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.
I’m pretty sure my washing machine is the thing that saves me most time. Washing by hand is fucking hard work and very time consuming. I would neither have the time nor the physical endurance to keep all my clothes and household items in a state acceptable to society.
Then again, if washing machines did not exist, society would have to adjust it’s expectations. It’s also kind of wasteful to wash clothes too often.
Yeah, every time a new timesaving invention becomes mainstream the “meta” of society adjusts and everything gets faster. And more chaotic and insane and crazy. Modern life is weird
Yeah, ‘living within your means’ works in both directions.
My dryer was down for a bit so I had to hang clothes to dry. Slight inconvenience that really made me appreciate having a washing machine that still worked.
mechanized laundry is second only to modern medicine, imo
followed closely by indoor plumbing and dishwashers
Indoor plumbing wins all of them for me, for one my washing machine wouldn’t be worth it without, and for another it’d be hard to access clean water to rinse wounds and drink medicine.
Massive respect to people (most often women) around the world who have washed clothes by hand. The cleaning of the clothes is bad enough but there’s also the fetching of (or travelling to) a lot of water.
My refrigerator/freezer. Lets me buy food at ideal times (sales etc) and keep it fresh until it is conveneient for me, sometimes months later in the case of the freezer.
Water infrastructure.
Be it indoor plumbing or a flushable toilet or a water treatment plant, without water infrastructure modern civilization would be impossible.
Password manager (saves time typing passwords) and adblocker (saves time wasted on ads and of course malicious content).
What password manager do you use? I use Keeper, but I wonder if there’s a cheaper alternative that’s just as good that I haven’t looked into. I never hear of anyone using this one on Lemmy.
The best is Keepass. The easiest is Bitwarden. Both are free :)
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Why do you hate to admit that? GPT and LLM’s are tools
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Yeah I wouldn’t feel guilty in the least my friend, highly competent people are using LLM’s to improve their efficiency. People have an unfounded fear (for now) that AI is going to replace them and their job, but the reality is that someone who is efficiently using AI is going to take their job if they’re not
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Air fryer. Honestly, this thing just makes cooking easier. I don’t need to stand in front of the oven or grill to make something. Just bung stuff in and come back in 15 mins.
My urine bottles. Standing up to go to the toilet is too hard for me.
Edit: Also my phone is great because it enables me to call my wife (or my caretaker if he is approved) to give me food or new urine bottles.
My bash scripts. They are saving me lots of time at work, performing screen scraping, filling reports and monitoring old servers.
At home they are making backups and automating repetitive tasks.
I just love shell scripting in general. I should probably own a shirt that says “go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script”.
Any and all fixtures in my bathroom
Smartphone with internet connection.
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.
This is stupid but I was just using it so it is on my mind: a calculator. Saves so much time and paper.
My kindle changes the books I read into OpenDyslexic font, which allows me to read much faster and with less fatigue.
A battery voltage tester was pretty cheap and I was surprised by how often I use it.
A google map
I wish there was a viable alternative…the ones I’ve tried based on Open Map don’t cut it.
