Just don’t hire the losers if they can’t do the job… If, in fact, it prerequisite to and in their job description. If they lied on their application, that’s grounds for termination. A lot of them try to fake it til they make it. B.S.
Agree though about the attitude, some folks (young and old) I know including immediate family claim that they can do everything on the phone and don’t need a PC. Well let them show me how they can work on spreadsheets on a damn phone.
I think that since PC towers kinda went away and Microsoft took most of our ability to manipulate things the PC lost it’s appeal to most folks. I do not care for small/ slim profile stuff that is hard to work on. All in ones, if the monitor fails you gotta throw the whole thing out.
I still got my tower, and I still convert YouTube to MP3 and burn CDs. But the last time I held and office job that required Word, Power Point and Excell was 1999. Have two laptops, old school tower (Originally Win 7) and an inherited all in one.
Been working with computers since 1980, and still know just enough to tread water and peek and poke til I figure out problems with them.
As much as you and I agree on many things, I’m the opposite, never come here on my phone just my laptop.
My thumbs are too big to text on the phone and china girl in the phone does not understand my Joisey accent for talk to text
I still put my PC’s together, still very popular with most gamer’s. I have not bought a production PC besides couple laptops in 35 years I guess. Had a Packard Bell PC back then. Just buy parts and put them together. No bloatware, no nonsense.
Me, too on the iron sights. I’m too cheap to spend $300 on a Red Dot sight for a $700 gun! There is something purist about iron sights. No batteries, nothing to break.
Althoughdo a lot of stuff on the cell phone, it’s so much faster on the desktop or laptop. Keeping track of information is so much easier on the PC. Formatting Word documents or spreadsheets would be like pulling teeth on the cell to copy and paste for emails or other information sharing. I tried the spreadsheet on the phone and it takes forever to do anything, although viewing is not extremely bad.
I think red dot solves a big problem for folks with fuzzy near vision, though, because it would be hard to focus on front sight, or any in some cases at arms length - especially rifles.
I do love a bare bones out the box gun though. They are pure perfection, in basic form. Lightweight, streamlined and ready.
The one thing I can’t get past is rails and red dots on a classic revolver. That is just wrong.
I will be 83 next month, retired in 2018. While in the USAF I was a radar repairman. Later I was involved in subsea navigation and oceanographic instrumentation for 14 years, where we used HP basic based technical computers. My initial exposure to MSDOS 3.0 occurred when we replaced a Telex machine with a PC (so much easier to type on screen than on tape). When the mouse was introduced, it simplified remembering all of the DOS commands. Windows arrived and the rest is history. Over the years I learned how to use all of the Office programs and was forced to learn the early Apple versions for a brief period (Yuck!). I built or modified a number of MS based desktops and one laptop. When the original Motorola Droid was introduced, I rooted it and was a Beta tester of different programmer’s updates. This continued with the Bionic and Samsung 4 (until the manufacturers locked up all of the backdoor entries). By that time, the official Android software had incorporated most of the unofficial features. Today, I have a home network of 6 Windows based PCs, (2 on WIN11 and 4 on WIN10). My wife and I both use Pixel cell phones. I primarily use my smart phone for calls, messaging, navigation, reference sources and appointments. Although watching reels can be very addictive and hard on old eyes… Being retired lets me do whatever I want.
I still run a laptop for some stuff. Mostly chirp radio programming software. That laptop rarely gets connected to the interned. It runs Lenix Mint (not recalling the version) that is so outdated it locked up the processor until I manually reset the date/time.
I’ve got a few tablets to send encrypted (know codes/encryption protocols) through radio to radio for text files. 7-10 second data squelch like an old dial up modem vs 2+ min of talking.
Mostly use my phone for everything else.
Don’t confuse the yougins w/words like 10-key or typing speed WPM questions. I still have analog (pen & paper) lists of urls floating around.
I have a smartphone primarily because some of my family think that text messaging is the best way to communicate. It is nice to have a camera in my pocket all the time, and I am a podcast addict. Having software that automatically downloads podcasts and queues them up for me to listen to while I work is awesome. I also stream YouTube talking head videos to listen to. Read books on the phone. Anything else I do on my PC. I can’t imagine how anyone can get actual work done on a phone. I know there are people who run their online businesses on their phones.
I am 74 and use my PC every day. My desktop is a small server with a hex-core processor, 32GB of RAM, and about 50TB of storage, half of which is backups. I have two 30-inch monitors attached and would have more if I had the space. All running on Linux. I can’t imagine replacing all this with a phone.
… Because nobody runs their businesses on Microsoft!
Hells, of the 22 injection molding machines that I have been charged with caring for, 20 run their firmware in a Windows Runtime Environment - and Two run in a very Unix-ey custom configuration of Linux.
You wanna take a quick guess at which machines give me the most out-of-the-blue absolutely-no-reason-for-this-crap software issues?
It might not be what you think.
This is not an endorsement of Winblows. Because that sucks. Just an acknowledgement of the sucktasticiosity of the state of “Software Engineering Solutions” in the world today.
What also amazes me is the number of folks with 5 years of photos on their phones and they never back it up. Then they scream rape when their phone dies. Have to keep after my wife to backup to the cloud, but I also transfer photos to the PC every 6 months. She complains about absense of space on her phone sd card. I just roll my eyes and say, “Give me your phone.”
I kept up some Linux pc’s for another company, and hate it. Linux suffers due to a lot of crappy independent apps. Hate Microsoft, but they got their crap together with Win 10, but got greedy and raped us all with Win 11.
A phone is the swiss army knife of comm. Phone, internet, camera, navigation and whatever apps.
It is extremely handy and portable.
It doesn’t replace, just it keeps folks in the loop wherever.
I use a bluetooth ear piece when driving. Newer vehicles connect to phone.
But, being from from a much earlier era, know that while young folks go into vapor lock without it, they will never know the exponential level of freedom without this electronic dog leash…
I use phone and physical GPS but still have paper maps of the SouthEast. Did have an atlas, but wife tossed it. She said I never used it. Well, I haven’t driven out of the south in quite a while. GPS and phone gets you there, but a lot of folks have no earthly idea where in hell they are or how the got there. Years ago my ex’s sister (a school teacher from Louisiana, transplanted to Jersey and taught in Manhattan) drove back down south to P.C., Florida. I asked her if she traveled down on 95 or 85. She said that she had no clue, she just went where the GPS told her to go.
Big help and convenience, but at a price figuratively and literally.
Yes, hypocritically, partly anyway, I say these things with phone in hand, it’s like the Bellamy Brother’s Song (I’m an old Hippie) - ‘Should I hang on to the old or should I grab on to the new’…
Don’t feel lost. Many of us have been working with PC’ s when it was a green text screen and hard drive wasn’t an option. Before Apple even introduced a mouse!
But the last time I held and office job that required Word, Power Point and Excell was 1999. Have two laptops, old school tower (Originally Win 7) and an inherited all in one.
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sucks. Just an acknowledgement of the sucktasticiosity of the state of “Software Engineering Solutions” in the world today.