Echo Dot

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

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.

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.

That’s when you load all middle managers onto a spaceship and send them off under the guise of colonising a new world.

make it so the users can’t close the tab until they bought something.

Why do they always request that? They’ve never seen any website on the internet work like that yet they actually think that they are the first people to come up with that idea.

It would still have to be in at least somewhat of a consistent format. Even a human would require that.

If they’re just going to write the details however they feel on any particular day and then just expect someone or something to be able to interpret that they’re going to have a bad time.

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