I'm having problems again, I just looked on Amazon for history books on Cleopatra and got pages and pages of childrens novel, why? It's so frustrating! It's actually making me less likely to look for things as I so rarely get what I've asked for, I supose it makes a change from air fryers, but even so.
This is an example of the kind of thing that AI can be great at helping with.
In this case, you could simply ask it “Please find non-fiction, history books for adults on the subject of Cleopatra and add a link to them in Amazon or other UK online shops”.
After thinking for a while, it will provide you with information including a shortlist of books, some information about them, and links to buy them.
Here are some places you can try that:
https://claude.com (requires registration)
Yep that works :-) Bunny thanks for pointing me in that direction too.
Conscious that TheCatWoman has previously expressed some issues with information technology I have taken a liberty and done this to I hope be helpful
results as links follows:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleopatra-Life-Stacy-Schiff/dp/0316001929
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleopatra-Biography-Antiquity-Duane-Roller/dp/0195365534
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cleopatra-Queen-Egypt-Joyce-Tyldesley/dp/0465018920
https://www.waterstones.com/book/cleopatra-and-egypt/sally-ann-ashton/9781405113908
Sorry if this is being too helpful.
It would be really nice not to feel othered by my inability to use tech, I know most people find it all really simple and easy and can't understand why I don't, I don't understand it either. People making comments like 'Sorry if this is being too helpful' make me feel really stupid and it hurts, I start to wonder if this is another space I'm going to end up being excluded from because of a problem I can't help, it feels like a microcosm of being ND in an NT world.
I know you don’t like people offering you help with tech, but people aren’t doing it to exclude you, quite the opposite.
I think people are showing empathy and trying to help, not exclude, you. It is important you perceive this or you will give yourself more grief - and it also might put people off trying to help. Clearly, you are NOT stupid and demonstrated this many times here. People really LIKE you or they would not try to help.
That green bin situation sounds like a total sensory nightmare TheCatWoman . 40 minutes of that hold music and glitchy menus would leave anyone’s battery at 0%. It’s completely understandable why you’d feel like throwing the computer out the window after all that—it sounds physically exhausting. I hope you can get a chance to step away from the screen for a bit and do something that helps your system reset!
It's Ok Phased, I don't want to fall out with anyone, so lets just chalk it up to miscomunication?
I wish someone could save me from bad algorrythms, Mum and I had a hell of a time earlier trying to renew the yearly sticker for our green bin, garden recycling. Mum phoned twice, got through easy enough, but got cut off when she tried to give them her card details, she gave up in frustration after shouting at the phone for a bit. Then I tried online, that went OK until I had to input our address with one of those pick an option things from, I found our address and clicked on it, at which point I noticed that it had had jumped itself up the wrong address, this happend about 3 times before I got it to stick, then when I've gone through the check out and paid for the thing, I find it's put the wrong address in again. So have to phone them and got cut off, in the end it took me 40 mins to get through to what I guess was a human to fix it, he was totally uninterested in any problems with the site. 40 mins of being sat there listening to nasty "music" interspersed with with being told how I could do it all so much more quickly and easily online.
Amazon won't let me change card on it's payment page, so even though I'm trying to pay with my card, it keeps putting it on my Mums card and I don't know why, thats twice it's happened now.
I'm actually at the point of wondering whether to give up completely and live off line? Only I'm not sure it's possible anymore, everything seems to be online which wouldn't be to bad if the stuff actually worked.
During the course of typing this I've been signed out and then when I'd nearly finished something happened and I lost half of it. You couldn't make it up!
I’m really sorry my comment made you feel 'othered' or stupid TheCatWoman . That was the last thing I wanted to happen.
I only said 'sorry if this is too helpful' because I know it’s usually better to do things for oneself, and I didn't want to overstep or take away your agency. I was just trying to save you some frustration with the bad algorithms you mentioned.
I'll make sure to ask first before posting search results next time. I'm glad you found the Tyldesley book, though — I am led to believe that it's a great read.
I’m really sorry my comment made you feel 'othered' or stupid TheCatWoman . That was the last thing I wanted to happen.
I only said 'sorry if this is too helpful' because I know it’s usually better to do things for oneself, and I didn't want to overstep or take away your agency. I was just trying to save you some frustration with the bad algorithms you mentioned.
I'll make sure to ask first before posting search results next time. I'm glad you found the Tyldesley book, though — I am led to believe that it's a great read.
That green bin situation sounds like a total sensory nightmare TheCatWoman . 40 minutes of that hold music and glitchy menus would leave anyone’s battery at 0%. It’s completely understandable why you’d feel like throwing the computer out the window after all that—it sounds physically exhausting. I hope you can get a chance to step away from the screen for a bit and do something that helps your system reset!
It's Ok Phased, I don't want to fall out with anyone, so lets just chalk it up to miscomunication?
I wish someone could save me from bad algorrythms, Mum and I had a hell of a time earlier trying to renew the yearly sticker for our green bin, garden recycling. Mum phoned twice, got through easy enough, but got cut off when she tried to give them her card details, she gave up in frustration after shouting at the phone for a bit. Then I tried online, that went OK until I had to input our address with one of those pick an option things from, I found our address and clicked on it, at which point I noticed that it had had jumped itself up the wrong address, this happend about 3 times before I got it to stick, then when I've gone through the check out and paid for the thing, I find it's put the wrong address in again. So have to phone them and got cut off, in the end it took me 40 mins to get through to what I guess was a human to fix it, he was totally uninterested in any problems with the site. 40 mins of being sat there listening to nasty "music" interspersed with with being told how I could do it all so much more quickly and easily online.
Amazon won't let me change card on it's payment page, so even though I'm trying to pay with my card, it keeps putting it on my Mums card and I don't know why, thats twice it's happened now.
I'm actually at the point of wondering whether to give up completely and live off line? Only I'm not sure it's possible anymore, everything seems to be online which wouldn't be to bad if the stuff actually worked.
During the course of typing this I've been signed out and then when I'd nearly finished something happened and I lost half of it. You couldn't make it up!
