I started out on a Commodore 64 and dial up. Love the Zip line.
Yes, have learned to get around the weird charters myself, and I am probably as fussy as you are. I have little patients for things that don’t work right. Hubby still hasn’t gotten around to moving all my stuff off the main computer to the laptop. For the sake of my back had to move to the couch and a heating pad if I’m going to sit long.
Takes me awhile to learn new programs, mostly trial and error as those manuals don’t make a lick of sense to me. And I’ve read college level since leaving HS.
I’ve yet to figure out the TV remote the way he has it configured. I’m not the TV watcher, book worm. His daughter got me one of those 1 remote does all for Christmas, I am learning the basics on it. If not for RFDTV and a few other channels I could get by with just local TV. Hubby is the sports and car nut.
Whoa, that is WAY back, isn’t it? I remember the first Mac I ever saw (1986) was this tiny little box & the screen had a black background, IIRC- I was thinking Well, that would put my eyes out.
My first computer experience was inputting insurance estimates in 1986. I got my first computer in Dec 2000 (Compaq laptop). I have loads of patience. It’s just that Windows is so passive-aggressive & I have zero tolerance for that.
I hear you about the heating pad! Some women can’t live without their moisturizer- I can’t live without my heating pad.
LOL No joke. God Bless Canon. (Apple is pretty good, too)
They have the best tech support in the world. I love to read & will read almost anything if I get desperate enough. But not that. I go wall-eyed & my ears start to smoke. I’m kinda up a creek because I always expect DH to know the answers to these things & he’s about as bad as I am.
I can’t watch tv unless I’m doing something- sewing or macrame or ceramics or whatever. I guess that’s listening, not watching. I mean to watch some of the old shows, but I always forget/ get busy doing something else.
Aarrgghh, Yeah. I dunno why remotes are so tarted up. On/ off, pause/ play, backward/ forward, volume/ channel- but no. They have to put all this other fruit salad on there so you can hit the buttons by mistake & then all hell breaks loose (or at least it does for me).
LOL I hate my Kindle. It does this too.
:-/ I guess I’m a luddite. Oh well.