My parents only use their smart phones in speaker mode. No matter where they are, speaker mode. So today, my mother took a call in the middle of the store and shared her medical conversation with everyone there. They refuse to change.
It's even better when they not only have it on speakers but also insist on yelling into it because that's how they've gotten used to old landlines. As an added bonus, they have the default Samsung ringtone so you have to listen to those damn violins again and again and again while they fumble around in their bag for it or go halfway across the house to pick it up.
At the gym. Guess what’s taking place right now? Hint, the older guy on the machine next to me, his ringtone is really loud.
I've had my current cell phone since about 2021, but I don't think its very "smart", per se. It has standard calling and text messaging, but there's also a lot of apps which I've never bothered to use or even learn about. My general stance is pretty simple - "If you want to talk to me, be considerate and actually call. If you have a brief comment, text me...but please, keep it short". I hate extensive text-based conversations; the buttons are too small and the auto-correct keeps coming up with the strangest results. In the end, its just another pointless hassle.
I'm not sure if the autocorrect is from Instagram or my phone, but the one that runs when I'm on IG drives me crazy. It'll just randomly change words that make perfect sense and are spelled correctly, into words totally different words that don't fit the sentence, and every time I change it to my original word, it'll change it back to it's word. There have been times I've gone back and forth with it 5 or 6 times before it finally stopped changing it.
Sometimes I see people texting using both thumbs and I wonder how the hell they do it. That shrunken touchscreen keyboard wasn't made for my fat, klutzy fingers. If not for the predictive text feature, it would take me five times as long to tap out a simple sentence or two.
For a little while, I had to do that (though I don't really make calls). Some update had made it so I couldn't use the phone without speaker as no sound would come out otherwise??. (If I needed to make a call, I could plug in earphones with a mic on so there was that) Thankfully, it updated again and seemed to hae fixed it.
That will happen to my computer from time to time. It seems to be something with permissions in updates, and sometimes the microphone permission will not update, while the aux jack one will.
Making seasoned, breaded chicken, pan fried in olive oil, with sides of pasta in cream sauce and seasoned broccoli for a big dinner tonight....and I ate it alone. After I finished, Hubby called to let me know he was just leaving work , at 9:30. It was really good, too, but hubby probably won't ever eat it, because it's too late, and he won't eat too late at night.
It was! Oh well. Maybe I'll get to eat the rest for lunch this week. Hubby will never eat it in the next couple of days, so I'll probably have it so it doesn't go to waste.
I've always loved how despite the guy doing the mandatory annual gas meter inspections taking his one single photo of my meter in the same app my landlord uses to report the readings, the utility company still stipulates that "self-reporting is not a substitute for a physical inspection", so I have to work from home without approval from my employer just so that the inspector can come in and spend a whopping ten seconds in my entry hall taking a pic of my meter. I'm only getting away with it because my manager is on a holiday the whole week. Bonus points for putting up an announcement in the afternoon on Monday demanding that we make ourselves available to let the inspector in between 12 and 3 PM from Tuesday to Thursday.
the do that remotely without leaving their cars here (water, power and with the new meters gas, too). if not self reporting is standard
My wife got a bolt in her tire, so I had to take it to get it fixed. We had road hazard warranty on it, so I though it was going to be a simple repair. First, the shop said they couldn't get to it for a couple hours. Fine, I understand that appointments and people ahead of me have priority, but I can wait. When they finally pulled it in, they discovered that the hole was too close to an existing repair, and the tire would have to be replaced. I'd have to pay, but at least I got a discount due to the warranty. Then they discovered that they didn't have that same tire on site, and would have to wait to have one delivered. Only they DIDN'T TELL ME THAT LAST PART! So I sat there waiting for SEVEN HOURS wondering what was taking so long, just to get one tire replaced! I couldn't just leave with the spare donut tire and come back later either since they already had the wheel off and the car up on jacks. My whole day shot, sitting in a Firestone waiting room....
Fed Ex employees who insist on muttering gibberish only whenever they pass you in the library. Mekka heinie ho to you too, English-flunker.
Went to get an oil change, knew they'd try to sell me a replacement air carbon filter for an arm and a leg like they do every time, and they wanted $45! Need to go to an automotive store so I can buy one for $20.
Just spent two hours sleeplessly turning around in my bed after a circuit breaker tripped when turning the lights on in the kitchen, and my whole apartment lost power completely; not even switching the breaker back helped. It happened at the worst possible time as my lease is up for a renewal next week, and the electrician who fixed the wiring in my bathroom three weeks ago flat-out said that the entire wiring would need to be replaced sooner or later as it's still all aluminum (and that also means refacing all the walls that will be drilled into), so I wasn't looking forward to the prospect of either paying increased rent for an apartment that would be practically impossible to live in for several weeks, or trying to find a new place to live at such a short notice. And two hours later it finally dawned on me that there's another breaker directly connected to my power meter in my entry hall cabinet and I forgot to check that. That was the reason I didn't have power at all. Dammit. At least nothing seems scorched or damaged for the time being.