Maybe I'm being naive, but how the fuck is basic shit like a fridge going to sustain people career wise? It stays cool, the end. With that and other niche stuff, it really doesn't seem to complex. Unless they are designing software used by engineeers or scientists it's probably a waste of talent imo.
Someone has to write the code for the IoT bullshit, and why kill yourself in those big companies? Besides, one thing I've found in life is that when everyone is looking one way the wise man looks in another way to make a killing.
You say that, but companies these days like stuffing """smart""" electronics on even mundane kitchenware. Karen wants to control the thermostat on her phone, Joe Sixpack wants that toaster toasting when he wakes up. And someone needs to do the gruntwork of coding and making sure all these embedded software works as intended. Niche, yes. Necessary, also yes. Since you're not competing with Microsoft or Amazon for these, work is pretty much guaranteed.
One astute observation about modern fridges: why must my refrigerator be an unsecured WiFi access point?
Oh fuck everything about that. I like my refrigerators dumb and frigid like a trailer park meth head.
It has to be becuase your washing machine is... And your heater... Your TV... Everything. It's progress apparently. Really it's probably for energy companies to spy on you, maybe they will add more telemetry in the future to further invade privacy. Think of it, we can have a built in barcode scanner to monitor things you buy, then it could use an algorithm to tell your Amazon account you like X, you buy X every Y days, so just auto order more. It will be sold as a convenient way to conduct shopping. If you want real fear, there is a book called "The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg. It talked about a company where they began gathering data on womens purchases*, and they could then tell what trimester of pregnancy a woman was in based on her buying habits, and they altered advertising to thinks they were likely to desire at that time.
PCs no longer have DVD drives built it, physical media is viewed as obsolete due to services/the cloud. Eventually all the stuff you own will break, or be too outdated to keep functioning. Then you're only left with the modern "smart" devices. I fucking hate it.
No, John, I really just want to scan your tag for my Amazon Prime account. I'll still pay you. We'll just sit here for two hours so they can geo-log our transaction and location.
Amazon, google and apple already know all you buy because of their smartspeakers and phones that are always listening, and because they own the devices and browsers where you search for everything
My kingdom for a version of Windows 7 that still is being kept updated.
I feel like this about XP.
2000. XP is 2000 with a plasticy baby blue Fisher-Price UI. 2000 is the greatest.
The only thing I will give "the cloud" is that it has made off site back ups easy and accessible to the consumer and small businesses.
I've slowly warmed to Win10, so long as you use the usual techniques for bypassing MicroShaft spyware shit, strip it down a bit with easily available mods, and don't actually pay for it.
