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Living with old tech and compromises

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We have our little projects don’t we? 😁
That vintage chrome Vitamix would have been fun to restore. But my wife knows how it will go- I will spend hours on the internet finding service manuals and watching YouTube’s on how to take it apart, weeks with it torn apart in my workbench, ordering rare NLA parts and accessories for it, then a second one would arrive (for the parts of course) which had different options, then 4 months later I would finally have it on the counter in all its mirror chrome glory and she would be back at the wooden spoon again.
 
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I love the old microscopes but they just can't "hold a candle" to the new ones ...
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I love the old microscopes but they just can't "hold a candle" to the new ones ...
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Yeah, I don’t want my Pathologist using the first one just because he/she thinks it’s cool.
 
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Yeah, I don’t want my Pathologist using the first one just because he/she thinks it’s cool.

But using the old-time microscope helps you slow down and really be in the moment, meditating mindfully on the whole experience, while also contemplating your connection with those pioneering medical professionals who literally wrote the book on pathology.

Sorry, I'm working on some copywriting to sell to Hodinkee when they get into the vintage optics game.
 
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😁 ….8+ Still going strong and we’ve got history.

I contract for the government and I had an iPhone 7 until december last year.
 
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But using the old-time microscope helps you slow down and really be in the moment, meditating mindfully on the whole experience, while also contemplating your connection with those pioneering medical professionals who literally wrote the book on pathology.

Sorry, I'm working on some copywriting to sell to Hodinkee when they get into the vintage optics game.
...Reports will be then typed on hand-crafted parchment using a 1937 Underwood and delivered personally by a Lucky Strike-smoking physician in a long white coat, who will offer his sympathy and refer you to an oncologist with a woefully inadequate array of heavily-toxic chemotherapy agents at his disposal.*

*results may vary.

Sounds like something right up their alley. Happy to consult on your efforts.
 
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I contract for the government and I had an iPhone 7 until december last year.

I just replaced my 6...
 
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I just replaced my 6...
The 6 was the perfect size. I wanted to keep mine forever but it died on me.
 
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Yesterday I gave an injection to a 70 year old guy. Real nice guy just in a bad spot. But it’s very important I time the injections right so I spoke into my phone, saying his name and reminding me to give him another injection on the 22nd. My phone repeating everything and he started freaking out.

I got scared for a minute cause I thought maybe it was a reaction to the meds but he was just amazed I had that short conversation with my phone. They are so ubiquitous i just kinda thought everyone was familiar with what they can do. Kinda funny.

I am the smoothie king, fresh banana, strawberry milk and ice in my low tech blender Beats any 15 dollar smoothly I’ve had while out.

By the way I just found out what the snippet tool thing is on windows. Can’t believe it’s been there all along and I never knew. We were having trouble copy and pasting some info at work so I called my wife who works in tech got the lowdown on the snippet. Showed my (2) coworkers they think I’m some IT godtier being. I’ll play it off for a few days.

I’m not old yet, but I’m closer to old than young at this point, I look at kids today and I wonder what kind of tech they will be utilizing. That which today we think of “amazing” will probably be the equivalent of a cheap blender.
 
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I just replaced my 6...
I'd still use my 1st gen, clicky wheel ipod if the battery still worked. Old tech was solid!
 
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The 6 was the perfect size. I wanted to keep mine forever but it died on me.

Agreed. It was perfect for fitting in a pocket, but I do appreciate the larger screen when reading things on the 14...
 
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the way I just found out what the snippet tool thing is on windows. Can’t believe it’s been there all along and I never knew. We were having trouble copy and pasting some info at work so I called my wife who works in tech got the lowdown on the snippet. Showed my (2) coworkers they think I’m some IT godtier being. I’ll play it off for a few days.

Nice find. Move up to godtier snipping with ShareX. It allows you so much flexibility and more. 😀
 
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Nice find. Move up to godtier snipping with ShareX. It allows you so much flexibility and more. 😀
Oh cool I’m looking it up my poor coworker spent three days trying to complete a referral she finished in a half hour once we found and figured snippet out, this shareX you speak of may make me king.
 
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I'd still use my 1st gen, clicky wheel ipod if the battery still worked. Old tech was solid!
I gave my six to a family who was having tough times when I upgraded to 9. They are still using it. Apple is impressive although Samsungs may last that long I just haven’t had one. I got my wife one seems fine to me.
 
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Used my Samsung S6 for 7+ years until I had to get a new phone because the S6 battery was crapping out. It was the sealed version so battery replacement wasn't an option. And there was now drive space left, so I kept having to offload photos and videos to make room for new ones (the sealed version of the S6 did not take SD cards). The S6 is still on duty as a remote control for some stereo components, but I have to keep it plugged in.
 
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I think of our employees that have only been with us for 9-10 years as just getting out of the starting gate 😁
 
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I’m not old yet, but I’m closer to old than young at this point, I look at kids today and I wonder what kind of tech they will be utilizing. That which today we think of “amazing” will probably be the equivalent of a cheap blender.

My perception is quite the reverse, I dispair of the younger generation for their total lack of knowledge, sure they may know how the latest app works but they have zero idea of the technology involved or life outside of an app, their long term survival in the real world is bleak indeed.

I grew up in the tech world at the cutting edge and in recent years have looked at the current crop of post grad engineers entering the tech workforce and am appalled at the lack of analytical skills and in-depth knowledge of the tech they use unless of course an app can do it all for them.

So don't dispair your sum of knowledge and skills leaves them in the dust.
 
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