Well I am from the age where there was no Internet. Most of my stuff is zero standard by choice. I do not use any service from others. In the early 2000 we have been the first big e-commerce in an EU country with a well structured VPN and remote workers. We used voip when nobody even knew what it was and we essentially created from scratch all our management and picking optimization software. Now by choice I moved to mostly teaching tech stuff and I use only self hosted services. No google or meta allowed inside my property. All the data is ours and not a single picture of me is on the network. I like to keep living without pushy commercials and pay by use apps. Next step will probably be the development of non standard automation over tiny sized agriculture projects.
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You are from the 1950's and 60's?
Jeeez and I thought I was old 😳
No a bit later. My first computer at 11 was a ti99-4a. Had to start coding because there were no games available. That age
I'm more a hardware guy, I'm an electronics engineer that learned computing and then discovered the Internet. I and some colleagues turned it commercial in 1989.
Same. I am electronic engineer radio communication. I have way more fun building antenna systems. Had much fun building cards for controlling systems with ibm PCs and 286. We did interfaces for the multicd readers for radio stations in the early 90's. I have been thrown into software with the e-commerce but I still hate computers and more than few hours per day on the screen kill me. Layer 1 is what excite me more. More than teaching stuff I like to repair old cars and setting up my ham rig and antenna systems. Did a laser fm transceiver time ago. Usually I reject standard modern electronics where I cannot physically disable of modify things.