Why seniors should not have computers!

email from friend | 9/26/2020 | unknown

[missthethunder]

My favorite response to
my kids if I don’t understand something quickly.

“Hey, I had to teach you how to use a spoon.”

[Savage Beast]

LOL!

[dennisw]

Thanks for the lowdown. I think I can try it out first on my large monitor Windows computer. You only need to download an app for that. Rather than plunk down $150 first. I need to see what the channel selection is. If CNBC is free then I am interested.....But it does not look like it is.

[Real Cynic No More]

You’re correct. I was confusing my pc experience with my timesharing experience with a GE 400 mainframe which had a RAM core measured in kilobytes instead of megabytes.

[dhs12345]

No. It integrates subscriptions that you already have and offers free movie channels.

We are watching a high def walkthrough in Sorento, Italy on YouTube right now. YouTube is free with occasional pop up ads.

[Exit148]

Bud I need moi comptutor as I get hear ta zis plase to speek to youse FRS! Yeah fer tipewrightors!

[dhs12345]

We are listening to our music server via the VLC media player app.

I created a music broadcast server using a old PC, ubuntu, mixxx, and shoutcast.

And I can view our webcams via the ipcamera app.

All on Apple TV.

[TexasTransplant]

I am that stupid when it comes to Phones and Apps
Computers, I have no Problems ... a 6 year old found and started playing all kinda Games on my Phone ... I had no clue
For weeks I was just trying to undo everything she accomplished and to get my phone back to normal ... lucky me there is an 8 year old across the street and 30 seconds later I’m good.
Why don’t I understand Phones? It should be easy, small children know it, why can’t I?

[pollywog]

I loved this thread tonight...
After all of the political tension and being close to a nervous breakdown over the riots, etc, this was just plain
FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Polly... who is a 79 year old senior and fairly computer literate!!

[Stand Watch Listen]

We should be reminded it was people who are now seniors that created all this technology.

From Ronald Reagan 1999 biography

Then Reagan turned to the activists. Initially he tried to engage them in dialogue, but he soon found that they only wanted to trade barbs and insults. Reagan’s quick-wittedness is apparent from records of some of those exchanges. At one campus meeting, a student told Reagan that it was impossible for people of Reagan’s generation to understand young people. “You grew up in a different world,” he said. “Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers.” Without missing a beat, Reagan replied, “You’re right. It’s true that we didn’t have those things when we were young. We invented them.”

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

That goes for search engines that default to give me 100,000 hits instead of the verbatim result that will give 0-5 hits of what I am actually looking for.

Ah, the good old days when you could put things in quotes, add + or - at the start of a string to really filter down to what you want. As you said, those days are long gone.