• Flying SquidOP
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        71 year ago

        Even learning to broadcast programming from your laptop to your TV has a learning curve. Meanwhile, you can just push a button on the TV and get to Netflix. The problem is that now half the space is going to be taken up with ads, and not even relevant ones.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      If thats the price of freedom then I think one should definitely become tech savvy.

      Besides, isn’t saying that you’re not tech savvy in today’s tech world kind of admitting that you’re willfully ignorant and only buy tech stuff for show?

      • Flying SquidOP
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        31 year ago

        You think people only buy TVs for show? That’s a very strange thing to suggest. People buy TVs so they can watch shows. For over 70 years, all they’ve had to do is turn it on and maybe turn a knob or push a couple of buttons and that’s it. Expecting people to learn more than that is too much for many people. And saying you aren’t tech savvy isn’t some shameful thing except to people who are tech savvy. Even if it does mean someone is ignorant, that doesn’t mean they deserve to be taken advantage of.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          You think people only buy TVs for show?

          Certainly in my country, people who don’t know how to setup a computer still choose to buy one.

          People buy TVs so they can watch shows

          Maybe the boomer generation. I am a millenial running a pihole and subscribing to OTT. This is true of others in my generation and younger.

          And saying you aren’t tech savvy isn’t some shameful thing except to people who are tech savvy.

          Well it’s not shameful in that it requires ridicule. I just think it’s a bit embarrassing for me personally that a lot of people don’t bother learning tech stuff. It’s similar to people declaring that they don’t read books. In this day and age, being tech savvy is kind of required to navigate a lot of society.

          Even if it does mean someone is ignorant, that doesn’t mean they deserve to be taken advantage of.

          I know that, you know that, the companies exploiting the ignorant and elderly know that. So there’s no better cure than for the ignorant to learn.

          • Flying SquidOP
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            11 year ago

            Still sounds like you’re blaming the people being taken advantage of because they don’t know things you do.