Seriously, it’s a good thing (for the blog) I started the blog when I was sixteen years younger. There is a tangible inverse correlation between physical age and ease of operating any device that contains integrated circuits. Probably there are a lot of exceptions to this. I am not one of them.
Anyway, I saw this picture this morning and thought it was eerily on the nose…
…since I can’t help remembering with a bit of a cringe how I used to chuckle at old people who couldn’t set the clocks on their VCRs…
You think you’re got problems. At 83, I have problems with my flip phone.
I’m still using Windows 7 because I refuse to deal with that level of frustration anymore. Don’t even get me started on the pocket computer; they’ve labeled a cell phone. It lives on my desk, and if I remember it, I throw it in the bottom of my purse. You should be able to buy simple if that is what you want.
Well, in the marketing game of one upmanship, the phones and computers are loaded with senseless (to me, anyway) apps and options to make them almost useless to anyone who wasn’t born with an Iphoney in their hand. Some years age I tired of the demand to pay (again) for the annual license for some of the Microshaft products, and kicked Windows out in favor of Ubuntu Linux. Will never go back. And I started out with a Commodore Vic 20, with a trade school diploma in programming (1970 something), so I’m no newcomer to the game. Older, but not newer.
As I recall, when you first got your Apple computer, you used to complain because your Apple gizmos INSISTED on syncing together, much to a certain hermit’s irritation! At some point we stopped hearing about that problem, so I suppose that you found the setting that stopped them from syncing.
So perhaps you need to find that setting again?
Or perhaps you need to be more careful about what you wish for?
I’ve seen that meme before, and it never gets old, especially for an old Luddite like me.
I may not be a fan of MS Windows, but, I’m less of a fan of Apple Safari because of how restrictive Apple is. And, as for Linux, I loath it. The ROI on Linux isn’t worth all the pain in the ass fiddling that has to be done for it to work on a window’s laptop.
“Linux isn’t worth all the pain in the ass fiddling that has to be done for it to work on a window’s laptop.”
I think the the secret here is to totally wipe Windoze and load the C drive with Linux. Ubuntu is open source, comes with Firefox browser and Thunderbird email, includes Open Office spreadsheet and word processor programs. Antivirus software is available, but not really needed (that may change if Linux becomes more widespread, and security updates are easy and free). Upgrade/refresh available on demand, easy to do. If you have a spare, older machine that you want to try it out on, Ubuntu is not a hardware hog and will fit easily on an older unit. Open source, and free of charge, but donations are gladly accepted.
By the Way: there are no BSOD’s with Ubuntu. Like the cluster f*** Clowdstrike just recently pushed out.
😀 You guys are kind of making my point.
Linux mint seems to be relatively painless, except the the instructions call for using balenaEtcher when I needed to use Rufus… but that isn’t so hard if you’ve ever reinstalled Windows.
I haven’t pulled the trigger and reformatted the hard drive, I’m still doing testing but it will come eventually.
Microsoft has decided to do 2 things to make my life miserable. They won’t support my current PC hardware for reasons known only to them. And Windows 11 is full of spyware (Copilot) and advertisements. 2 things I really don’t want.
Linux was a pain in the ass 10 years ago. Today, not so much.
I meant to say that Microsoft won’t support my PC for Windows 11, and Windows 10 support drops either late this year or early next… hence Linux.
Bob,
The only problem I have with my flip phone is that it occasionally rings.
O&T . . .
I solved that problem; I don’t turn mine on unless it’s to MAKE a call. 😉
One of the thing I subscribe to since I retired is Alerts and advisories from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.* Just taking a look at the alerts for the month of July, and there were 4 for Ubuntu. That’s an average of one issue per week, which is a heck of a lot more than windows. So, as I wrote before, Linux isn’t worth all the pain in the ass fiddling that has to be done for it to work on a window’s laptop.
* https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories