{"id":2008,"date":"2021-06-08T22:44:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T22:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2021-06-08T22:44:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T22:44:58","slug":"day-8-shiny-gadgets-i-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/day-8-shiny-gadgets-i-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 8: Shiny Gadgets I love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really fit into the edtech scene on this question. At least I don&#8217;t feel that way. When it comes to tech,\u00a0<em>shiny<\/em> is almost never on the plate for me. I still use a 2012 Mac Mini as my primary desktop. Most other devices I run into the ground before purchasing a new to me one, and those are usually at least 1-2 generations old by the time I get one (like iPad or iPhone). I still play my WiiU and Sega Dreamcast and don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;ll do when these game systems finally give up the ghost. I have a Kenwood stereo from the 90s with a 5 disc CD changer, and you can bet that I still use that all the time. When it comes to tech, I don&#8217;t need new or shiny, and am totally ok with that. The stuff I have does what I need it to and I don&#8217;t feel constrained by that. Plus it saves a lot that I can spend elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Guess this is a pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t really fit into the edtech scene on this question. At least I don&#8217;t feel that way. When it comes to tech,\u00a0shiny is almost never on the plate for me. I still use a 2012 Mac Mini as my primary desktop. Most other devices I run into the ground before purchasing a new to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-juneedtechchallenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/files\/2021\/06\/day8juneedtechchallenge.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2016,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions\/2016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrdingwall.ca\/blogwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}