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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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  • in reply to Jamesmac

    Oh right, of course I should of known it would be something incomprehensible to anyone thats not into aninmae.

    I remember back in the day when the guidance systems for cruise missiles were being tested, they ran on video recognition to know where they were. They were programed to return to base if there was a problem, which there was the video have been taken in summer with the trees in full leaf, the test took place in winter and the things didn't know where they were. So I think it's entirely possible that facial recognition could fail if your face was swollen, or your nose bandaged, it all depends on whats its using to recognise people, could things like skin colouring make it fail too? If, for example, it learnt to recognise my peely wally winter face and then I got a mad tan or something, or used eyelash extensions, and lip fillers would it know me? I wouldn't be at all surprised if it didn't. And imagine if you had a finger injury and your finger prints were different?