I've got a complaint with my new motor already!

[ReganAndCarter]

My LG, on a scan, picks up three separate regional Freeview areas, and asks you to pick your local one. Quite frequently, I will switch it on, only to find it has decided to change the local one, to one of the more distant ones, with no option to change it back. I have to do a full rescan.

Yes, cars, TVs, even Wifi linked cooker hobs? All getting stupidly complex. Complete waste of time, and as you have found, not very user friendly.

 

[Avocet]

Everything these days seems to be a computer first, and it's original primary function seems to be secondary. Same with my brother's Sky Glass tv. Appears to be a computer with a large screen attached. Has more than it's fair share of glitches too - just like any pc.

It is. And there will be more of it. Computers are just so much better at doing stuff. My old car (36 years) had "one touch" on the driver's window. About as cool as it got in 1989! But it needs a separate switch, separate loom and several relays to do it. The complete wiring loom for that car, weighs almost as much as I do! In a modern car, it's just so much cheaper and easier to use a computer controller and tell it that if it sees the window switch pressed for less than (say) half a second and then released, just put it all the way up or all the way down. Features like altering the delay on the intermittent wipers or increasing the radio volume with speed, or angling the nearside mirror down when reverse is selected, or killing the reversing lights and fog light(s) when a trailer socket is plugged in, but still sending power to the same lights on the trailer. All easy peasy with a computer, but an absolute nightmare with relays and switches. My car has a speedo drive gear, when then turns a little signal generator that generates a speed pulse to send to the speedo. After a while, someone realised that the car already HAS (four!) speed pulse generators - one on each wheel for the ABS, so why not just tell the ABS computer to share that information with the instruments computer to drive the speedo, and save a wee box and a couple of connectors. The same signal can then talk to the throttle to give you cruise control for peanuts, whereas before, there was a fair bit of additional hardware and a load of vacuum pipes.

And that's BEFORE we even start talking about airbags and collision avoidance!