For us over 50 - Favourite Technology

[GetCarter]

julianm said:

Just uninstalling Windows 10 ....

Best move ever.

[motco]

BadBob said:

Technology I really like:

Air passenger travel at twice the speed of sound.
Spacecraft that can land people on the moon.
Airships that can carry you on a luxury cruise to Australia by way of the Eiffel Tower, Pyramids and Mt. Everest.

I wonder if we will ever rebuild civilisation far enough to be able to do any of those things again?

I quite fancy flying to Australia by Imperial Airways. They had a flying boat service which landed each evening and a ferry took you to a luxury hotel for the night in whatever part of the Empire you had arrived at. Any landmarks - pyramids etc., on the way and the pilot would swoop down and circle so you could see it properly. THAT is airtravel!

[TameRacingDriver]

GetCarter said:

julianm said:

Just uninstalling Windows 10 ....

Best move ever.

I agree its pretty crap but having thought long and hard about it myself, I'm struggling to see what the alternative is. Linux has lots of its own foibles to deal with and overall its probably easier to deal with Windows foibles than Linux. For example, my wifi card wouldn't work in Linux and to get it to work apparently I have to compile a driver package. Sod that for a game of soldiers... and thats without trying to get stuff like games to work, even if you manage it, they'll run a lot slower.

[anonymous-user]

Music streaming services, means I can have a music library as big as John Peel without the storage problems.

[GetCarter]

A bit O/T as it's not tech, but our nearest Tesco is a 134 mile round trip and we pay them £6 a month to deliver our groceries every 10 days. This saves me over 6000 miles driving (and associated costs) and +/- 120 hours a year.

We've just ordered our Christmas delivery for the 23rd!

As for tech, I give you lossless audio players. Put with high quality headphones, it's better than any hi fi I've ever heard (and my speakers cost over £5k).

[Kermit power]

GetCarter said:

A bit O/T as it's not tech, but our nearest Tesco is a 134 mile round trip and we pay them £6 a month to deliver our groceries every 10 days. This saves me over 6000 miles driving (and associated costs) and +/- 120 hours a year.

We've just ordered our Christmas delivery for the 23rd.

I think it's s sign of just how far technology has embedded itself in our lives that you consider that to be "not tech", given that it would be, if not completely impossible, totally impractical to offer as a service without the internet.

Out of interest, can you book a delivery for any time/day you want, or do they only give you certain options so as to group your village and others on a route together?

[GetCarter]

Kermit power said:

I think it's s sign of just how far technology has embedded itself in our lives that you consider that to be "not tech", given that it would be, if not completely impossible, totally impractical to offer as a service without the internet.

Out of interest, can you book a delivery for any time/day you want, or do they only give you certain options so as to group your village and others on a route together?

Good point.

...and no, we can book any time - up to 11pm! The vans are nearly always full with between 8 and 12 deliveries in the area. Most of the drivers stop for coffee and biscuits :0)

[Tom_Spotley_When]

Kermit power said:

Trophy Husband said:

Are you having a laugh? I don't know. I'm 51! All I know is that I can access my tunes offline but I haven't got a clue how that's possible! Where are they stored?

That sort of statement is worthy of a cliched statement along the lines of "you don't stop learning because you get old, you get old because you stop learning".

My father is 79. He'd be able to tell you precisely how his phone stores data, as would the majority of my elderly relatives.

The notion that a 51yr old cannot comprehend the notion of storage of data to local memory for offline consumption is just utterly beyond belief, so I suspect that you're just pretending in the belief that it has some form of comedic effect?

I'm 32. I have next to no idea of how to get Spotify to store anything on my phone - it seems complete pot-luck as to whether it's been achieved or not. And when I think somethings been downloaded, I check and it's not there anymore. No idea why that happens, but there you go.

Wouldn't say age is a factor, I'd say it's taking an interest in technology. I have next to no interest in it, so don't really care how it works as long as it works as I want it to. Which it rarely does.

[mattyn1]

dfen5 said:

Grindr.

Seriously though, online banking. Had to go to an actual bank to pay a cheque in, awful.

Lloyds app has the check pay in facility. With Beer being delivered within the hour via Amazon, and Just Eat, I don't need to leave the house. Ever!


But in a serious mode to answer the questions - medical science and specifically PET Scans - bloody amazing.

[SCEtoAUX]

gottans said:

Music streaming services, means I can have a music library as big as John Peel without the storage problems.

Urban myth. Peel owned a number of warehouses throughout London and also had a lock-up or two scattered around some of the northern cities.