A couch with a power outlet baffles me
Might as well have it if your couch has electric adjustments anyway…
This is why my couch has two of those wireless charging spots on a fold-out middle console. It already has power because it’s got two recliners built in, adding charging spots isn’t very difficult.
It baffles you that somebody might want to sit on the couch and charge their phone or pad or laptop?
Furniture can cover outlets making them less accessible. You then don’t need a 10’ cord to reach an outlet if it’s built in. It’s also in the same spot and easy to find the cord and port.
My headboard was cheap and came with an usb. It plugs into the outlet hidden by the bed. I now have a charging cord where I need it. Some of it is useful, some not so much.
It won’t always be done if people don’t want it. In the 80’s everything came with a clock. The old joke about the vcr flashing 12:00 is pretty accurate. Now many things don’t come with clocks in them. Heck last time I bought a Blu-ray player a decade or so ago, there was zero lights on it. Couldn’t tell if it was on or not. I hadn’t used it in months and switched over to that port on the tv and the movie start screen had been running the whole time. lol.
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Well, I realize that 1970s sounds like an age of dinosaurs to some people… But, people back then weren’t cavemen. They had electricity, batteries, video cameras, telephones.
The concept of an electric outlet in a couch is easy - not sure, but they might even had such things back then. Like to feed a lamp or something. USB is just low voltage and different connector, from the power transmission perspective.
The concept of a speakerphone with video signal is also easy. The only thing to grasp is that the devices and batteries became that miniature and efficient. Oh, and wireless.
Explaining that all video and voice recordings from all these neat devices are actually stored by a gigantic corporation, processed with voice and face recognition algorithms, and used to enrich personal profiles collected on all parties of the conversation to boost profits of said corporations, and many people even pay for this - THAT I would find complicated to explain.
XLR connectors and related systems have been around since the 50s. The precursors to USB, like ADB and PS/2, were being released commercially by the mid 80s. I agree that the concept would not have been mind blowing in the 70s.
Mobile phones wouldnt be strange by the 70’s. Two way handheld radios and car phones been around since the 40’s and the first cellphone was demonstrated in 1973.
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Yep, it’s the IoT aspect that would make their heads spin.
Wait, you have to charge those Spyware doorbells?
Only if they’re not hardwired in - lots of people where I live just stick them to their doors so there’s no wires.
Tfw the bell is stolen
If it’s hardwired in, it’s not significantly harder to steal than otherwise. Clipping a couple of wires connected to a doorbell transformer is significantly easier than dealing with whatever mechanism is used to release the doorbell from it’s attachment.
Also, you would be stealing a camera that will film it’s own theft and upload the footage on it’s way out.
Additionally, these devices aren’t exactly expensive anymore, not a whole lot of value in stealing them. Even if stolen, not a huge setback to buy another one.
There’s a security screw.
Weird way to refer to your bodyguard but ok
That’s my safety screw.
After all, it is on the bottom near the power.
There were a bunch of videos posted of people stealing them when they first came out.
The folks in this thread are misinterpreting the comment. It’s not that someone from 1970 wouldn’t understand the concept; it’s that they would rightfully think that it’s stupid and judge you for putting up with it.
The 70s might not want to throw shade…
That was just hold over food from the 50s. They were obsessed with gelatin back then, and plenty of them were still traumatizing us at family gatherings through the 80s.
What’s holding it together?
That’s twice I’ve posted that this week.Normally these aspic dishes look vile but I might be able to get down with this one, provided the contents were cooked well.
This is the food equivalent of a liminal space, I do not like it and I wish to shed blood over it.
Did anyone ever actually eat this sort of thing, or was it just the recipe book equivalent of a fashion show? Or perhaps it’s just regional. I sure as hell never ate that in the 70s.
It was ‘subtle’ punishment for abusive husbands.
Apparently my grandparents did in the 70s and thought themselves very futuristic for it. That being said my grandma is well known is the worst cook in the family and my grandpa was known for mixing all is food together “because it’s all going to the same place anyway”…
I feel like you’re grandfather would use one of those meal replacements that were developed for special forces but were abandoned for everyone but U2 pilots or something because they had the texture of wet sawdust.
Can confirm, have boomer parents who wonder wtf is wrong with everyone just freely giving up all their personal data to the people they spent 15 years being drilled not to give their information to.
On the other hand;
“I don’t care because I have nothing to hide.” - My mother, born 1961, when told she should stop using Chrome.
Neither do I. But why give up something I don’t have to? If it’s valuable to someone else, I should at least get some compensation for it.
I once charged my portable blender using a power bank daisy chained to one of my laptops which was also powering a desk fan, the future is strange man.
the future is a fucking fire hazard
“Electrical fire hazard” is definitely something someone from the 70’s would understand.
Imagine explaining in-vehicle-mounted devices which play sound recordings on giant vinyl discs to people from the 2030s.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/obsolete-car-audio-part-2/
You can just say the 70s, people.
