Well that just takes the biscuit!

I think this will be another thing to go in the "too complicated box". Maybe, if or when one of my family comes down for long enough, we can sort something out, with regards to phones, AI and other stuff. My knowlege is very very basic and most people start at a level thats way over my head.

I think stuff like this just not doing anything is one of the reasons I find tech so difficult, it either does nothing, or to much and I don't know how to stop it or undo it. I supose the best thing is that I've not managed to get on it, it hasn't made changes and totally messed things up. I'm still finding things from the last time I allowed someone to use my pooter, that I dont' know why they're there or where stuff of mine is.

TheCatWoman said:

aybe, if or when one of my family comes down for long enough, we can sort something out

Hope you can get it sorted out

I would try to help on here but I need to be able to see screens etc whilst helping, 

TheCatWoman said:

aybe, if or when one of my family comes down for long enough, we can sort something out

Hope you can get it sorted out

I would try to help on here but I need to be able to see screens etc whilst helping, 

it's okay

I'm not sure there is anything to suggest, but thanks for trying

I'm not sure what else to suggest then, unless somewhere does a really basic computer without all the 'fancy' things 

I'm not sure I understand any of them when talking about computers if I'm honest. They might ask me what I use it for and I tell them, they seem amazed that my usage is so limited, then they ask me what I'd like to use it for, I might make the odd suggestion and thats where it gets complicated. Maybe I can't get what I'd like in the browser I use so I'd have to spend ages learning to use a new browser before I could learn to use the thing I might like to try. Maybe my computer won't run it as its to old, maybe I need to remove the things that I actually want like adblocks and pop up blocks, to do that just for one site is unweildy and a pain inthe bum to keep putting on and off or having to take it off my computer altogether and then reinstall it so as I can read the newspaper uninterupted.

Most of all I believe that technology, is there to make life easier not more difficult and so much tech makes false promises, its not easier, it funnels you into things you don't want at the expense of things you do want.

Maybe just let one person do the explaining? (The one you understand more of course)

If only it were that easy! Part of the problem is that I don't know what's out there that I could use, another part of the problem is what one person tells me the rest disagree with and tell me something else and I either end up feeling like a bone between two dogs, or that I'm sat in the middle of people with megaphones shouting different things at me. I think one of the worst questions I get asked is 'why do I want to that?.'

maybe try explaining what you do understand then what you would like to know how to do - say to them to keep things simple, and if needs be write down how to do things, so you have step by step instructions to follow

It's probably just me and my technoklutzness, all sort of things go wrong, I can type in a search and nothing comes up or I get more airfryers advertised at me, for some reason the internet seems very concerned that I don't have one. Others can type in the exact same search and get loads of relevant stuff and no airfryers. 

At least I can walk past most computers and other tech stuff without them going wrong, it used to be that if I stood to near a pooter it would crash. The list of stuf I've crashed is long, boring and many find it unbelieveable. At uni I wasn't allowed to have anything with "buttons" like tv remotes, as it would just stop working or go somewhere weird.

I think one of the reasons why my family sort of put off helping me with tech stuff, is not knowing where to start, I don't think they can make the leap from where I stop to where I'd need to be to use even the most basic modern stuff. I think people can also find it fun that I'm so crap and so many weird things happen that they just prefer not to interfere, maybe they're afraid they'll catch whatever I've got?