and me
my lovely shiny sparkly new (pink) laptop is still in its box. i looked at it.

looked at the set up instructions.

put it back in its box.

contemplated killing myself for being so useless.

but really. why do they have to make these things so complicated?! AND electronic clocks. i swear to god every clock in my flat (microwave, oven, dvd player etc) shows a different time because they all have different ways of re-setting them and i get confused. why can't they have a standard control? why? instead i end up remembering to set my digital alarm clock 23 mins later than it shows on the screen, and having to add 8 mins onto the microwave and.... ugh!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:40, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Oh rachel I wish I knew.
I've learnt a bit of techie stuff through problems I've incurred but it's never enough.


The next IT guy who shows some interest in me is going to be a lucky guy. I don't care if he looks like Shrek.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:41, Reply)

For God's sake
I despair, I really do. You even paid for the shop to set it up for you!

One of these days, I'm going to come round and do it all for you. The next day I bet it'll be broken again.
( Kroney, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:46, Reply)

How complicated could it be?
You can't plug anything in the wrong place, it won't fit.

For the first time, you just plug it in and keep on pressing 'next' on the menus until you're in wondows.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Use your phone as a timer for everything.
It should have some sort of alarm app on it, stopwatch, or countdown.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I use the countdown timer on my phone every time I cook something.
It's so much more reliable than checking the clock every three minutes.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:02, Reply)

Ditto

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:13, Reply)

This is why people like Apple and don't give a shit abouyt the whole open source thing
I have no interest in fiddling with anything on my gadgets hardware or software, I just want it to work straight out of the box without having to read the manual.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:55, Reply)