Nathan
SF VIP
- Location
- High Desert- Calif.
QR codes usually lead to some sort of advertising and are seldom actually helpful...IMO.
The increasing complications of technology
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MACKTEXAS
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It was a big step for me paying anything online or by phone, but I do it. I don't have bill paying set up with my bank. I may get there some day; not yet.
CaliS
girl next door
- Location
- West Coast, USA
and... they are easy for scammers to cover up! They have them at all the public parking now, where I live - and I am always as careful as I can be about using them. I don't have a choice
Thanks for the tip. Next time I get a QR code, I will try it.
spookycat2
Member
- Location
- Indiana
No Auto-Driving Cars for me.Yep! And with all the glitches we receive just trying to pay a bill, they expect us to trust auto-driving cars!
Nope.
CaliS
girl next door
- Location
- West Coast, USA
Oh, I'm with you on that one!!!!!
MoBeans
Member
A long time ago (around 2010) I bought my sister who lives 500 miles away a Macbook pro. She is not computer savvy, she thinks Firefox is the operating system and is afraid to click on anything else. Fast forward to today. I setup and sent her a Macbook Air to replace her failing laptop. When she tried to log onto Hotmail (in Firefox of course) it wanted to verify her login and asked for her recovery email address to send a code to. She had no idea what it was asking for. When I tried logging on it turned out her recovery email was my wife's email at work, which she retired from in 2015.
Talking to my sister I wondered why it hadn't asked for this recovery email before this. Turns out she hadn't logged out, rebooted or updated her computer in almost 15 years! Try that with Windows. Firefox was set to update itself which probably kept things working. I think Hotmail didn't recognize her new computer so asked for verification. Fortunately my wife's workplace lets retirees keep their email and we were able to get her logged in and get a code. Not sure what a hassle that could have turned into without that recovery email. I know with Gmail there is near zero support for free email accounts. Not sure if Microsoft is the same.
Talking to my sister I wondered why it hadn't asked for this recovery email before this. Turns out she hadn't logged out, rebooted or updated her computer in almost 15 years! Try that with Windows. Firefox was set to update itself which probably kept things working. I think Hotmail didn't recognize her new computer so asked for verification. Fortunately my wife's workplace lets retirees keep their email and we were able to get her logged in and get a code. Not sure what a hassle that could have turned into without that recovery email. I know with Gmail there is near zero support for free email accounts. Not sure if Microsoft is the same.
horseless carriage
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The Smartphone Volume Strategy. Forget tapping and swiping gently; smart devices demand intense physical effort.
Old dodderers like me, press the touchscreen with enough mechanical force to shatter a walnut, fully convinced that, how hard you press, dictates how well the internet works.
Sometimes my printer takes on a life of it's own, inanimate objects do that. If the printer jams or says "PC LOAD LETTER," it is immediately unplugged, taken outside, and yelled at, often with a string of profanities. It doesn't do any good of course, but the stress release makes me feel a lot better. Back in my day, a tweet was something a bird did, and an app was an appetizer you ordered before a nice ribeye at the local pub!
I miss the days when a cookie was called a biscuit and came with chocolate chips. When a virus meant you stayed in bed for three days and all you could manage for food was a bowl of soup. I'll tell you what, if we had one of those electrical explosion things and the power went down, all those young cell-phone addicts with their heads buried in their phones would be sitting in the corner with their thumbs in their mouths, entirely helpless! I’m sticking to my landline. If you need me, you call the house phone. If I'm not in, leave a message on the machine, and speak slowly!
Old dodderers like me, press the touchscreen with enough mechanical force to shatter a walnut, fully convinced that, how hard you press, dictates how well the internet works.
Sometimes my printer takes on a life of it's own, inanimate objects do that. If the printer jams or says "PC LOAD LETTER," it is immediately unplugged, taken outside, and yelled at, often with a string of profanities. It doesn't do any good of course, but the stress release makes me feel a lot better. Back in my day, a tweet was something a bird did, and an app was an appetizer you ordered before a nice ribeye at the local pub!
I miss the days when a cookie was called a biscuit and came with chocolate chips. When a virus meant you stayed in bed for three days and all you could manage for food was a bowl of soup. I'll tell you what, if we had one of those electrical explosion things and the power went down, all those young cell-phone addicts with their heads buried in their phones would be sitting in the corner with their thumbs in their mouths, entirely helpless! I’m sticking to my landline. If you need me, you call the house phone. If I'm not in, leave a message on the machine, and speak slowly!