Absolutely Hate Technology

Having a bad couple of days, in the middle of a week off work where things this past year or so have been really difficult. Started the week ok, and was able to relax a little. On Tuesday gave myself 2 tasks on my neverending to do list, first one was to sort out my pc and install a new ssd drive to speed it up as it is nearly grinding to a halt. Have been almost constantly working on that till now 18 hours with no success. 

Just problem after problem, searching for solutions online gets nowhere. Just such a massive wate of time. I don't understand why companies make the technology so complicated and difficult. I just can't seem to take myself away from it, and let it beat me.

I have full time job as a web developer, but technology these days just really gets to me. Things are so much more capable these days, but I just can't stand who in their right mind would design things like they are.

Have only recenlty got a smart phone, and a sat nav, similar problems with those. Tried to update sat nav, but new maps exceed space available.

Yet another thing which has consumed so much time, I just don't have enough to sort out all this rubbish

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  • Dear MattBucks,

    I'm following my last post up wth an apology. I could have edited it or deleted it, but I'll let the history stand.  I can see, having re-read my post of 14th May, that I was unnecessarily confrontational.  I apologise for that.  I ask you to please understand that I have genuinely been going through a great deal of hassle with online form bullsh!t just lately, and I'd also ask you to please try to open your mind enough to let in the possibility that there are people out here who aren't cretins, but who genuinely find dealing with online forms extremely hard work, unless those forms are designed to be as easy to navigate and as self-explanatory as possible.

    I don't want to make enemies on this forum. I see that you are relatively new on here, and I can appreciate that finding a response such as mine could be upsetting.  I sincerely apologise if that was the case - and I also declare that I should have known better. Please take it on trust that I've been going through a lot of emotional stuff just lately, and almost everything that doesn't seem to help me seems like the last straw!

    To conclude, I ask that you please give serious thought to the matter of how people with different ways of thinking perceive the whole issue of forms, whether online or just on paper.  I, personally, am fine with paper forms, no matter how comlicated. In fact, I derive a certain pleasure from tackling them. But I know that a lot of people find them very troublesome - and I'm one of them!

    I find online stuff in general at least slightly troublesome (part of the reaon is that I fear that one wrong click will mean the whole thing crashes and I've not only wasted half an hour but also not even learned how to avoid wasting the next half hour), and at most, exceedingly troublesome. To the point where I have honestly smashed one laptop beyond repair (the best one I've ever owned as it happens!), and have come very close to the same with the two that have followed it.

    If you can't get your head around such weirdness, that's fine - you just don't suffer from this kind of problem. But please accept that at least some people do (I doubt that I'm the only one - but even if I am....!).

    I get that you know your way around computers, and I get that a lot of folk with ASDs do. But please appreciate that, as the cliche goes, if you've met one person with Asperger's, you've met one person with Asperger's!

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  • Dear MattBucks,

    I'm following my last post up wth an apology. I could have edited it or deleted it, but I'll let the history stand.  I can see, having re-read my post of 14th May, that I was unnecessarily confrontational.  I apologise for that.  I ask you to please understand that I have genuinely been going through a great deal of hassle with online form bullsh!t just lately, and I'd also ask you to please try to open your mind enough to let in the possibility that there are people out here who aren't cretins, but who genuinely find dealing with online forms extremely hard work, unless those forms are designed to be as easy to navigate and as self-explanatory as possible.

    I don't want to make enemies on this forum. I see that you are relatively new on here, and I can appreciate that finding a response such as mine could be upsetting.  I sincerely apologise if that was the case - and I also declare that I should have known better. Please take it on trust that I've been going through a lot of emotional stuff just lately, and almost everything that doesn't seem to help me seems like the last straw!

    To conclude, I ask that you please give serious thought to the matter of how people with different ways of thinking perceive the whole issue of forms, whether online or just on paper.  I, personally, am fine with paper forms, no matter how comlicated. In fact, I derive a certain pleasure from tackling them. But I know that a lot of people find them very troublesome - and I'm one of them!

    I find online stuff in general at least slightly troublesome (part of the reaon is that I fear that one wrong click will mean the whole thing crashes and I've not only wasted half an hour but also not even learned how to avoid wasting the next half hour), and at most, exceedingly troublesome. To the point where I have honestly smashed one laptop beyond repair (the best one I've ever owned as it happens!), and have come very close to the same with the two that have followed it.

    If you can't get your head around such weirdness, that's fine - you just don't suffer from this kind of problem. But please accept that at least some people do (I doubt that I'm the only one - but even if I am....!).

    I get that you know your way around computers, and I get that a lot of folk with ASDs do. But please appreciate that, as the cliche goes, if you've met one person with Asperger's, you've met one person with Asperger's!

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