What is something you can’t live without, technology wise that saves you time?

I have to say it’s my virtual assistant I’ve made. It saves me a lot of time with making reminders and such alarms for meetings or interviews, music etc.

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  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    6 months ago

    I mean, “tech wise” is incredibly generic. Electricity itself is pretty much essential and something I’d have a hard time living without.

    As for more recent tech, the internet. I can “live without”, but a lot of stuff I do for entertainment and self education needs it. There’s also the discovery, finding out about new stuff that interests me, that’d be much harder without the internet.

    Even if you removed several sites, if the 'net was something like it was back in 1994, there’d still be enough content and people around to get good amounts of information back and forth, plus file sharing.

    As for time saved, just think about trying to discover, not even acquire or read, just know about, some 2 or 3 books in an “obscure” subject, something that your circle of contacts is unlikely to know anything about, that local book stores probably won’t have. Same applies for games or media that said circle of contacts are unlikely to know about. Basically, you have to take the dive and explore and, depending on what you were looking for, you’d come empty handed, or have to contend with a “better than nothing” alternative.

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      6 months ago

      What I can learn in 10 minutes courtesy of the internet is staggering.

      Even if I was at a library, standing in front of the card catalog, it would take longer to even find a book/periodical to even start a search on a subject.

      Add my pocket computer (yea, we call them smart phones) with note-taking apps, and what I can study/learn and keep in a searchable personal DB of sorts is just amazing. It’s something that was talked about before personal computers were even ubiquitous, and it arrived incredibly quickly since then.

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      6 months ago

      Electricity itself is pretty much essential and something I’d have a hard time living without.

      Let me agree with you 100% here!
      The taming of electromagnetism should be right up there with the taming of fire, agriculture, the alphabet and the printing press, as one of the most significant milestones in human history. And it is still an ongoing process.