Imagine being a welder. And every day you come to work you have to worry about whether your tools are where you left them. Or if your controls have been reversed. Or the tanks are mislabeled or rearranged. Or if your 110v equipment suddenly requires 220v. Or the trigger on your MIG welder only works after you tap on three fire hydrants. Or your visor has ads pop up in the way of your vision. Or cameras and microphones show up to record all your work and you don't know who has access to those recordings. Or that supply of rods you just purchased will no longer work with your torch because the manufacturer decided that you can only use rods purchased from them, even though that was not disclosed at the time of purchase.

Why the fuck does tech get away with it?

@cR0w john deer wants to chat about even newer better equipment. stop trying to weld on that one...
@thejikz OMG fuck John Deere with an X9.
@cR0w Yea, we trade peeps are affected by it, just (imo) more subtly and systemically.
@thejikz For sure. But it seems like it's been enhanced by forcing networked electronics into everything.
@cR0w yea cannot argue there, every screen or device is a potential infected. And we are more and more forced to utilize screens because "paperless".