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Post by Humph on Jun 16, 2021 17:06:41 GMT
To be a bit fairer to my phone, I was looking at it sans glasses.
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Post by WDB on Jun 16, 2021 17:15:04 GMT
That, as Boy2 would say, sounds like a You Problem. 😉
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Post by Humph on Jun 16, 2021 17:21:45 GMT
Aye, just one more of them. My hair has gone grey, my teeth are falling out and I need glasses now. It's not good.
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Post by bpg on Jun 16, 2021 17:28:19 GMT
Might be time for Specsavers for Humph then or, if he's still got the box his iPhone came in, send the phone back to Apple with a note saying he doesn't know what he's doing haha. Driving God, technophobe.
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Post by Humph on Jun 16, 2021 17:37:27 GMT
Heh heh !
I'm really not a technophobe as such. In fact I really appreciate some of the things the modern tech world provides. It's more of a culture thing I suppose, back in the day, one had "people" to attend to such mundanities, but now, one is expected to do everything for oneself, and therein lies the problem when you're not quite sure which button to press or when.
I had never even so much as touched a computer keyboard until I was 37. A German company I was working for sent me a laptop and just told me I'd have to use it. No one to ask how, just prodded at the thing until it stopped beeping at me. Took me a year to learn that you don't shut it down by just holding the power button down until the screen goes black.
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Post by bpg on Jun 16, 2021 17:43:42 GMT
Not quite a year but I had a similar experience with an iMac computer. No physical button to press to remove a CD, it was a menu option. Who knew ? Other than my now wife, as soon as she walked through the door with me about to launch the iMac.
Early computers made very good door stops. Sinclair ZX80 and 81 were good wedge shapes for the job.
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Post by Humph on Jun 16, 2021 18:23:10 GMT
Still not entirely sure what all those buttons starting with an F at the top of the keyboard are for. I'd mostly like them to be a menu of ever increasing severity of preset profanities. Sort of sweary shortcuts. But, I suspect anyway, that they are much more tedious.
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Post by WDB on Jun 16, 2021 18:25:37 GMT
They depend on context but F1 is usually Help. F2 in Excel opens a formula for editing. I use that a lot; you probably don’t. 🤓
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Post by bpg on Jun 16, 2021 19:00:10 GMT
I just wish PC manufacturer's would standardise on a key to get in to the BIOS. I don't do it often but FFFFFFS let it be F2, F8, F10, F12 or some key press and shutdown sequence (thank you Lenovo, special mention for that idiocy) for all PCs.
Car manufacturer's managed to put door handles in an easily recognisable place to get in the car surely it is not beyond the wit of PC manufacturer's to do the same.
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Post by Rob on Jun 16, 2021 19:42:00 GMT
>> Car manufacturer's managed to put door handlesin an easily recognisable place
What if you saw an Alfa Romeo 156 for the first time? Plenty of cars have done the same since for rear doors. But best of all what about some TVRs.... well that will be the button on the underside of the door mirror housing.
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Post by bpg on Jun 16, 2021 19:46:04 GMT
It is. Garden of England, apparently. Quite apt really, many front gardens being tarmacked over for off street parking, Kent being tarmacked over as a Dover holding bay. |
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Post by bpg on Jun 16, 2021 20:26:05 GMT
What if you saw an Alfa Romeo 156 for the first time? Plenty of cars have done the same since for rear doors. But best of all what about some TVRs.... well that will be the button on the underside of the door mirror housing. Does not compute. Why would you want rear doors on an Alfa unless you were in Milan looking for a taxi which is more likely to have a German badge these days. TVR is the automotive Lenovo, just there to throw a curve ball because they can. Walk in to an office these days and you'll probably be staring at a Dell. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2021 7:40:45 GMT
It is. Garden of England, apparently. Our Aygo, which still has its Canterbury dealer sticker, has a GF. Yep. But it's not just Kent, it's for cars first registered in Surrey also, my 1st Leaf was one such with a GU prefix. Current Leaf is a W for West Country, and the Civic, well, I might need to get a private plate for that as it's an M for some wee place up northwise. |
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Post by WDB on Jun 17, 2021 7:45:41 GMT
I think they missed a trick by not using RR for the West Country.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2021 7:53:09 GMT
You need an Android phone Humph, you'd then see a Cornwall flag. GL is Kent init. Probably spent week days up and down the M20 and weekends on the A303. The only problem I had with my MK3 was rear legroom and engines, mine had an appetite for engines. Edit: not sure about the advert, 10 year old car, 95,000 miles, 24,000 over average  OK, it's done 10k more than my 2010 S60 but that's hardly a highly used example. I always think of annual average as 12,000 (pre-Covid). So at 95k, this one is 25k under average. Even taking a 10k per annum average, it's under. Seems like pretty much the right sort of mileage to me, not too much, not too little. Private sale also, in a reaonably nice town not too far from me, and garages are wainting £4k for comparable examples. I'll probably not buy this precise one as it's still a bit early to take the plunge, but if I spotted this one at the point where I'm ready to buy, I'd definitley view it. |
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