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Sometimes? Even when I was young, the Computer Room^TM^ is where I spent most of my day.
I was never rich enough to afford a whole room for a computer
Maybe they mean back when computers where big as rooms?
You can still achieve this by pretending the WiFi only exists in one room in your house and behaving according to it. Or rather going into airplane mode anywhere outside that room.
I carry my phone when I am out as literally for emergency if I need to be contacted. In over 21 years since I have been using mobile phones, the number of times I have been contacted for emergencies has been-- zero. Yup, that is how important mobile phone is to me, it's always a "just in case" emergency device.
I'm being sarcastic on my comment but thankfully i have not been contacted nor have to contact anyone for any emergencies.
Its also a recording device in case of being a victim of police brutality or racist karen harassment, preferrably with auto cloud backup (or livestream).
Walks go hard with headphones and music though.
I mostly carry it as a pedometer.
At those times I'm really glad I prefer my desktop over my phone. When I get up and leave, I'm way less likely to check social media. (Granted, nowadays social media for me is just YouTube and Lemmy, but... you know.)
It's a great MP3 player though. And gameboy.
Cutting out socials was the best move on my part. I’ve only got Lemmy, Snapchat which I only use for messaging, Instagram which I only really use to follow bands and message, and YouTube
Cutting out socials
Lists four socials
Sorry, I know what you mean, it was just funny.
Ive been addicted to YouTube since age like 13 so that doesn't help me😭
I'm reading this while out on a walk, i feel attacked
Elon is one of the biggest sacks of shit on the face of the planet, but he wasn’t wrong when he said people have become cyborgs. Everyone voluntarily plugged into a hivemind that exists to sell us shit we don’t need and manipulate our emotions to keep us engaged.
We voluntarily became the Borg. We hard wired ourselves into an ever-present stream of voices that kills critical thinking and independent thought. And now we’re living in the world created by a river of ignorance everyone drowns in.
I want to go back to being TNG Borg who were all equal and didn't have a queen
Borg queen kinda killed the Borg idea, didn't it? It was much more sublime when it was a completely alien hivemind that is more like a force of nature. But the show runners were just too stupid to grapple with that idea, apparently, and needed a singular melodramatic villain
I like the conspiracy theory that the Borg just fake having a queen to scare primitive civilisations
It's like the writers couldn't understand that the Borg was a collective consciousness. They seemed to think there needed to be one voice above the cacophony of many... Instead of realizing the collective would have its own overriding imperatives that squash down the anarchy of the many into the will of the collective.
Exactly. Tyranny of the majority would absolutely drown out the individualism. And was definitely the case as demonstrated by Hugh's storyline. Once separated from the collective, individualism returned. If anything, that would have made a much stronger narrative motivation for the federation: these are people, individuals that need to be extracted from the mass of madness; not destroyed. Would have also made better western propaganda if viewed from the lens of liberal democracy vs. communism. Sending Hugh back into that hell definitely would have killed the individual that came to be without hope that his experiences would make any impact. It isn't like the Borg were unaccustomed to absorbing individualism because, uh, yeah, they literally did that all the time when assimilating new people. Fuckin' Piller definitely wasn't big brained enough to think all of this through, obviously.
There are other people that have made the cyborg point than Elon. It's a relatively common sentiment
"Spare battery"? What year is this XKCD from? Pre-2012?
A power bank could also fill the same role, albeit external
I still carry a spare battery for my phone
Fairphone owner? External batteries don't count.
You're not Randall Munroe, you don't get to choose what counts. I think external batteries do count.
Common sense disagrees.
I don't think xkcd is for people who value common sense.
If I say "my phone is out of juice, let me grab a spare battery" most people will be confused if I start putting a bunch of tools in a box. Nobody will be confused if I simply grab an external battery.
Common sense isn't a thing that exists, it's a lazy trope used when you don't want to explain something you think is obvious.
it's a battery that you have as a spare in case your main battery runs out. it's a spare battery.
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