Things don’t work as good as they use too!

Couldn’t get these stinkin pictures to work!

If you find yourself pressing a button more than the needed amount of times, you’re brain may have adjusted to these big corporations attempts at forcing users to use laggy software that would require more button presses.

In the days of analog, these things were less problematic.

For example,

(Younger readers may not understand this)

The VCR’s function of rewinding a tape was piloted by the user pressing the rewind button. If the user would like to play the tape from the beginning they would simply have to press the rewind button twice, in succession.

This was universally known by us old hats, that the youth tend to tip their nose at.

(Younger readers may understand this)

However in the modern age,  The standard user would have to press a button multiple times to get something to work.

Example,

Turning on my TV in the year 2024 requires me to press a pea sized button, and sometimes it doesn’t even turn on immediately as you press it!

I grew very patient with the analog CRT TV’s that I spent a majority of my life with.

As one would for a TV that would have at least a 15-20 second start up time, as most of them did back then.

It baffles me that TV’s of today sometimes take multiple button presses to turn on!

What makes matters worse, after up to 14 button presses later the TV will turn on and I still won’t be able to watch my shows.

I have a steady diet of shows that I would typically watch when technology decides to work. But I fear that most of the younger readers will have no idea what I’m talking about with these shows that are as old as me.

Happy Days and The Carol Barnett Show to name a few…

Thank you to my nephew Stefan he helped me export this picture.

Most of the time, I find it even hard to even sign in. Paying Netflix the price of paying for cable is absolutely criminal, so I won’t!

I keep a DVR these days, TiVo is definitely something that the youth won’t understand.

Actually being punctual to watch television.

It’s unheard of , much like the youth taking their schooling seriously!

It’s hard to use my DVR when the TV doesn’t seem to work, and it’s usually an evening killer for me and my former wife.

I often find myself falling asleep really late around 7pm, and after spending an hour fighting with the TV then an additional hour arguing with Betty on how to fix the TV.

I simply can’t at my age, and I would like it if these corporations stop killing the elderly with their infernal machinery.

What should I rant about next?

Commen