Technology.

[Tashyboy]

Went into Curry’s yesterday and had a look at Oleg tellys. To say I was overwhelmed is an understatement. We currently have a Sony HD which is very good. The guy in Curry’s mentioned about the features in the Oleg. And Missis T mentioned about some of the features on our telly. I didn’t have a clue what she was on about. Anyway she has had a play and there’s loads we have never used. Inc a blue button that says FOOTBALL. In essence it enhances the football experience inc VAR. Never been used in 5 years. There’s loads of other features never been used.
So how much do we know about our technology products. How much of an items full potential do we use. I don’t just mean Tellys, I am on about Laptops, phones, Tablets etc etc.
Thoughts.

oh re tellys, Young lad Tash is pushing for permanent residepancy in Oz so hopefully later this year am having his 4K LG when he goes ??

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I suspect I use 2% of the capability of my phone. I see the adverts for phones, people doing fancy things on them and I do none of them. Same for my works computer, Alexa and possibly now you have mentioned it, my tv. I know after the big battle scene in GoT last series which was too dark for most people the director, lighting bloke moaned that we should all have altered the settings on our tv to suit. I realised that I had not changed the settings from auto since we had bought it 5 years ago. I altered them as he suggested, watched the episode again and could actually see the action this time. He was a dipstick still for filming it in too dark a light and not warning everyone to change their settings but it was an interesting lesson. Saying that, the settings are back to auto and I don't change them for films, sports etc.

 

[Hacker Khan]

RTFM

 

[USER1999]

Most stuff now doesn't come with a manual.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Most stuff now doesn't come with a manual.

Yes they do, it's that they are mostly on line now either as a document or a series of videos.

 

[Wolf]

My TV I turn it in and just watch it.. Cant be bothered playing with settings for different types of programs.

My phone used constantly for different apps, work, camera so probably used to near on its full potential a lot.

Google home gets asked the odd question but isn't set up for interactive house apps etc. my tablet no idea when I last turned it on.

My smart watch in constant use for work and training.

I guess it depends on your lifestyle and choices.

 

[Robster59]

The father in law's TV stopped showing a picture so we called it a local engineer. It turns out just one of the LEDs had gone, so he replaced it and it was fine. He also explained that most TVs are set up for maximum backlight which burns out LEDs. He recommended turning down the backlight and increasing the brightness.

 

[williamalex1]

Went into Curry’s yesterday and had a look at Oleg tellys. To say I was overwhelmed is an understatement. We currently have a Sony HD which is very good. The guy in Curry’s mentioned about the features in the Oleg. And Missis T mentioned about some of the features on our telly. I didn’t have a clue what she was on about. Anyway she has had a play and there’s loads we have never used. Inc a blue button that says FOOTBALL. In essence it enhances the football experience inc VAR. Never been used in 5 years. There’s loads of other features never been used.
So how much do we know about our technology products. How much of an items full potential do we use. I don’t just mean Tellys, I am on about Laptops, phones, Tablets etc etc.
Thoughts.

oh re tellys, Young lad Tash is pushing for permanent residepancy in Oz so hopefully later this year am having his 4K LG when he goes ??

I had a telly in my man cave for 2 years and didn't know it was smart, until I bought a larger model for our living room and actually read the instructions DOH !

 

[Blue in Munich]

Much like others, I turn on a TV and watch it, haven’t got a clue what it does and it doesn’t bother me.

What does bother me is the tracking that is done on the internet. I’ve been looking at accommodation in Scotland to extend a trip, Mrs. BiM starts getting adverts related to it on her Facebook page. How do you stop that happening?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Much like others, I turn on a TV and watch it, haven’t got a clue what it does and it doesn’t bother me.

What does bother me is the tracking that is done on the internet. I’ve been looking at accommodation in Scotland to extend a trip, Mrs. BiM starts getting adverts related to it on her Facebook page. How do you stop that happening?

Big brother is watching you at every moment of the day now ,or so it seems . I get the same thing when I look up something on eBay I'm then getting ads related to it on the phone

 

[robinthehood]

Stop accepting all those cookies

 

[jim8flog]

RTFM

I have Panasonic TV one of the reviews said it had no on off button you had to use the remote.

Took me 5 years and a read of the manual it realise it does. Just in a very obscure place at the back of the TV.

