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Date: 2023-02-23  

Gumbo before the Rant

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 butt scratching.

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 update. 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 add Trumpers to the mix and it ain't fun.

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