Network Features (text | un: finch)

[ornithologist]

Please complete the below survey regarding possible enhancements to our communication devices and network system. I will be working with Aurora to make these upgrades.

I may or may not respond to comments. Thank you.

Edit: Additional features being considered based on feedback that were not in the poll include: (1) ease of use features for those less familiar with technology, (2) Wikipedia or an equivalent, (3) banning specific users from personal posts or communications.

Edit 2: Adding (4) storage and sharing for image, audio and video files, primarily for entertainment or educational purposes and (5) expansion of the library to include digital lending of those materials.

Poll #32315

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20

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Which additional features would you utilize?

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Basic system functions such as timer, alarm, and calculator
8 (40.0%)

Real-time synchronous audio communication (like a phone rather than discrete message delivery)
13 (65.0%)

One-to-one private communications (standard security)
15 (75.0%)

Privacy settings allowing group selection for communications
12 (60.0%)

Advanced secure encrypted channels outside of Aurora's access
15 (75.0%)

Social media
6 (30.0%)

Something else not listed:

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Comments

[redheadedstepdad]

Yes, yes, I found the... thing.

[ He sounds very much like a boomer who's never encountered technology before. ]

Why do people here not talk to each other in person? It's not a big town.

[ornithologist]

[ There's a short pause. ]

I don't think I can take on explaining the appeal of the internet.

[redheadedstepdad]

Why do you like it?

[ornithologist]

[ Personal questions... the bane of his existence. ]

The free availability of information.

[ It's just about the most anodyne answer he could pick, but it is also true. ]

[redheadedstepdad]

Are libraries with books not a thing here?

[ornithologist]

[ What an ironic question. ]

One arrived recently, in fact, and however fond I am of physical media, they do lack in search capabilities.

[redheadedstepdad]

They do?!

[ This so confusing to him. ]

[ornithologist]

[ another pause ]

What are you questioning?

[redheadedstepdad]

Books. Lacking... "search capabilities."

[ornithologist]

Ah. Well, if you digitize a book, you're able to search through it quickly.

Say you were only interested in a specific subject -- you could pull up only those references, immediately.

[redheadedstepdad]

As opposed to the minute it might take to go through the index?

[ornithologist]

[ in an abrupt swerve: ]

I'm going to propose the companion robots gain the ability to tutor others in computer literacy. Please hold your more detailed questions until then.

[ he is absolutely not volunteering to be the local tech help desk ]

[redheadedstepdad]

Oh! I understand now. You're the introverted type.

[ornithologist]

... I did not intend to end up in this many conversations from this post, I'll say that much.

[redheadedstepdad]

Introverted but polite. My friends will usually pull a gun on me once I've annoyed them enough.

[ornithologist]

[ Yes, he is extremely polite, hence: ]

I don't think a gun is warranted!

[redheadedstepdad]

It's fine. It's... what would be a good term? Culturally acceptable? It's a friendly hostility. They wouldn't actually shoot me.

[ Or if they did, they'd miss on purpose. Probably. ]

[ornithologist]

You have a cultural norm to threaten each other when you're annoyed?

[ Harold does not sound like this explanation has helped... ]

[redheadedstepdad]

More or less? Barking dogs, there's not any biting involved, usually.

[ornithologist]

I'd really prefer not to be barked at, either.

[redheadedstepdad]

No need to worry about it, I don't bark. I'm the friendly sort.

[ornithologist]

Thank you, I think.

Should I take it to mean that your name is not "Q Q Q Q Q"? Would you like help resetting your username?

[redheadedstepdad]

Name's Shanks. The screen asked me for a user name and I tried using the first button.

Does it make it obvious I'm bad at this? Because if it does I'm happy to keep it.

[ornithologist]

[ Shanks... like the verb????? Okay no, Harold is trying to get rid of his active conversations here, not keep them going with questions. So he restrains himself. But he's still too polite to just abruptly hang up on people, so... ]

It does make it obvious, but it also makes it difficult to identify you. Sometimes that's a feature and not a bug, of course.

[redheadedstepdad]

A feature and not a bug?

[ He'd never heard the expression before, but he can figure it out, maybe.. ]

... a positive rather than a negative? I don't mind people knowing who I am, it's not like there's anyone out here trying to arrest me.