At least we could get the fax machine to do things. The touch screen is so many layers of abstraction away from any raw functionality it’s like the pull string on a See and Say.
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Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 months agoVery proud of all the special little techies in this thread who are definitely smart and different because they grew up troubleshooting a fax machine and not a touch screen display like the younguns of today.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Yeah it’s impossible to send a PDF over email from an iPhone. Never been done before. In theory it’s possible, but some computer scientists think it may never happen as tech literacy plummets and children can barely describe the best Linux distro before the age of 3 nowadays
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s impossible to figure out where your PDF downloaded on Android. And then if I miraculously DO find it, whoops - my reader crashed because it doesn’t have permissions to read from that folder. All modern mobile OS tech is a disaster.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
-search bar
-“files”
-downloads
“Impossible”
tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
I still troubleshoot faxing on a semi-regular basis. I use them with Analog Telephone Adapters (ATAs) in lieu of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) phone lines. They are, shall we say, special
P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“God damnit!” Kicks and punches machine out of frustration
-machine starts working
“You fucking right, better run correct, or there’s more where that came from, bitch!”
Walks off like a gangster
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 months ago
As they’re walking away they mutter under their breath
“Nobody born after 2000 could do that”
P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 months ago
‘nobody beats the shit out of inanimate objects like I do’
Lol that being said, violence against technology was bred into us. But if the violence doesn’t work, digital surgery or therapy can also work. 😉
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Have you been spying on me while I do tech support?