• users enjoy zero-training appliances at home

    From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Arelor on Sun Apr 17 11:57:00 2022
    Hello Arelor!

    ** On Saturday 16.04.22 - 08:17, Arelor wrote to Nightfox:

    The problem is that many domestic users enjoy zero-training
    appliances at home and, as a result, will demand everything
    else being zero-training (and will regard anything which is
    not as outdated tech).

    There is a TV commercial here by Rogers that depicts a family
    looking for a specific TV program. The "young" people are
    stumped and can't remember on which channel is "The Book of
    Bobba Fett" is on. Mom enters the room, grabs the remote, and
    just talks to it! "Find, Book of Bobba Fett". Instantly, the
    film shows up on screen.

    Also, I have found the people who uses a smartphone or a
    tablet instead of a regular computer are usually in the
    Very Very Poor demographic bracket, of the sort who barely
    manages to pay for rent. I think many of these would have a
    regular system if they could afford one.

    There are gov't programs here that provide free or inexpensive
    smartphones for low-income people. Many of those same
    households (the buildings look quite rundown and delipidated)
    have satellite dishes on their rooftops and large TV screens
    shining through the windows.

    ..I don't need a social network where everybody is in. I
    need a communication platform where my friends are. If my
    friends are at some small IRC server I host under my bed I
    need no Twitter :-) Besides, silo-styled platforms are a
    step backwards. A good plaform should be able to link you
    with friends who are at different platforms, pretty much
    the same way you can talk to a gmail user using any other
    email provider.

    Or, pretty much how you can link to your friends through FTN
    echomail and not be concerned whether they are using Linux,
    MacOS or Windows, or smartphone, tablet or a DT, ..or,
    Telegram! ;)

    --- OpenXP 5.0.51
    * Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to 2twisty on Mon Apr 18 10:59:16 2022
    Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
    By: 2twisty to Arelor on Mon Apr 18 2022 10:09 am

    That said, I despise MacOS due to Apple's general "do it our way or piss off" attitude (that Microsoft seems to have adopted lately). I no longer own any Macs or Apple products because of my disdain for their inflated prices and walled garden approach to apps. Android isn't much better these days, sadly.

    That's also one reason I tend not to use Apple products. I've always mainly been a PC user (originally used DOS in the early 90s, then went to Windows, and lately I also use Linux). I've bought a couple Macs in the years since they moved to Intel, but I never used them enough to want to switch to Mac. Years ago I also used to have an iPod Touch but no longer have one since I started using Android smartphones.

    I find it interesting that some people have moved from Windows to Mac and swear by it though.. I've heard people say they've had all kinds of problems with Windows and now they use Mac and don't have to worry about all that. Personally I haven't had any big issues with Windows for a long time. I also tend to like building my own desktop PC, and you can generally get any hardware device working in Windows (and it seems Linux as well, to a large extent).

    Nightfox
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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to tenser on Thu Apr 21 11:19:46 2022
    On 22 Apr 2022, tenser said the following...

    I just tried again now, and no luck.
    ssh newuser@grex.org doesn't work.

    I just logged in. The machine is up; last rebooted three
    days ago. I'm sorry but I don't know what to tell you; have
    you tried logging in from a different IP address? Perhaps
    you're on a blacklisted IP block for some reason.

    I can't seem to access it from here either:

    nslookup grex.org

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: grex.org
    Address: 20.185.61.111


    ping grex.org

    Pinging grex.org [20.185.61.111] with 32 bytes of data:
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.
    Request timed out.

    Ping statistics for 20.185.61.111:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),


    Trying to telnet or SSH just times out as well trying from two different IPs.


    Jay

    ... I was attacked by a gang of mimes. They did unspeakable things to me!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 2022/04/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)
  • From tenser@21:1/101 to Warpslide on Fri Apr 22 08:48:08 2022
    All right, I'll poke around and see what I can find out.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)