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Missing something we no longer have

Homebird

I have recently had to get a new phone. I was looking at a post and it changed the colour of the background then asked me about changing colours. It keeps telling me about new things and do I want to install an app.  I keep having to ask how to get out of loops.

Also I can no longer just turn it off, but have to swipe quickly up the screen twice (to avoid doing anything in the process like turning on the torch), to find a small square to start off the powering off. Apparently they are all like that now.

Then I can't swipe to the next page but have to use an arrow and to get rid of a page I have to minimize it first.  Rant over.

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  • Many things have become unnecessarily complicated and the loss of the home button is a step in the wrong direction.

    I have an iPhone 12 Pro that needed too many software updates this last year. Sometimes the updates change my settings which is annoying, but I would be reluctant not to allow the updates as they may be necessary for security.

    My screen went through a period of freezing every time I changed website pages in safari. Eventually a software update fixed the issue. 

    I appreciate having a choice of many channels on catch up and I enjoy watching programmes in 4K, but it would be nice to go back to the push button TVs of the 1990s. When the TVs were turned on, it took them a short while to ‘warm up’, but after that the screens were free of annoying advertisements, flashing messages and bright led lights to indicate the state of the TV.

    I miss having a home free of red, green and orange led lights and I wish white goods and kitchen appliances could automatically be beep free.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I still can't use my new laptop, I've tried and tried and just end up the same loop where only my email will load, nothing else will, I get asked for passwords, I type in the password and it tells me its the wrong one and to reset it, so I do and it still won't accept it because it's not the "right" password. This laptop is dying and I don't know what I shall do when it does, I feel that I wasted £200 on the new one as I can't use it, I guess I'll just end up off line and be unable to access anything?

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I still can't use my new laptop, I've tried and tried and just end up the same loop where only my email will load, nothing else will, I get asked for passwords, I type in the password and it tells me its the wrong one and to reset it, so I do and it still won't accept it because it's not the "right" password. This laptop is dying and I don't know what I shall do when it does, I feel that I wasted £200 on the new one as I can't use it, I guess I'll just end up off line and be unable to access anything?

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    I guess I'll take it back to the shop and see if they can sort it out, or refund me, the thing is I think its windows 11 thats causing the problems. It wants to link everything via windows products, like edge, which I don't use, nor do I ever use bing, which is only the 2nd worst search engine after amazon silk. I think the reason I could get my email is because its a gmail account. It also wants to to link in to all my devices and dosen't like it as apart from my kindle I don't have any and I'm not letting it get its mucky paws on my ability to read books, which is all I use it for.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I don’t know what to say. I hope your situation gets resolved.