Published on 12, July, 2020
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
I know how you feel as I hate having to ask for IT advice, knowing they will either laugh or try and expect me to understand all the tech talk which is meaningless. I can do basic emails and zoom calls and internet searches. I do not own a phone full stop, smart or otherwise. There is a reason I drive a 1976 land Rover, no computers on board, it's all mechanical and you can see it all to work on it.
If you have any tech questions, I guess t wold be good to post them here. If you don't want to post publicly, feel free to message me. I am not going to promise I will always be quick to reply, but i will try! :-)
Thanks Touay, I will, I want to get a smart tv and am completely confused, long gone are the days when you just went into a shop and got the one with the right screen size for your budget. I don't understand half the words they use individually let alone when put together. How on earth do I go about finding what I want and not getting ripped off by a sales assistant or buying something wrong online because I don't understand what I'm buying?
Trying to get in touch with some ISP’s like Virgin Media and wanting to get rid of all TV and landline in favour of the highest speed broadband only, should be easy since my contract expired last November, but with all their call centres in India, it’s virtually impossible to do so
Try Linux. It only updates when you explicitly tell it to.
Updates is why I ditched useless Windows PC’s and laptops and went over to Apple devices a few years ago, despite some online privacy concerns - same applies to Google Chromebook which is a nightmare