I'm soon to be 80 years old, less than a month, up until a couple years ago I felt I was keeping up with the modern world. It ain't so now. Every day presents a new problem with current electronics and hours of checking online or tech support to try and fix. Most of the time "try" is the operative word. Damn I hate tech support. "Turn the computer, iPhone, IPad or Mac off then back on no" matter how many times you did it before contacting tech support. From there it usually is another hour of going through things you did before the call. If you are lucky sometimes you stumble on the fix, sometimes not and it is a wasted effort. I will pass on doing my "live chat" rant.
Today's starting problem, before finishing my first cup of coffee, was MsBubba's iPhone wouldn't ring but her Mac would. Simple fix if you know what to do, switch on the side of phone kills the ring. Now the question is "who moved the switch and if no one moved it, how did it get turned off. BTW, finding the switch took an hour of tech support time.
Almost every day it is something the modern world has managed to fuck up, A dishwasher with a door lock function that is easy to lock but no indication other than the appliance not working. That one was several weeks of washing dishes by hand (which really isn't too bad, in truth might be easier than using a dishwasher other than after a big dinner party). Getting a iPad and a iMac, iPhone or iBook to "talk" to each other can take days of going in circles and even better are printers that decide not to print after a operating system up date. It goes on and on, it is almost impossible to function in today's world with no internet, mobile phone and whatever computer you have not working.
I'm a "1960s" guy living in a 2020 world and it ain't fun.
ken
Oh, I hear your rant loud and clear. Spent my life fixing everything from toaster to multi millions dollar weapon systems. You think Id be enamored with today hi tech? HELL NO, hate it with a passion. Years ago drove a 2014 Lincoln while mine was in the garage, had to stop and look up the stupid manual to find out how to turn the heat on my seat. A Microsoft roll down menu is a very stupid thing to put inside a car ^%$#, was the most hated thing about that series of cars until they ditched it and put in a Blackberry system instead, much better but I rather have buttons to push, twist rather than a stupid touch screen while driving.
ReplyDeleteStupid technology driven by metadata and Artificially Inseminated intelligence are going to be our greatest fallacy
End of rant, now returning to normal :-)
Bob
Bob,
ReplyDeleteI feel like Roseanne, every day it is something. The dishwasher door lock system isn't working. Mode selections locked and unable to unlock. If I want to use the dishwasher for something other than dish storage it will be another service call. BTW, just had a service call for the same problem a couple of weeks ago.
The only things keeping me sane are my sharpening bench and the garden.along with the garden product. Zen is dull steel and a good stone.
ken