A mammoth update hit my Samsung phone the other day and I'm still tripping over the changes.
Gemini, the AI thingy, installed itself. No-one asked me if I wanted it! I've discovered how to deactivate it so it didn't constantly keep offering helpful suggestions. Although I did wonder if, like HAL, the computer in the film '2001, a space odyssey' it was object and refuse to allow me to do that...
Various icons and widgets are different too. It took me a few moments to find the calculator thingy; why is changing it to displaying
+ - and =
an improvement on the previous display of
+ - × ÷
Huh sez I. Harrumph. I liked it the way it was. I'll stop now before I start on about the change to my diary display...
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This morning we drove along a small road through an idyllic traditional English country scene that, apart from the cars, could have been any time in the last couple of hundred years.
To one side was an old country house backing onto mature trees. In front there was a swathe of lawn bordered by a ha-ha, or sunken fence, so that the occupants could gaze upon an unbroken view of the parkland spreading up the surrounding slopes in every direction. Small groups of cattle, some with calves, and sheep with lambs moved slowly around this large area as they pleased, sheltering from the sun in the shade of the magnificent trees.
We rattled over a cattle grid as we entered, and over another as we left the beautiful grounds.
Just wonderful.
To celebrate this gentle pastoral scene, here's 'Le Pastor' by Gabriel Grovelez.
I can't cope with change in technological things. Once I've learned how things work I need them to stay the same!
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree!
DeleteHow I would have liked to accompany you on your little drive past the groups of cattle so peaceful💗
ReplyDeleteIt could have been a scene from Downtown Abbey on a more modest scale
DeleteAlthough I am able to make a list on my phone, I still get great satisfaction using a pen or pencil and a piece of paper. And handwritten cards beat emails every time
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. Pen and paper. Always.
DeleteYour drive sounds idyllic. What it must be to live with such views.
ReplyDeleteIt irritates me that the changes are imposed without so much as a by your leave. Every time I open Word on my pc I'm invited to create all sorts of things with AI.
This AI business is really irritating me...
DeleteI've tried to keep up with tech but increasingly find myself saying: "Why would I even need that?" Perhaps I'm entering the Luddite phase of life?
ReplyDeleteI haven't actually destroyed my phone/tablet/kindle/laptop Luddite fashion but there have been moments....
DeleteUpdates grr! Technology bag humbug. I think I have entered the Luddite phase of old age. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteI'm at the stage of sticking to what I already know and grumbling like an old woman when things change. But I'm not that old yet, surely?
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