 

[jim8flog]

I have a track programmable CD player

What do I do - put a CD in and press play.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Much like others, I turn on a TV and watch it, haven’t got a clue what it does and it doesn’t bother me.

What does bother me is the tracking that is done on the internet. I’ve been looking at accommodation in Scotland to extend a trip, Mrs. BiM starts getting adverts related to it on her Facebook page. How do you stop that happening?

You don't. Facebook knows you are looking at accommodation in Scotland, it knows who your wife is so it is a simple thing for them to show adverts for hotels in Scotland to your wife. I had much the same experience but with adverts for a swingers club appearing in my wife's Facebook feed (long story.....)

This book is an excellent explanation of how this happened https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism But in short society as a whole has allowed the big tech companies to sell data relating to your behaviour as a way of making money. Initially the data you gave to the tech companies through your interaction with their services on the internet was used to improve that particular service, for example google collected data about you to provide better tailored search results when you go into google. But after the dot com crash in the early 2000s these companies, especially google, needed to make money and stumbled across the potential to use this data we are giving them every time we like something or follow a link or type an answer into a golf forum to sell to advertisers and others. And legally we give them the right every time we accept the terms and conditions, which you increasingly have to do to use the 'free' service or app. And this leads to things like targeted advertising for both products such as hotels in Scotland but also increasingly political persuasion to vote for Corbyn, Brexit etc etc.

You can do some basic things like blocking cookies and sorting out your privacy settings in these apps but you can't opt out of this surveillance culture. If you have a smart phone look how many apps have permission to read your messages or track your location even if you are not using that app, it is frightening. There is more of a move now to try and reel this in a bit and governments are finally waking up to this, but as ever the legislation is way behind what the tech companies are doing and it isn't really seen as a 'vote winner', which increasingly drives what governments do. Also things like GDPR do help a bit but you could argue the ship has well and truly sailed.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Every now and then I get a pop-up from Google telling me I must say yes or no to certain things, and everyone of them gets a "no".
Of course, this might have something to do with me running Privazer before shutting the pc down each time (it's free and very efficient at removing anything tracking/cookie/cache related )
Some may say overkill, what are you trying to hide....I reply my privacy and desire not to have intrusive ads and things for something I don't want.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Some light on the horizon https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-idUSKBN1ZD2L0

 

[Blue in Munich]

You don't. Facebook knows you are looking at accommodation in Scotland, it knows who your wife is so it is a simple thing for them to show adverts for hotels in Scotland to your wife. I had much the same experience but with adverts for a swingers club appearing in my wife's Facebook feed (long story.....)

This book is an excellent explanation of how this happened https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195941-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism But in short society as a whole has allowed the big tech companies to sell data relating to your behaviour as a way of making money. Initially the data you gave to the tech companies through your interaction with their services on the internet was used to improve that particular service, for example google collected data about you to provide better tailored search results when you go into google. But after the dot com crash in the early 2000s these companies, especially google, needed to make money and stumbled across the potential to use this data we are giving them every time we like something or follow a link or type an answer into a golf forum to sell to advertisers and others. And legally we give them the right every time we accept the terms and conditions, which you increasingly have to do to use the 'free' service or app. And this leads to things like targeted advertising for both products such as hotels in Scotland but also increasingly political persuasion to vote for Corbyn, Brexit etc etc.

You can do some basic things like blocking cookies and sorting out your privacy settings in these apps but you can't opt out of this surveillance culture. If you have a smart phone look how many apps have permission to read your messages or track your location even if you are not using that app, it is frightening. There is more of a move now to try and reel this in a bit and governments are finally waking up to this, but as ever the legislation is way behind what the tech companies are doing and it isn't really seen as a 'vote winner', which increasingly drives what governments do. Also things like GDPR do help a bit but you could argue the ship has well and truly sailed.

Thanks for the explanation

It's not something that's ever going to cause a serious issue between us but it makes it bloody hard work organising surprise treats when you're being undermined by the tech you use to plan them

 

[clubchamp98]

Most smart TVs are wasted on people.
Like my car it has things I have never heard of.
But it’s hard to buy a basic tv now or a decent car that is just a car not a portable computer system.

 

[Hobbit]

Use quite a number of the functions on our smart tv. Really need to get a keyboard instead of faffing about with the remote.

 

[PJ87]

Thanks for the explanation

It's not something that's ever going to cause a serious issue between us but it makes it bloody hard work organising surprise treats when you're being undermined by the tech you use to plan them

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