Some Things Are Meant To Be

[securespark]

My parents-in-law have only had three mobiles. The latest is a Moto G30.
The previous phone was a Moto G3. These replaced a couple of very short-lived Doro phones that both went terminally faulty.
The one before that was the Motorola Flip Brick......a Microtac or similar. The SIM card was the size of a credit card.

 

[noseall]

Was he able to upgrade or was it better to buy new?

Asking because Mrs Secure's 8 yo lappy is very very slow.

I bought all new and wireless where applicable. Laptops are notorious for slowing down. Crap (internal) storage capacity.

 

[Mottie]

Always raises a smile or two when I whip out my Nokia 6100 in the pub.

That's a funny name for your cock.

 

[securespark]

I think he misspelt it.

It should be his Nookia 6100...

 

[Bod ...]

I bought all new and wireless where applicable. Laptops are notorious for slowing down. Crap (internal) storage capacity.

I'm on my 2nd Macbook air and so far very good and not so slow

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I no longer carry any cash with me at all, unless there is a specific need for actual cash - but it is more bother than it is worth. I was sold on the use of cards combined with a pin, just as soon as it became common and I was sold on it even more, once contactless arrived. The final stage was for contactless to appear on my phone, so no need to even carry my wallet, so long as I had my phone with me and much more secure than cards in my wallet.

I tend to buy a fair bit online, where it is easier for them to maintain a larger range, for things like shoes and trousers. Shoes I take either a wide fit, or the next size up - I can order the wide fit in the correct size. Trousers I can buy, with the correct waist and length. Both would normally involve visiting lots of shops, or accepting a poor compromise.

I have yet to be convinced by online food ordering, I have always gone to the shop, inspected and bought. A few weeks ago, planning a trip to Iceland (the supermarket) I tried browsing their online pages for ideas - I found it an hopeless website. I tend to go there to stock up on good quality frozen ready meals. A few years ago they had a really good selection, but now they seem to have dropped the better quality meals completely, none at all even in their stores.

Good quality meat and fish, is bought face to face, from local specialist shops.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

That's a funny name for your cock.

Only well behaved dogs in my local, unfortunately. Any farm animals have to be left at home.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

That's a funny name for your cock.

Unless you meant this one.

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• ReganAndCarter
• 12 Apr 2022

 

[noseall]

I'm on my 2nd Macbook air and so far very good and not so slow

Different gravy. We only replaced our sons' Mac because it refused to charge.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Cars have so many things to 'assist' the driver that todays young drivers are at a loss when a warning light comes up on the dashboard. Add to this so much stuff is computer controlled and the days of having a tinker under the bonnet to fix it yourself are over. I hate touch screens, especially those controlled by finger prints or face recognition.

To the good, you don't have to keep 'tinkering under the bonnet'. Yes they are more complex, by several orders of magnitude, but you can buy a cheap gadget which plugs in and can more or less tell you what your car is complaining of.

In the bad old days, I would open a paper map to plan a route, writing towns on a bit of paper which I would clip on the dash. Other than that, I would have to keep stopping on route and checking the map. I imported probably one of the first GPS receivers in the UK, attached it to a portable computer added mapping software and it would keep me on the right road, but that took longer than my manual method, but I could see the possibilities... I bought the first actual satnav which became available, into which I was able to store the hundreds of addresses I needed for work locations. It was wonderful - I would get an emergency call on the phone, I could simply select where I needed to go in the satnav and a few seconds later it would have the quickest route to it sorted out and ready to roll. Better, more certain than a co-pilot to navigate and I drove a lot of roads I had never driven before.

 

[securespark]

From my delivery driving days, I have a shed-load of maps, city centre plans and A-Zs in the garage. Them were the days!

 

[ReganAndCarter]

... I bought the first actual satnav which became available, into which I was able to store the hundreds of addresses I needed for work locations. It was wonderful - I would get an emergency call on the phone, I could simply select where I needed to go in the satnav and a few seconds later it would have the quickest route to it sorted out and ready to roll. Better, more certain than a co-pilot to navigate and I drove a lot of roads I had never driven before.

I bought my first satnav last year. Never used one before. Bought it for my drive from Bristol to the far side of Czech Republic, right on the Polish border. I was on my own, so not possible to have a navigator. Had to marvel at what a wonderful piece of technology the satnav is. Got me door to door across Europe without any problems. Driving through five different countries on strange roads, on the wrong side of the road, with varying speed limits, speed cameras to catch you out (Germany was the worst for these), driving at night, etc, etc - I wondered how difficult a trip like this would have been with road atlases, hand drawn maps and written routes, how many dozens of wrong turns I would have made, trying to read maps/instructions while driving, how many times I would have to stop to check directions. Above all it was much safer as I could fully concentrate on the road. Must have been a nightmare pre satnav for lorry drivers who were always driving new, unfarmiliar routes all over Europe.