Luddite or Technophile (NTTAWWT)

[Samsquanch]

I have a " wife " palate who is like the human octopus in bed. Can't keep still.

You are too old for them kind of shenanigans. Get some comfy pyjamas.

 

[Ligma]

People who snore

 

[Samsquanch]

People who snore

You are too young for them kind of shenanigans. Get some comfy pyjamas.

 

[Ligma]

You are too young for them kind of shenanigans. Get some comfy pyjamas.

I love my Peter Alexander ones

 

[Samsquanch]

I love my Peter Alexander ones

The one's with the feathers?

 

[Ligma]

The one's with the feathers?

No.

 

[fnarr fnarr]

Can I stop to pause your busy lives to think about the people that use drive-thru coffee places. You know, for convenience. Line up for 10 minutes to pay $5 (that's a guess, never used one}, lining up for something you could have made at home in two minutes because "busy busy busy".

 

[fnarr fnarr]

I rely on GPS. I bought one when they first came out as I am useless at navigating. My wife thinks she is good but I don't believe her.

I am not one who relied on the Gregory's to get around.

I deliver parcels as a job, all over Melbourne & suburbs & beyond. It's part of the job to know business areas and addresses. Excusable to look up residential addresses, but you have to know your major roads. 99% of what I know now is from staring square-eyed into Melways as a child/adolescent.
If I got abducted and chucked into a car boot (assuming you could find 7 people to lift me) within 100 km of Melbourne, upon forcing my way out I'd be home in a few hours.

 

[Samsquanch]

I deliver parcels as a job, all over Melbourne & suburbs & beyond. It's part of the job to know business areas and addresses. Excusable to look up residential addresses, but you have to know your major roads. 99% of what I know now is from staring square-eyed into Melways as a child/adolescent.
If I got abducted and chucked into a car boot (assuming you could find 7 people to lift me) within 100 km of Melbourne, upon forcing my way out I'd be home in a few hours.

Drop me further away than three streets and I'll probably be unlikely to ever find my way home without using GPS.

 

[Samsquanch]

Can I stop to pause your busy lives to think about the people that use drive-thru coffee places. You know, for convenience. Line up for 10 minutes to pay $5 (that's a guess, never used one}, lining up for something you could have made at home in two minutes because "busy busy busy".

Coffee could have its own thread.

 

[Ligma]

Drop me further away than three streets and I'll probably be unlikely to ever find my way home without using GPS.

Jesus boomers!!

I 100% could find my way back home if I was dropped anywhere in Melbourne without GPS.

It’s just real life geoguesser

 

[gokangas]

Drop me further away than three streets and I'll probably be unlikely to ever find my way home without using GPS.

I've got one of those new GPS for old farts. Tells me how to get where I am going and when I get there reminds why I am there.

 

[Samsquanch]

Couldn't decide which e.moticoin to use, but big footy made sure I could only choose the ones I didn't want to use...

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[Horace]

Can I stop to pause your busy lives to think about the people that use drive-thru coffee places. You know, for convenience. Line up for 10 minutes to pay $5 (that's a guess, never used one}, lining up for something you could have made at home in two minutes because "busy busy busy".

Neither have I. But this has triggered some long ago memories. I'm a tea drinker and there is nothing better to quench the thirst in hot weather like we are about to have, than hot, strong tea (made with proper leaves) with milk.

Always did the job, especially stacking small square bales of hay in a hayshed up near the roof, where you can barely breathe for the heat. Have a spell and a cup of tea and then you are ready to go again.

 

[koshari]

Neither have I. But this has triggered some long ago memories. I'm a tea drinker and there is nothing better to quench the thirst in hot weather like we are about to have, than hot, strong tea (made with proper leaves) with milk.

Always did the job, especially stacking small square bales of hay in a hayshed up near the roof, where you can barely breathe for the heat. Have a spell and a cup of tea and then you are ready to go again.

small square balers are the most frustrating bits of kit, the knotters always failing, round bales twine setups virtually foolproof.

 

[Caracas]

Technophile

And I’m addicted to tiktok

It helps having a young brain too… In times gone by, most of us on here would be dead by now - instead of wrestling with the latest discoveries.


Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com

 

[Forever North]

**** technology. Spent 6-7 hours yesterday trying to put together one of those photo books from my recent World Cup trip. Had around 1000 photos and had cut it down to a manageable 250. Gave up after working out that you basically have to edit every single photo, comment etc. Too much hassle. Wife told me it could take days if you're hopeless like me with that sort of stuff. So I went old school. 250 photos at 10c each plus a $10 photo album from K Mart, all done and dusted now. And the photos look really good. Probably been 15 years since I’ve done it this way.

 

[Samsquanch]

I had an echo show in the cupboard doing nothing so I thought, why not give it to my wife's mother to make video calls (she's in her 80s and she is a North supporter who has given oppo supporters heaps at games over the years). Anyway, that's all good, but I have only google hubs at my place, plus iPads.

Alexa and Google cannot video call each other, but the echo show can video call to an ipad so I figured I'd try that. I set up my wife's amazon account on an ipad and mine on my android phone to test. Issue #1 is that the better half's amazon account thinks she's in Japan and the Amazon app on the iPad has extra Japanese stuff, plus help is all in Japanese (I can get by - this is just annoying). Issue #2 is that my android phone can video call the ipad but the ipad cannot video or voice call my phone. I can't work out why - all of the communication and drop-in permissions are OK. In fact, not even text works.

I gave up on that and installed the amazon app on another ipad. With no change to any settings the comms worked in each direction - voice and video.

I'm just going to put that down to I hate amazon and also google a bit.

I'm going to assume the video calling between the ipad and echo show will work but I haven't set up an account for my mother in law yet. I'll do that tomorrow maybe.

Are there any Amazon experts here?

 

[SpiderBurton22]

I had an echo show in the cupboard doing nothing so I thought, why not give it to my wife's mother to make video calls (she's in her 80s and she is a North supporter who has given oppo supporters heaps at games over the years). Anyway, that's all good, but I have only google hubs at my place, plus iPads.

Alexa and Google cannot video call each other, but the echo show can video call to an ipad so I figured I'd try that. I set up my wife's amazon account on an ipad and mine on my android phone to test. Issue #1 is that the better half's amazon account thinks she's in Japan and the Amazon app on the iPad has extra Japanese stuff, plus help is all in Japanese (I can get by - this is just annoying). Issue #2 is that my android phone can video call the ipad but the ipad cannot video or voice call my phone. I can't work out why - all of the communication and drop-in permissions are OK. In fact, not even text works.

I gave up on that and installed the amazon app on another ipad. With no change to any settings the comms worked in each direction - voice and video.

I'm just going to put that down to I hate amazon and also google a bit.

I'm going to assume the video calling between the ipad and echo show will work but I haven't set up an account for my mother in law yet. I'll do that tomorrow maybe.

Are there any Amazon experts here?

I have no idea what you just said.

 

[Samsquanch]

I have no idea what you just said.

Luddite

 

[KiwiRoo]

I have no idea what you just said.

I got lost at Echo.....

 

[Ligma]

being a Luddite is not a personality trait.