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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?

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  • 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
    AlanRalph said:
    Amazon's announcement that they'll stop supporting older Kindle devices entirely from next month

    Oh no really? I'll have to go look that up, that's such a shame. It's all greed, they see people being forced to upgrade their phones because they aren't supported, and they want to force their customers to do the same. 

    If they cut mine off at some point, I'll not be getting a new one. I can be grumpy too.

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  • in reply to AlanRalph
    AlanRalph said:
    Amazon's announcement that they'll stop supporting older Kindle devices entirely from next month

    Oh no really? I'll have to go look that up, that's such a shame. It's all greed, they see people being forced to upgrade their phones because they aren't supported, and they want to force their customers to do the same. 

    If they cut mine off at some point, I'll not be getting a new one. I can be grumpy too.

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Any Kindle made in 2012 or earlier is getting cut off completely from May 20th. They already couldn't connect directly to the Kindle bookstore, but could still download purchased books. After that date, they won't even be able to do that.

    Having said that, there's nothing to stop you connecting the Kindle directly to your computer and transferring ebook to it that way, as the Kindle appears as an external drive. No jailbreak required for that, I think.