There is zero percent chance someone is gonna confuse it with 1870 and 2070 is 65 years away.
nobody will own houses in 2070 at this rate
As much as I wish it was still 2005, we must face the fact that it’s 2025 and 2070 is only 45 years away.
We are currently in the roarin’ '20s. Bring on the flappers and let’s do the Charleston!
A few years back I remember reading a headline along the lines of:
“Google Android Ice Cream Cream Sandwich for Galaxy 2 available on Sprint”
And I thought that someone from just 5 years earlier would have been really confused.
I’m still really confused.
Google used to name it’s Android versions alphabetically, using deserts as the name. So Ice cream was their 8th version
ICS was an especially big update because out unified the phone (latest version “Froyo”) and tablet (“Honeycomb”) forks into a single OS.
(latest version “Froyo”)
This is Gingerbread erasure!
They had electricity in the 70s. They were missing standards, but they had electricity.
Just tell them our pet rocks are now cameras and instead of a regular wall plug we have a tiny plug for charging tiny things.
Also they had the ability to do this back then, too. It’s just that there weren’t as many devices that needed constant recharging.
Rechargeable batteries weren’t really a thing in the 70’s. For consumer electrical devices, batteries were one use, and anything that plugged in needed to stay plugged in while in operation.
Big advances in battery chemistry made things like cordless phones feasible by the 80’s, and all sorts of rechargeable devices in the 90’s.
I mean… yeah, having all the electronic gadgets that spy on you and let you read the post of the worlds united village yokels is great, but, just as a thought… why do i need to recharge my phone at least once a day when the Atari Portfolio (which was / is a nearly full IBM PC compatible computer) that was build in '89 did last about A MONTH on 3 AA batteries that i could buy nearly everywhere in the world?
Imagine a world where not every consumer electronic is controled by layers upon layers upon layers of cruft running on an operating system that in its core still thinks it is powering an PDP11 and talking to a bunch of teletypes…
Most of the charge is consumed by bright big colourful screen. Atari Portfolio had a black and white screen that supports 4 lines of text with no backlight.
Right… BUT it was perfectly readable in bright daylight!
"In the future we have a standardized cable called a Universal Serial Bus, and it’s used for connecting to computers for things like information and/or power transfer. They’re super versatile, you know those personal computers you saw in the news last year? Well a USB could be added to connect a future computer without a keyboard and mouse to a keyboard and mouse with the same port and never worrying about brand differences or multiple types of wires or any of that, which makes them easily replaceable parts.
They’re so common that you find USB ports on devices, walls, and even people’s furniture. The reason you might want it in your furniture is to connect your handheld mobile phone which will run off a grid of towers transmitting low energy high frequency radiowaves, but their batteries drain pretty fast during regular use and need to be recharged frequently. People spend a lot of time on their phones in the future."
“So can you like order a pizza from anywhere?”
“Yes but people in the future don’t call anymore. They use a tiny screen on the face of the phone to access a digitally transmitted form to fill out that has all the food options, payment info, and recieving address. You can even get financing for it, the payment split up in smaller regular payments automatically transmitted from your bank balance.”
“That’s rad!”
“It is not. We hate the future.”
“This was a dire warning. The unabomber may be insane and have questionable methods, but many people think they had a point in the future”
“The what-bomber?”
Nothing ted. How’s the PhD going?
Yeah if there’s one thing that wouldn’t be easily explainable to people from the 70’s, it’s the lack of technological optimism in the current zeitgeist.
When I was last shopping for furniture, one of the immediate disqualifications was anything that required a power cord. I don’t need or want anything motorized, built-in chargers, bluetooth speakers, and I especially don’t want LED lighting in my chairs. All that crap is designed to fail / break. Not to mention that standards change quicker than furniture gets updated in my household. Most of those USB ports were old 5V USB-A crap that can’t keep up or crappy old bluetooth standards & antennas with poor quality speakers that I would never use anyway because my receiver is far, far better. And fuck LED lights in everything. Fuck that to Hell along with the people that make/invent that bullshit.
Charged a weed vape using the Xbox once. Times have changed
My 50 year old “dumb” doorbell doesn’t need to be recharged. More proof that “smart” technology isn’t actually smarter and isn’t actually making our lives easier.
A dumb doorbell won’t let me talk to or see anything from the third floor which makes it much easier to tell Jehovah’s witnesses to fuck off.
If they had a 50 year old doorbell they could replace it with a better version of the pictured one that is powered by the old doorbell circuit.
My Ring doorbell like this does connect to my existing power supply for a ‘dumb’ doorbell. This version shown is a wireless model aimed more at apartments which don’t have existing wiring or for a tenant who wants a removable version to take when they move.
I am not not associated with Ring, just a customer.
A doorbell like this requires recharging because it is wireless.
Meaning you don’t need to drill holes, just connect it to your WiFi.
Maybe screw the holder into something (or just command strip it to your door).
It removes to recharge.
Other smart door bells connect to existing power, and don’t need recharging.
I’m not sure you know what proof is
