The complexities of simplicity

[sunrat]

Fascinating article:-

 

Technology promises to make life simpler. So why does everything keep getting more complicated?

 

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Keeping it simple, it seems, is far more complicated than you might imagine. But the solution lies in a better understanding of the complexities of simplicity.

 

[raymac46]

I can think of a couple of examples:

1. Right now my 93 year old mother in law is being forced to install a fiber optic gateway in her home when all she wants to do is make a few phone calls on her plain old copper wire telephone line.
2. Most folks in my 'hood have smartphones, laptops, wireless printers, tablets, and streaming sticks or boxes. This forced them to install a wireless network that they don't understand and cannot manage. The manufacturer of their gateway has dumbed down security to the point where it is risky or very difficult to decipher if something isn't working right.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Heh... yeah. Technology has made things so much simpler and less complicated. Uh-huh. As I've often said... I'd love to go to sleep tonight and wake up in 1965. Sure, there'd be some "modern" things I might miss, but I'd get over it pretty quickly, I think.

[abarbarian]

My car electric central locking borked on me two years ago, it was an issue with the key fob. Did I miss opening the doors with as press of a button, yup sure did. Did I fork out £ 170 for a new fob ? Like heck I did I went back to the old fashioned way of using a physical key, Soon got the hang of it again.

Edited February 4, 2023 by abarbarian

[V.T. Eric Layton]

5 hours ago, abarbarian said:

Did I miss opening the doors with as press of a button

 

BAHAHA! I drive (when I can afford tag/insurance) a 1982 Chevy Pickup and a 1996 Chevy Suburban. The doors open using old tech... it looks like this:

 

[Cluttermagnet]

Funny, Eric-

 

The ignition key to my old 90's Chevy van looks sorta like that- except-

mine looks like it was gnawed on by steel toothed beavers. It's the

polar opposite of yours, with your one little nick. Nine has only about half

the material left in the grinding area.

 

Clutter

 

[V.T. Eric Layton]

The image above are just GM key blanks ('70s-'80s), not my actual keys. However, they are the proper keys for my '82 Chevy. The one for the '96 Suburban has a fancy plastic covering over the top part of the key. Like this...

 

 

This plastic carp was also on the key to my '03 Trailblazer, but a cheaper version with an all plastic loop; when the loop broke, I just cut the plastic off completely and drilled a hole through the metal key head to be able to attach it to my key ring.

 

2003 Trailblazer key:

 

[Cluttermagnet]

Oh, BTW I went back to manual key opening of my car doors as well.

Electronic thingie was getting increasingly 'deaf' for some reason.

Dozens of button pushes, no unlockie, etc. Bah Humbug.

[sunrat]

23 hours ago, Cluttermagnet said:

Oh, BTW I went back to manual key opening of my car doors as well.

Electronic thingie was getting increasingly 'deaf' for some reason.

 Flat battery.