The stress of changes

I’m an Apple fan too, I find it so easy to use. My phone and iPad talk to each other, and when you change your kit, the new one downloads everything from the old one so easily. I’m usually fairly handy at DIY, but can I fit a new strimmer twine - no, it does my head in, to the point where I’m going to buy a new strimmer from G-Tech, purely because it uses little plastic snap on blades instead.

Calendargirl said There again, as someone else said, I don’t understand some of the diagrams they use.

My ds and his wife went to meet her mother at Heathrow airport. She was coming to visit her first grandson and they had the baby in his new pram. When they got back to the car, they could not fold the down the pram chassis for love nor money, because it only had diagrams and no written instructions.

They couldn’t get the uncollapsed pram into the car along with both of them, the baby and the MIL so he had to drive his wife and baby home, leaving the MIL (who doesn’t speak English) at the airport with the pram and her luggage, then go back and get both MIL, her bags and the pram. When he got back he tried again to collapse the pram and it folded up immediately! 🤣🤣

This is a great thread. I am glad to meet my fellow Luddites.
I used to be good at IT at work, I started using computers back in the 80s, but struggle with things now.

I have an eye op next monday and I had a text from the hospital asking me to ring DORA their AI receptionist to confirm my appearance at the hospitsl. She/it was very jolly and said she would like to ask me a few questions. She confirmed my day and month of birth and asked for the year. I told her/it the year . Silence. "I didnt quite catch that could you repeat it".
I repeated it at least 6 times. Each time she had difficulty catching it. My voice was loud enough, clear enough and no strong accent. Finally she got it. Next question went down the same path and the next. I put the phone down. Life is too short to deal with a rather dim robot.
I rang the hospital on the number on my letter and said I would be attending my appointment. I told the female nurse what the DORA service was like. She said it was an outside company and she would note my comments.

Has anyone else had this difficulty with DORA? Weused to have a human ringing to confirm a hospital appt. I expect those days are well past.
Be prepared it looks as though she is coming. Thats not a change for the better!

Chat GPT is my new best friend. I use it all the time for just about anything I want to know. It also makes great birthday cards and writers wonderful poems!

I resent many of the changes to technology, but for me the biggy is my local Waitrose. Everything has been changed and I hate it. I’m sure if the security man didn’t walk around he’d find himself in a glass cabinet next to the jams and spreads. Meanwhile their stock of pâté has dwindled to give very few options. I’ve joined a tribe of lost souls who wander around desperately hoping that at least one item will still be where it used to be. It hurts

butterandjam Thanks for the laughs!

I kwpt my last two until they conked.
The trouble is, they just switched off one day, never to switch on agsin, and i lost a lot of WhatsApp conversations, photos, and things that were really a wrench to lose.

I knew where I was with it

That’s how I feel about my (outdated) I phone.

It was my GD’s, she kindly passed it on to Granny (me) about 5 years ago now.

It serves the purpose, I replaced the battery after I’d had it about a year, it’s simple and straightforward, in its shabby little case.

I hope to keep it until it conks.

Ooh, i always have samsung phones, and never go up more than one model at a time.
I'm currently on an A12, which is new to me (6 months) but years back in the samsung world.
I don't like this one though; i liked the last but one that i had.
I knew where I was with it.

@Missadventure . I’ve had iPhones for at least 10 years. I always say that they are idiot proof , that’s why I can use them😂.
The apps are so easy to follow and use .

I find everything really tricky, my DH used to do all the DIY and techie stuff but since having a stroke he can no longer do it. My adult children are my go-to helpers when I get a new phone etc but none of them are good at DIY so when a new small double bed arrived in flat pack form from Argos I was completely lost. The reviews said easy to put together. That was a bare faced lie. My DD tried it but couldn’t do it, my SiL tried but couldn’t do it, so finally a good neighbour came round and did it but it took him two hours. Would rather buy second hand because at least the furniture is put together.

MissAdventure

My tv pops up a message saying "No action been taken for a long time, therefore I'm turning myself off"!
What a liberty!

