Tech

     I have huge problems with tech, I almost gave up joining here as I kept running into problems about codes and passwords. I can use basic email and just about cope with some shopping, like the big forresty place, but some I find overwhelming. I don't know how to use a smart phone I can just about cope with a stupid one, but not well. Everyone seems to think that everyone else is comfortable with tech and that 'it's intuitive', who's intuition are they using? I can't seem to find any help and everyone seems to think more tech is the answer. I'm starting to get very excluded from the world as everything moves towards smart phones, mobile banking, do they really want me to crash the worlds entire banking system? That's the other thing with tech, I go near it, it goes wrong, the list of things I've crashed gets ever longer, sometimes I only have to stand next to something for it to stop working. I'm so fed up with stupid answers when I try and explain my problems, from people talking loudly and slowly to me, (my response was I'm autistic not deaf or stupid), or laughing, getting angry, trying to start me off at a place well above my understanding, like 'you have to decide if you want Apple or Android?' Most often they just sort of drift away, before I sprout a second head or something. One of my learning difficulties is that some bits of information go straight to long term memory storage without ever passing through short term memory storage, I'm told that without spending time in short term storage, I have no synaptic links created, so I can't retrieve information. For example I know I've done C&P dozens of times, but I can't remember how to do it, everytime is like the first, of course it dosen't help when I lose stuff, like an essay or something. Tech causes me more meltdowns than almost anything else

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  • There's a fine line between using the phone, and the phone using you.

    I planned to head to Belfast, on Easter Sunday, for a Craig Charles DJ Funk and Soul set; at the Limelight. However, Ticketmaster shoehorned use of the App, for an eTicket.

    On the other hand, National Express were gracious enough to Post a ticket, I ordered, for a return journey between Liverpool and Birmingham NEC; for July.

    It's all about knowing who's the Alpha.

  • Thing is though, when buying a SailRail ticket from Manchester to Dublin online from TfW’s website, they insist on a whole bunch of paper tickets rather than a QR code sent to your phone even if purchased via the TfW app - otherwise its a code sent via email that you have to enter into the ticket machine at Manchester Piccadilly with the same debit card your used to buy the tickets in the first place and the printed tickets still come with the old BR logo, which still gets strange looks at the Irish Ferries check-in desk at Holyhead for the ferry to Dublin - it’s even worse at Irish Rail if buying SailRail tickets at Dublin Connolly or at Irish Ferries in Dublin Port, as these are all hand-written, even in the post-Covid era 

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  • Thing is though, when buying a SailRail ticket from Manchester to Dublin online from TfW’s website, they insist on a whole bunch of paper tickets rather than a QR code sent to your phone even if purchased via the TfW app - otherwise its a code sent via email that you have to enter into the ticket machine at Manchester Piccadilly with the same debit card your used to buy the tickets in the first place and the printed tickets still come with the old BR logo, which still gets strange looks at the Irish Ferries check-in desk at Holyhead for the ferry to Dublin - it’s even worse at Irish Rail if buying SailRail tickets at Dublin Connolly or at Irish Ferries in Dublin Port, as these are all hand-written, even in the post-Covid era 

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