Tech related - I have never?

Tefal said:
Do you use a youtube account or do you just hurl yourself at the mercy of the algorithm every time?
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Mercy of the algorithm I guess. Although it seems to be pretty good with tracking my movements regardless. 95% of my 'content' is Cocomelon and Wiggles (with a 2yo in the house, you can imagine why), so it's really only showing me children's music.
 
Tefal said:
Wait till you hear what the non techy people do, they actualy build massive buildings to go and watch other people play games, and pay hundreds even thousands for tickets or for subscriptions to watch at home.

They even go so far as to spend money dressing thier kids up in the same clothes as the players.


It's mental man the things they do, swear to god the other day I even saw somone sat in thier house watching somone gardening on tv, instead of just going in thier own garden!
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This is likely the eventual future I guess :d

HangTime said:
Owned an Apple product.
Played Counterstrike or Final Fantasy.
Controlled any smart home devices using a speaker.
Owned a wireless keyboard or mouse.
Used TikTok.
Tweeted.
Subscribed to Netflix or Spotify.
Paid for goods with a smartphone.
Bought a PAYG smartphone.
Bought anything on iTunes.
Mined or otherwise acquired cryptocurrency.


If you are watching "worst of" compilations on cringe channels, it's to be expected that they would be bad/exaggerated. It's like if someone compiled a thread of "worst mrk posts" it probably wouldn't be indicative of the typical standard of your posts.
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Whilst this is true, just a casual browse on Twitch reveals it's not exclusive to compilations. Also, my joke threads are the thing of legend, how dare you!
 
Taken out a mobile phone contract.
Spent more than ~£50 a year on mobile phone calls*.

Owned an apple product.

Water cooled anything (other than the garden...).

Played WoW (I was a UO player and the mechanics of Warcraft/need to spend days at a time to do anything put me off:p).


*Every now and then my ISP call up to try and get me to take out a mobile contact with them, and they always seem slightly disconcerted when my answer to "how much do you spend a Month on PAYG" is "around £2 a month, £20 a year"
 
Never bought a TV subscription (Netflix, Amazon, sky etc)
Used ticktock or Snapchat
Completed any computer game (I get bored)
Used a smartwatch to pay for stuff
Registered to any other forum!
Used any video editing software


All in all not that much of a luddite really. Have a lot of smarthome devices, and like to pay for stuff with my phone. And unfortunately I have bought apple products in the past :(
 
Freefaller said:
Never bought a TV subscription (Netflix, Amazon, sky etc)
Used ticktock or Snapchat
Completed any computer game (I get bored)
Used a smartwatch to pay for stuff
Registered to any other forum!
Used any video editing software


All in all not that much of a luddite really. Have a lot of smarthome devices, and like to pay for stuff with my phone. And unfortunately I have bought apple products in the past :(
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Well, most forums are a mess nowadays. Full of advert placements that force you to disable them if you're registered. AVForums were like that from what I can remember. After a few days of running any adblockers, sections of the forums would be blocked off to you. In between them all trying to be Facebook clones.
 
Some of you here have some weird pride of not using certain apps or services. What’s the big idea here? If you don’t want it then don’t use it but making it sound like you’re one upping some random teenager by not using TikTok is hilarious.
 
Used Twitter
Used Instagram
Used Snapchat
Used Tick Tock
Used Facebook
Understood this Influencers thing
Mined bitcoin
Rage quit…..ok this one is a lie.
 
My friend Carter says

Carter said:
I’ve never been insane or put my baby on a plane
With a suitcase that’s alive and ticking
And your honour, I confess that I’ve never tasted meths
Or hid a gun in a box of fried chicken

Never been to Amsterdam, left my heart in Vietnam
Or sold gum on the streets of Mexico
Never smuggled pot or been murdered in my squat
Two stories from the top of a no-go
Go

I’ve never had to steal, sell my body for a meal
Cigarettes, alcohol or drugs
I’ve never had a tattoo or a scar that wouldn’t heal
Pump it up, Jack, pump it up, Jack, pump it up

I’ve never been on strike or a speeding motorbike
Been propositioned, beaten up or mugged
I’ve got 20/20 vision but I’ve never seen the light
Pump it up, Jack, pump it up, Jack, pump it up


And if you’re looking for trouble
You came to the wrong place

I’ve never gone cold turkey in a shed in Albuquerque
Or played chicken on the railway line
Never been a litter bug, given head, taken drugs
Pump it up Jack, pump it up, Jack, pump it up

Crack that whip across my thigh
Stick a needle in my eye
Cross my heart and hope to die
I’ve lived a sheltered life

Never been to Amsterdam, left my heart in Vietnam
Or sold gum on the streets of Mexico
Never smuggled pot or been murdered in my squat
Two stories from the top of a no-go
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He's not really into tech he's lived a Sheltered Life
 
Reading this thread, there's a few things I can add.

Bought anything off Amazon for the last 9 years. Because ... NZ.
Watched a streamer or know the name of any popular Youtuber.
Played Minecraft
Visited 4Chan website.

And if this thread existed 3-4 months ago, I could've added - Paid for any video/TV subscription service. Once I bought the LG C1, I figured I CBF downloading illegally anymore and messing around with NAS drives or USBs or PLEX or whatever. Now we have - Disney+, NEON (NZ thing), Apple+, Netflix and Prime. Through various deals and what-have-you we get through my wife's work and work phone plans, we only really pay for Disney and Prime at the moment. Something like a tenner a month. Can't begrudge that.
 
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