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Are you a Grumpy older person?

TheCatWoman

I remember that tv program years ago called Grumpy Old Men, they did a Grumpy Old Women one too, it was so funny.

I'm definately grumpy and I'm getting grumpier the older I get, things make less sense, they keep bringing out "new and improved" things when the old ones were perfectly good. 

Why can't you just plug things in and have them work anymore? Everythings such a faff and no I don't want a relationship with my fridge, toaster, other household appliance, I just want it to work and do as it's told, I don't need my fridge trying to comunicate with my mobile phone to make a shopping list to send to tesco for me! I want my toast well done on both sides and a knob to twiddle so as everyne can have toast the way they like it.

I'm grumpy about socks too, I mean why are the ankles so tight, even ones that are meant to be for diabetic people, has the nations ankles got narrower in the last 50 years?

Are you grumpy and what about?

Parents

  • I'm usually grumpy about computers, and in particular how we seem to have gone backwards in terms of usability and accessibility. It's somehow assumed that everyone knows how it works already, so no need for any but the tiniest scrap of 'documentation' with a new laptop or phone. (Seriously, I have post-it note pads thicker than what came with my MacBook Air.) But no worry, you can go online to learn how to use it… assuming you can get online, of course. Meanwhile, user interfaces have been drained of any sense of what's a button and what's clickable, and instead of terse error messages we now have apps silently failing to do stuff and giving no clue that anything might be wrong.

    The latest insult was Amazon's announcement that they'll stop supporting older Kindle devices entirely from next month, citing cost. But I know it's really because the older Kindles don't have the power to let Amazon track what you're doing and shove adverts in your face. Well, joke is on them, I liberated my ebooks from my Kindle, then learnt how to jailbreak it and use it however I want for as long as it'll keep going.

  • in reply to AlanRalph

    I think Amazon have just got greedy and don’t care about their customers. Most people just want a device that displays black and white print, which the older models do adequately. 

    I am so sick of advertisements too. Also, the BBC keeps advertising programmes on iplayer that I don’t want to see. If I pause iplayer for five minutes, I can’t just resume viewing by pressing play any more, it wants me to see an advertisement for something first. I have to go back to go forward, in order to restart the programme. It’s spoiled the whole viewing experience. 

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  • in reply to AlanRalph

    I think Amazon have just got greedy and don’t care about their customers. Most people just want a device that displays black and white print, which the older models do adequately. 

    I am so sick of advertisements too. Also, the BBC keeps advertising programmes on iplayer that I don’t want to see. If I pause iplayer for five minutes, I can’t just resume viewing by pressing play any more, it wants me to see an advertisement for something first. I have to go back to go forward, in order to restart the programme. It’s spoiled the whole viewing experience. 

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  • in reply to AlanRalph
    AlanRalph said:
    perhaps that's just hard-coded even if you're restarting a program from partway through?

    It used to work seamlessly without the advertisement and there isn’t an option to change a setting. They think it will make people watch more BBC rather than Prime or Netflix etc.  

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I don't use iPlayer that often, so I've not run into that problem, but yeah it's not good. I think they do an advert before starting playback anyway, so perhaps that's just hard-coded even if you're restarting a program from partway through? I get why the BBC feels they need to remind people of all the stuff they get for the TV licence fee, but it seems they're damned if they do and damned if they don't.