Labor government joining liberal for not understanding technology once again, maybe this thread can get back on track and not be the tech support thread its become
The premise of this thread ignores the concept of āneed to knowā but older people certainly understand the concept of āreturn on investmentā.
Like its great to have the goal of a 100% understanding of the internet but an older person needs to know how it works as it relates to them. If they donāt understand it, they need to outsource services to resolve their issues. This is particularly the case where those millions of boomer dollars are at risk of being drained from their accounts.
I have a mate who worked on the internet backbone in the UK, designed networks for IT in mission critical systems, ran internet nameservers, mailservers and www servers etc etc. However current regulations prevented him from legally wiring an Ethernet UTP cable in his own house, because only an electrical tradie or apprentice was legally allowed to do that.
The world has gone crazy. I guarantee the number of tradies that install these cables who āunderstand the internet ā would be close to zero, but then again, connecting 8 coloured wires in a certain order and crimping the plug is all they āneed to knowā
Factually incorrect, stephen conroys internet filter did not work
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For any old people here who donāt understand the internet, be aware that there is a small but finite risk to the LEO satellites encircling the earth, and by consequence the worldwide internet coverage we now enjoy.
Thereās this situation, the Kessler effect, which is now at the threshold. Satellites need to manoeuvre every now and then to maintain space between them. Collisions may now cause an avalanche effect whereby debris that cannot be manoeuvred causes more collisions, more debris.
Since we have undersea cables, the result for most people will be slower connections, for remote users, forget connecting to Bomberblitz via satellites.
This is fully described clearly enough for old people who dont understand the internet by a guy called Anton Petrov on You Tube for all you wonderful people.
Was he the guy we protected from the Soviets back in 1954?
Do the young ones not know that us oldies invented the internet.
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then why donāt you know how to use it
we do, better than you, we look at more than Instagram.
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I donāt understand this threadā¦
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facebook feeds disagree with this narrative
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The oldies are the facebook users, the young ones have moved on.
I suspect the undersea cables would do the job just fine in the absence of Starlink satellites. In fact, your Starlink service in Australia connects to a land based bandwidth anyway.
The bigger risk for all our computers is solar radiation, which the Earthās magnetic field protects us from. However, when the Earth shifts poles again, which is due anytime now, and could take a few years, or 30 years to complete, the magnetic protection we now enjoy will be absent for a period of time, and much of our electronic devices and infrastructure could be destroyed
As for space debris, thereās a large database of current space debris, and every time a rocket is launched, they need to chart a path between known debris. In 1983, a 0.2mm paint fleck created a 0.5mm pit and nearly penetrated the 5cm multi-layered armoured glass window of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Australia has a laser radar that tracks and adds newly found debris to add to the database. The tracking laser can also be refocused to burn and eliminate small LEO space debris. I read an article about it a few years ago.
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A 10 year old thread still shows the comprehension skills of some older blitz posters.
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True, and also shows the ignorance of the younger ones.
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Sometimes I think Iād be happier if I understood less about the internet.
ā¦ or if we have another Carrington event. The last was in the 1850ās but the next will do orders of magnitude more damage.
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True. Thereās always a risk, anytime.
But imagine, no protective magnetic field around Earth for months, to a decade. Keeping our current way of life could become very challenging, if not impossible.
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Yes, but there could be some time to prepare for that. There would be less than a day after the warning signs to prepare for a Carrington event.
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I need to start sorting through thousands of photos as I put them onto a cloud or had drive. To do this, Iād like to have my own computer, rather than use my work one.
What are some specs I should consider or look at having in this computer? Itās just going to be for managing photos, basic stuff like email etc.
Also, if anyone has used an AI tool to sort photos that are going to be dumped on from multiple sources and media types, would be great to know