Having to press all sorts of buttons, or rather click on all sorts of things that look like buttons, to do all sorts of things I don't really understand, just to get a new computer doing fairly simple tasks (or tasks that look fairly simple as long as you're watching them being carried out) serves as a reminder, if one were needed, of how much I essentially detest the new technology that grips us in its python-like folds. And I'm not talking the cheerful Monty Python here.
Occasionally I achieve something as I click and push and feel almost adequate. And then the darned thing does something I didn't ask it to do and my illusions of control are shattered. None that they ever ran very deep.
I know there are those out there who enjoy this kind of thing but am bewildered as to why this is so. I suppose the way it eats up time helps pass time for those who have it to pass. I haven't. I'd rather be sitting with a good book.
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