Echo Dot

I don’t mind bees. It’s the ones that bite you for no reason at all that I can’t stand.

I’ve actually had to turn off YouTube notifications because the thing never shuts up. It’s always telling me about new uploads and it’s like, I’ll see them when I go on YouTube, I don’t need to know about it right fucking now

She finally cracked as a result of no one listening to her. Now we’re all going to pay.

Is usually around this point in time that they admit that they haven’t actually got the computer in front of them. I guess they’re just trying to memorise the instructions or something.

Personally I would not recommend an iPhone to an elderly person. They are not going to use 99% of the features anyway so what’s the point in buying an expensive phone when you can get them a cheap Samsung for 150 bucks.

The justification used to be that IOS was a friendlier interface but I think a combination of Android getting better and iOS getting worse means that that’s no longer the case. Hell their new design apparently makes everything transparent and hard to see.

Physical buttons for brightness is a bad idea. People will just press them by accident and then complain that the screen changes brightness all the time. Laptops get away with it because they already have a bajillion buttons, and anyway in most cases the screen brightness buttons are actually multifunctional anyway so it doesn’t add to the button count.

And they keep repeating “I’m not a computer person” as if that’s some kind of excuse.

Remember tuning to the right page number and then having the screen flick over right when you arrived so you’d have to sit there for 5 minutes waiting for it to scroll round again? If the internet work like that we’d all have a lot more patience with each other.

The big problem is that half the time the answer that you get is that you shouldn’t be in the situation you’re in so the question doesn’t apply.

Well yeah, but here’s the thing, if I ask the question it’s because I am in the situation I’m in, and therefore need assistance. So telling me that the situation I’m in is not optimal is literally the least helpful thing one could do.

At least now I don’t have to deal with the rudeners.

I do like the fact that when I ask it a question it actually gives me the answer, and doesn’t tell me to refactor my entire code because apparently I’m a bad person.

You have to etch them with Eldritch potions on the mystical and long-lost island of Ti-wo-ann.

It’s just that sometimes they don’t respond to input.

You must have a pretty well-paying job because most jobs don’t pay enough for you to really generate anything other than very mediocre savings.

If I were to try this I’d probably last about 4 months and then run out of money.

Now the self checkouts are being decommissioned and we’re going back to regular human cashiers.

Maybe this is North American thing because in Europe they never really got rid of human cashiers, they just had the automated systems alongside the human cashiers.

I don’t know of any store that went over to 100% self-checkout