Quote Originally Posted by Iris lily View Post
I hate technology. Our teevee started going dark (er), just randomly. It happened only when I was watching a dvd, so I concluded: it's the dvd player that was a good 10 years old. I bought a newer one, one that is cheaper in materials and lighter and is in all ways inferior and without the handy-dandy timer clock.

Well, now it turns out that the teevee, a new one, has an energy savings thingy on it that causes it to go darker. Stupid stupid thing, I do NOT want to have to read an entire freeking manual on a new appliance to figure out the "gotchas." And my favorite old dvd player is long gone, I can't retrieve it.

I"ve been putting off getting a new camera because I just dread having to pick up the basics of shooting photos and transferring images to my computer. I will NOT spend all day reading a manual. Point and shoot and download, that's what I want.
I put off buying new things for the same reason, especially electronics.

My TV is an old analog job which I never bothered hooking up to a converter box because I so seldom watch TV. Recently, however, there was a show on 60 Minutes that I really wanted to see. My attempt to hook up the TV took me over an hour and was a total flop. Now a techno-savvy friend is trying to coach me, long distance, in how to get the TV working or what to do if I buy a new TV with a digital converter, either of which requires an antenna, possibly a roof antenna.

Well, this is just getting to be too much freakin' trouble. If the new Kindle I ordered works well, I think I'll just buy a pricier Kindle Fire that streams TV shows and movies, and throw the old analog TV away.

I, too, detest the learning curve and all the gobbledegook manuals, especially the ones that are written in broken English.