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peppergomez
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Anyone else sometimes feel like technology is basically making them its bitch? I have been feeling that way this last month or two, with pretty much everything computer-related not working like it should (with ironically the exception being perhaps the most ambitious tech set up I have- triple monitor gaming, which has been working flawlessly ever since I ditched AMD and bought NVIDIA. God bless you, NVIDIA. If only other tech would follow your fine example.)
Here are the most recent and egregious examples:
I've been mostly unable to use my cell phone anywhere near my apartment for a few months now (call quality is so bad at least 75% of the time that I cannot understand what other person is saying, calls are dropped all the time). Spent 10+ hours troubleshooting it with Sprint (difficult to troubleshoot when I cannot talk to someone in my apartment). And until last week internet speed on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) was so slow as to be mostly unusable. And this is with an Airrave modem from Sprint, which is supposed to boost the signal.
I am unable to use wireless guest accounts of either my neighbor or my parents since in each case the guest log-in screen doesn't appear (on either laptop or ipad). Cals to Cisco have not resulted in any solution (they want $30 to reactivate tech help coverage, and thus refuse to provide help on the phone...have found no answers in the Cisco forums, after having posted there.)
Laptop runs a snail's pace such that in an IM session it takes a good 30 seconds for a single sentence to appear after I've typed it (and I did a Windows 7 reinstall two months back).
And then there was that fake FBI Cybercrime virus on my desktop that hijacked Windows, and that took a good 2 days of effort to fix (admittedly my fault for having done some sketchy surfing).
I have about had it with shit not working like it is supposed to, and am feeling less and less inclined to spend the time and effort to troubleshoot it. I kind of feel like cancelling my internet account, and possibly closing my phone account, and just saying "F it" to any further attempts to do anything other than have basic phone service and check my email via my ipad every week at WiFi at whatever public establishment. I will miss playing Skyrim, which I really enjoy, and will likely go through withdrawal, but a life without all this shit seems increasingly appealing.
Anyone else been in this frame of mind, and has enyone actually taken a sanity break of a few weeks/months from all this PITA tech crap that doesn't work like it is supposed to?
PS- Not a very [h] sentiment to share, I realize, since the hardcore here would likely root around and investigate until they found a solution. I'm starting to feel like that effort is no longer worth it, just to get shit to work as it is supposed to.
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Here are the most recent and egregious examples:
I've been mostly unable to use my cell phone anywhere near my apartment for a few months now (call quality is so bad at least 75% of the time that I cannot understand what other person is saying, calls are dropped all the time). Spent 10+ hours troubleshooting it with Sprint (difficult to troubleshoot when I cannot talk to someone in my apartment). And until last week internet speed on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3) was so slow as to be mostly unusable. And this is with an Airrave modem from Sprint, which is supposed to boost the signal.
I am unable to use wireless guest accounts of either my neighbor or my parents since in each case the guest log-in screen doesn't appear (on either laptop or ipad). Cals to Cisco have not resulted in any solution (they want $30 to reactivate tech help coverage, and thus refuse to provide help on the phone...have found no answers in the Cisco forums, after having posted there.)
Laptop runs a snail's pace such that in an IM session it takes a good 30 seconds for a single sentence to appear after I've typed it (and I did a Windows 7 reinstall two months back).
And then there was that fake FBI Cybercrime virus on my desktop that hijacked Windows, and that took a good 2 days of effort to fix (admittedly my fault for having done some sketchy surfing).
I have about had it with shit not working like it is supposed to, and am feeling less and less inclined to spend the time and effort to troubleshoot it. I kind of feel like cancelling my internet account, and possibly closing my phone account, and just saying "F it" to any further attempts to do anything other than have basic phone service and check my email via my ipad every week at WiFi at whatever public establishment. I will miss playing Skyrim, which I really enjoy, and will likely go through withdrawal, but a life without all this shit seems increasingly appealing.
Anyone else been in this frame of mind, and has enyone actually taken a sanity break of a few weeks/months from all this PITA tech crap that doesn't work like it is supposed to?
PS- Not a very [h] sentiment to share, I realize, since the hardcore here would likely root around and investigate until they found a solution. I'm starting to feel like that effort is no longer worth it, just to get shit to work as it is supposed to.
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) and the fact that even the most trivial pieces of software like pdf readers now come with an autostarting tray app, a 'quick start' process, an updater process and additional bloatware that I need to opt-out of. Every softare wants to be at the centre of the user's attention. For a truly casual user (some og my clients are older people that just check their e-mail on a Sunday) the computer is now some needy thing you need to update all the f**g time.