implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Hi All:
Warning, I have a pissy rant to get off my chest first but then I have machining related question.
So, tonight I drove a 2019 model Toyota Corolla with every fucking techno feature ever made to piss off old farts like me.
You start it by pushing the "START" button ...twice.
You stop it by pushing the "START" button...once.
Push it three times by accident and it makes an ugly noise.
So, no more key like a normal car...this newfangled shit is "BETTER".
You disengage the parking brake by putting it in "PARK" and stepping on the brake pedal until the little red light goes off.
You turn on the parking brake the same way, but it takes a while so you have to sit there with the engine running and your foot on the brake until the little red light comes on
So no more parking brake lever...this newfangled shit is "BETTER".
Took me 5 minutes and a look at the car manual to figure that one out.
The environmental controls reset themselves to the "Useless" position every time you turn the car off, so when you start the whole fucking works fogs up and you need to dig out your glasses and find the right buttons to get it working again.
The car drives OK but the techno shit...well you can guess from my tone what I think of it!
This from a guy who wants to throw his idiot phone in the river whenever it beeps and farts at me and expects me to know what that new noise is supposed to mean.
This also from the guy who wants to murder someone at Microsoft whenever the Windoze 10 box decides to "Update" right in the middle of something important.
So here's the machining related question:
I've been pondering upgrading my 2001 vintage Haas Minimill to something with a faster spindle, that I can also put a TRT 100 onto.
Maybe something like a DM-1
Am I going to regret this???
My old Minimill lets me put a C clamp on the door switch so I can run the spindle with the door open if I want...and I want...I REALLY want.
My old Minimill has a straightforward control with a monochrome CRT screen and a floppy drive and a simple RS 232 connection that even an old fart like me can run...I don't want and don't need newfangled internet enabled shit that will sooner or later find a way to fuck me over like every other internet enabled piece of techno eventually has.
So do I do this, or am I going to regret selling the old girl forever.
Remember...this is from the guy who ripped the internet connection from the design computer and ditched all the software maintenance a few years ago, and runs Windows 7 and Windows XP , Solidworks 2015 with HSMWorks, and Mastercam 8.1 on the shop computers. (No not Mastercam X V8...Mastercam V8.1 from 1998!)
I'm also 64 years old and getting more and more curmudgeonly as I get older (how can you tell!)
Am I really too old for new technology?
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Warning, I have a pissy rant to get off my chest first but then I have machining related question.
So, tonight I drove a 2019 model Toyota Corolla with every fucking techno feature ever made to piss off old farts like me.
You start it by pushing the "START" button ...twice.
You stop it by pushing the "START" button...once.
Push it three times by accident and it makes an ugly noise.
So, no more key like a normal car...this newfangled shit is "BETTER".
You disengage the parking brake by putting it in "PARK" and stepping on the brake pedal until the little red light goes off.
You turn on the parking brake the same way, but it takes a while so you have to sit there with the engine running and your foot on the brake until the little red light comes on
So no more parking brake lever...this newfangled shit is "BETTER".
Took me 5 minutes and a look at the car manual to figure that one out.
The environmental controls reset themselves to the "Useless" position every time you turn the car off, so when you start the whole fucking works fogs up and you need to dig out your glasses and find the right buttons to get it working again.
The car drives OK but the techno shit...well you can guess from my tone what I think of it!
This from a guy who wants to throw his idiot phone in the river whenever it beeps and farts at me and expects me to know what that new noise is supposed to mean.
This also from the guy who wants to murder someone at Microsoft whenever the Windoze 10 box decides to "Update" right in the middle of something important.
So here's the machining related question:
I've been pondering upgrading my 2001 vintage Haas Minimill to something with a faster spindle, that I can also put a TRT 100 onto.
Maybe something like a DM-1
Am I going to regret this???
My old Minimill lets me put a C clamp on the door switch so I can run the spindle with the door open if I want...and I want...I REALLY want.
My old Minimill has a straightforward control with a monochrome CRT screen and a floppy drive and a simple RS 232 connection that even an old fart like me can run...I don't want and don't need newfangled internet enabled shit that will sooner or later find a way to fuck me over like every other internet enabled piece of techno eventually has.
So do I do this, or am I going to regret selling the old girl forever.
Remember...this is from the guy who ripped the internet connection from the design computer and ditched all the software maintenance a few years ago, and runs Windows 7 and Windows XP , Solidworks 2015 with HSMWorks, and Mastercam 8.1 on the shop computers. (No not Mastercam X V8...Mastercam V8.1 from 1998!)
I'm also 64 years old and getting more and more curmudgeonly as I get older (how can you tell!)
Am I really too old for new technology?
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
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