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  • bluewing@sh.itjust.worksOPtoTechnology@lemmy.worldSitting up and waiting.
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    1 day ago

    The technology, which I didn’t get to–my bad it was 1:30am, has to do with being awakened by my phone sending me an alert to the possibility of 90mph winds along with possible flooding due to very heavy rains.

    It might not seem like much to you, but when you live in a very rural area in the middle of a forest, we don’t get the niceties of more urban folks. Ignoring the years I spent as a medic and fire fighter in this area and getting my pager pinged for every weather watch from the county dispatch, (information the general populous doesn’t get), This is a new thing for us. Now, if only cell service wasn’t so poor here even more people could get such warnings.

    And my automatic backup generator is still running and powering my house. A bit of tech kit you probably don’t need, but I do. So my lights are on, the air conditioning is working and so is my electric kettle to make tea. It might be all day or longer before the co-op can restore power.




  • If a throw down on cool and even more old and useless skills learned in schools is what you want, I’m for today. Not only did I need to learn learn about the Dewey Decimal System and cursive hand writing, (as a lefty I was nearly forced to learn to write right handed in school), but I had to learn how to use a slide rule. Calculators weren’t around until I was about 17. Now everyone carries one and can’t do any math.

    Television as a working concept was solidly in place by the 1920s. They just needed to agree on a standard, make the tech cheap enough, and get broadcast stations built. Had WW2 not interrupted things, we might have had television as a bigger commercial thing sooner than the 1950s/1960s. The clipping does look like the style of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics of the 1930’s era though.