I use to love
technology. Now, it is the bane of my existence. For example, I have a
twenty-two (yes, that is 22!) page password-protected document of all my
user names and passwords. This document keeps growing in length for I
have to update this document since websites are always asking me to
change my password... Or the old password suddenly no longer works and I
have to generate a new password... Or I am trying to log into
Yahoo/Flickr and I have to change my password every single time. I do
use LastPass as my password manager, which worked seamlessly with
Firefox - until Firefox became unusable (see below). Even though I have
downloaded the LastPass version for Safari, Safari refuses to load it,
giving me an error notice that LastPass is not compatible with Safari.
Oh, give me a break!
I
am waiting for the iPhone 6s to come out. My iPhone 4s, although dated
and slow, still serves me well. My iPhone 4s is only two years old. That
makes it a toddler, not a senior citizen - except in the tech world
where two years is ancient. I resent the money we have to pour into our
tech gadgets because their expiration date is two short years.
Just
this week, I opened a new LaCie Porsche 2 TB external HD I ordered from
Apple. It worked great the next day at Apple's Genius bar, where I
learned how to setup TimeMachine (I know, shame on me for not doing this
eons before). I went home, took the HD out of my laptop case, plugged
it in, and it was dead. I tried eight different sockets. Yes, it was
dead dead dead. Of course, I now have to return it - not to Apple! - but
to the original manufacturer at my expense.
I
also resent all the updates to apps, operating systems, and browsers. I
use to be hooked on Firefox, scorning Safari on my MAC. Then Mozilla
decided to upgrade Firefox almost weekly, and now it loads pages like
molasses. It removed the option to have the tabs on the bottom of the
header, so I now have an add-in that restores Firefox to the classic
view. Now, that's ridiculous... Furthermore, the latest update removed
my favorites bar and all the favicons. Now, Firefox is useless. I now
run Safari, which is less secure but smooth - even though I have to go
into preferences every time before I exit Safari and delete all the web
pages stored in the browser AND also run NetShredX after Safari has
closed, which cleans up the tons of trash Safari leaves on my MAC. For
years, Firefox was an excellent browser, yet, yes, they had to "update"
it and make it useless.
Honestly,
I am frightened by the upcoming release of iOS 8 for
iPhone/iPad/iTouch. I disliked the upgrade to iOS 7 - it lacked
aesthetic dimension, plus it was buggy. My totally operational iTouch,
which works perfectly fine, yet cannot (according to Apple) update to
iOS 7. When I tried to update my apps on my iTouch, many become
inoperable because the "upgraded" apps were for iOS 7 - so I have
stopped updating all my iTouch apps - and I am perfectly happy to have
them run in a so-called antiquated iOS. I know that when iOS 8 is
released, I will wait to upgrade my iPhone/iPad until the bugs have been
exterminated, and I know that iOS 8 will be compatible with my apps.
I use to love technology. Now it is more a bane than a blessing.
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