That’s because it has an energy saver built in 😂

oh me too Aveline.. I am "sulking" today cos my Whats App is no longer on my desktop and "it" one of "they" says my phone number is invalid!! I am really p......d off with technology, I am wondering how this younger generation will survive when technology fails them, like really fails them.. Yes, I have watched too many science fiction films... we , our generation will get the blame for allowing technology to take over.

Calendargirl

petra

Doodledog
YouTube replaced manuals 😂

But sometimes it’s just easier to read through instructions, instead of listening to an American voice.

There again, as someone else said, I don’t understand some of the diagrams they use.

I know for years it was predominantly Americans but now there are a lot more English men and women.
I keep scrolling until I find one.

You are all a great relief to me! I'm not alone in this technical world.

petra

Doodledog
YouTube replaced manuals 😂

But sometimes it’s just easier to read through instructions, instead of listening to an American voice.

There again, as someone else said, I don’t understand some of the diagrams they use.

Marg75

We're having fibre broadband installation next week according to EE and BT Openreach. They've sent a new hub and a brand new phone. I don't mind changing my existing hub but my landline phone won't fit into the connection so have to use this new phone whether I want to or not! Hopefully it'll all go smoothly but then there'll be a new password to enter into everything. 🤔

We had fibre broadband installed a few weeks ago - we asked the engineer to set up our television and phone and he did! Great service and no problems since except getting used to the new way of displaying programmes as per EE new hub. Also, if you want to phone a local number you need to put the full area code in first.

I've been trying to sort something out with Sky TV people and what a palaver that is! I have spoken to three different people and they have all given me different dates and different prices. One of them promised faithfully to call me back the next day which apparently was the first day it could be sorted on their system, silly me I actually believed him. Of course no phone call so I had to ring again and go through it all again and then again the next day too. Not helped by all the foreign accents which I find very difficult to understand, I don't want to offend anybody so keep asking them to speak slowly as it's a bad line etc. Still not sorted and dreading ringing again.

I have a German freezer and have the online manual saved to my computer, but the translation isn't great. My icemaker has failed and the instructions clearly relate to a model with extra features, even though the model number is correct. Fortunately we have an extended guarantee, but so far it has taken them two weeks to get back to me to fix a service date, and now another two weeks until they will be here.
I changed to an Apple Mac almost two years ago and have still not got completely used to it after using a PC for more than 30 years! Fortunately my son was able to help me set it up, but he's a bit dictatorial about how I use it...
We gave up Sky and switched to a Firestick and later to a smart TV - it's actually not too bad once you get the hang of it and even if you take out some subscriptions it's still much cheaper.

PS Re above "what I do do is essential". I mean essential*for me* .Nothing important.

It's changing IT that does my head in.Thing is I use classic Outlook and the system wants me to change to New Outlook and all you have to do is click a digital button on the system. Plus you can revert if New Outlook doesn't work for you.So I click the digital button and Shazam I have New Outlook BUT then I have pages of digital instructions (which I can't memorise) to deal with to get the system properly up and running. Groans of despair . I revert to classic outlook. RIP New Outlook. Until such time as Microsoft withdraws support for Classic Outlook. I do very fewthings on my computer but what I do do is essential. So I'm terrified of lashing it up.End of whinge.

I'm getting annoyed with two step verification for emails. They have used my mobile number so if I go to the shops my husband can't use it. He doesn't use a mobile. The "remember" me thing doesn't work.
When the landline changes I will have to transfer all the numbers to a new phone and I dread it. think I will have to start writing them down soon, there are several for different hospital services so I need number recognition.

I feel I ought to get to grips with our newish Skoda's bells and whistles. When DH barks "Laura! Too hot" and a man's voice replies I think "Maybe not"

The thing that really bugs me is that when you get a new mobile phone it says it will set up all your accounts, apps, etc but it doesn't do all of them and it doesn't put all the icons on the screen as they were on the old phone. You'd think a smart phone would be clever enough to see what's on the old phone and then set everything up on the new phone exactly as it was before! Pah!