I’m quite fond of the electric grid. And I’d love to be part of the “fast internet” grid. But I’m strongly opposed to not only HAVING spies in my home but PAYING their vendors to place them there.
Reminds me, in 10 minutes I have to check the charge on the battery for my phone. I do it twice a day. My app tells me, I’m up to 12 or 15 minutes a week!!
I spent 38 years on the bleeding edge of technology. It got old having to learn a new field every 2-3 years. Now, unless I really need tech, I do without.
A family group was recently discovered who had died over the winter trying to live “off the grid”. My family spent generations trying to get “on the grid”. These days we are all interdependent. We have to make the grid more efficient and planet-friendly.
There was a National Lampoon parody song about a commune that wintered in the Rockies and “ran out of things to smoke and eat and say”.
Your smart phone is a tool, just like a hammer. You don’t carry your hammer around with you all day do you? When you are done with your job, put your tools away.
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my phone.” —Bjarne Stroustrup
Premise: The average person makes many major purchases, such as a home, a car, a tv, a major appliance, shop tools, vacation home, etc.
?? _How is it that none of the sellers can later notify him/her that they must give up those things because there are new models and the mfgs will no longer support the original purchases?_
And yet, cell phone and software publishers are allowed to do that at will, resulting in massive discards of perfectly useful digital items, supposedly ‘outdated’ media, with great inconvenience and costs to users.
In case, you’re wondering, I’m agin’ it, and would like to see some regulation to prohibit that activity. Would also – with no hope of it ever happening – like to see those companies return unused fees and unit costs to those forced to make the changes.
H-m-m-m-m as I reread this I’m picturing a snowball in a environmental hot spot with no chance of survival.
Ratkin 11 months ago
pre-prepped
rmremail 11 months ago
And remember, Eddie votes, and is a demographic actively courted by both parties.
sirbadger 11 months ago
For cartoon characters, the grid is graph paper.
Erse IS better 11 months ago
I’m quite fond of the electric grid. And I’d love to be part of the “fast internet” grid. But I’m strongly opposed to not only HAVING spies in my home but PAYING their vendors to place them there.
einarbt 11 months ago
Back to the caves …
Imagine 11 months ago
Ignorance is bliss?
Cornelius Noodleman 11 months ago
Was this comic created by AI?
boniface22 11 months ago
Very apt.
cdward 11 months ago
If you never had it, you don’t miss it. Fortunately, people adapt. Once it’s gone, you learn how to get by without. At least enough do.
keenanthelibrarian 11 months ago
A cat, a pipe (that’s always lit) and a drink – Eddie’s happy. Oh, and a boat. Who wouldn’t be?
NeedaChuckle Premium Member 11 months ago
Reminds me, in 10 minutes I have to check the charge on the battery for my phone. I do it twice a day. My app tells me, I’m up to 12 or 15 minutes a week!!
Zebrastripes 11 months ago
Don’t give in, stop buying expensive gadgets just because everybody else does….think about it! Just think how much more money you would have?
Points to ponder
Zebrastripes 11 months ago
LOVE the Kitty! ☺️
MS72 11 months ago
We’re in a diner, so it must be a GRIDDLE!
DaBump Premium Member 11 months ago
Yep, best way to get off drugs is never to start in the first place.
david_42 11 months ago
I spent 38 years on the bleeding edge of technology. It got old having to learn a new field every 2-3 years. Now, unless I really need tech, I do without.
bclark42 11 months ago
If that’s true, it’s no wonder the Big Orange Head smiles all the time.
nosirrom 11 months ago
I still have a drawer full of paper maps, just in case.
daynage21 11 months ago
As a New England native, I love the accent Wiley conveys so well.
Count Olaf Premium Member 11 months ago
You make Waffles on the Grid, eh yah’.
rugeirn 11 months ago
What we have lost is the ability to entertain ourselves out of what we have within ourselves and the ability to endure boredom patiently.
ManiacEx 11 months ago
Can’t miss what you don’t know is there.
mistercatworks 11 months ago
A family group was recently discovered who had died over the winter trying to live “off the grid”. My family spent generations trying to get “on the grid”. These days we are all interdependent. We have to make the grid more efficient and planet-friendly.
There was a National Lampoon parody song about a commune that wintered in the Rockies and “ran out of things to smoke and eat and say”.
Bruce1253 11 months ago
Your smart phone is a tool, just like a hammer. You don’t carry your hammer around with you all day do you? When you are done with your job, put your tools away.
Alexander the Good Enough 11 months ago
As the saying goes among the IT cognoscenti, “Dumb people use smartphones, smart people use dumb phones!”
ladykat 11 months ago
Eddie and Paulie live a simple life.
DM2860 11 months ago
First, get a boat.
Second, start visiting other worlds with it.
KEA 11 months ago
Just saw a story where a family of 3 tried to live off the grid and died of starvation.
KEA 11 months ago
btw… James Burke did a TV series in 1978 that explained the Technology Trap we live in. (it’s only gotten “trappier”)
preacherman Premium Member 11 months ago
Why even ask Eddie, the fossil fuel burning sailor, about living off the grid?
Can't Sleep 11 months ago
We’d all be happier if we’d never heard of Elon Musk.
anomaly 11 months ago
If you like reading a screen, you’ll probably like reading books, too.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 10 months ago
“I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my phone.” —Bjarne Stroustrup
sandpiper 10 months ago
While we are on the subject, here’s my question.
Premise: The average person makes many major purchases, such as a home, a car, a tv, a major appliance, shop tools, vacation home, etc.
?? _How is it that none of the sellers can later notify him/her that they must give up those things because there are new models and the mfgs will no longer support the original purchases?_
And yet, cell phone and software publishers are allowed to do that at will, resulting in massive discards of perfectly useful digital items, supposedly ‘outdated’ media, with great inconvenience and costs to users.
In case, you’re wondering, I’m agin’ it, and would like to see some regulation to prohibit that activity. Would also – with no hope of it ever happening – like to see those companies return unused fees and unit costs to those forced to make the changes.
H-m-m-m-m as I reread this I’m picturing a snowball in a environmental hot spot with no chance of survival.
haasmeister 10 months ago
I’ve retired and I no longer work on any committees, public or private. I am very happy not knowing all those extra details. Yes, ignorance is bliss.
SofaKing 10 months ago
I visited New England a few years ago, I couldn’t find this diner anywhere.
Jingles 10 months ago
one power line, a telephone party-line (remember?), and one tv station we could barely pick up, 40 miles away. it wasn’t off-grid, but dam near.
dimndno 10 months ago
I really love the conversations between these three!
198.23.5.11 10 months ago
You’re off the grid when you spend two thirds of your life lost at sea—-whether you’re on water OR land.