This morning my wife is angry because of the banking system issues due to the cyber outage.
I don't know why everything needs to be so interconnected.
The FBI warning about security issues with solar equipment highlights something.
WHY DOES IT NEED TO HAVE CONNECTIVITY in the first place?
These things should be options you need to OPT-IN too.
Most of us have computers and smart devices we could easily plug into our smart stuff if we needed to make an adjustment to it.
These are not things we need to have done automatically is it?
Not to say that everything more primitive is better thats hardly the case at all!
Three generators here I have posted photos of.
A very simply LK with no solid state devices at all.
Primitive and simple and inefficient ( about 25% of all electrical power it creates is used to drive its field into hard saturation in a brute force approach to voltage regulation... )
Chinese Generator with some electronics inside to provide some more features and better fuel efficiency.
Still pretty simple, some nice features but not smart.
The Honda inverter.
Computerized smart efficient and small
But at the cost of being almost incomprehensible to the owner to fix
But all three do exactly the same thing!
Turn gasoline into noise heat and smoke and make a little electricity on the side
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The LK make me think of the scene in On the beach when the sailors marvel at the equipment that kept running when the people were gone
The reality of our modern age of connectivity is very different.
The Technology we depend on gets more and more complex to make our lives easier, but with less and less ability for us to comprehend.
Is it a trap or a god send?
I don't know how to answer that.
I know We can not and should not go backwards but forwards makes us only more and more vulnerable to the technology trap.