t want to understand how it all works behind the scenes. I don’t care how lemmy is like email, I don’t care if mastodon can see me if I can’t see them, I don’t want to have to know the differences between what version/update my instance vs app is using, etc…I could learn all that, I just dont want to have too, but I probably qualify as part of the “normie masses”.
Thanks for the link! I got on Reddit right before the switch to new reddit so I never really used old reddit. Im gonna
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Edit: so the formatting took me like 6 tries, but I got there! Conquering Lemmy one * at a time!
I could never be confused as someone whose good with tech. I have a job where knowing basic excel makes you the resident tech genius we all go to for help. I can confirm that I do find lemmy complicated.
If your on .world there are a ton of hexbear comments in this thread you aren’t seeing. You are only seeing half the conversation going on in here right now.