Ordinary everyday things I no longer know how to do

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I`ve just about mastered how to watch TV on catch up, but now ITV, and BBC, have made it more difficult (for numpties like me) by saying we have to join to watch now, and I just CAN`T seem to figure it all out, so at the moment am missing my programmes.

MrOops (as a surprise) bought me, and had installed, an all singing all dancing Radio/CD player for my car, except that I can’t make it sing or play the Radio so I can’t dance.
It just sits there, when I eventually manage to turn it on (Difficult as the whole front pops off when I push the incy wincy button) it just changes colour with the fancy lights dancing on the front.
B****y thing, by the time I’ve changed my glasses to find the on off switch, I’ve lost the will. So it sits there . Off. And I fume.

Apparently the chap who fitted it in the shop showed MrOops how to use it, but he’s forgotten and I now have to go online to try to figure it out, it’s been 2 years now…………

DD1 bought me a Fire Stick. A what?? She put it in/on a rarely watched tv - I don’t know how to get it, really don’t want to and keep blaming the aerial for poor reception!

Booking a holiday. In the old days you went to a travel agent and picked up some brochures. Then you went back after choosing your hotel and destination. The travel agent did the rest. We're off to Spain next week and my husband has had to check everyone in on line and print off boarding cards. He's also researched and found we don't need passenger locator forms this time but we do need vacinne certificates on our phones. It's a lot of administration that the travelling public have to do themselves. You might wonder why he's doing it, not me. I would be so anxious about getting it wrong!

Hellogirl1

I`ve just about mastered how to watch TV on catch up, but now ITV, and BBC, have made it more difficult (for numpties like me) by saying we have to join to watch now, and I just CAN`T seem to figure it all out, so at the moment am missing my programmes.

I think this will work. Go to BBC iPlayer on your computer and register with name etc. Then go to your TV and try to watch BBC iPlayer. It will show you or send you a code. Enter that on your computer (while logged in) and it will link your name etc. to your TV.

You only have to do this once and the TV will remember you. Keep your log in details though, in case you need them again. the same applies to ITV Hub for ITV catchup.

The basic idea is to register you and then link your TV to that registration.

QR codes ... no idea
Still struggling with a Podcast

I just can't be bothered really ?

My brain just doesn't want to take on board all this tech.
I find it tedious in the extreme.

Booking theatre tickets. You used to just ring the box office, book your tickets and collect and pay for them on the night. Now you have to register on a website, remember your password from last time, key in your visa details, print off the ticket and probably pay a fee as well.
If you do ring the box office you have to press button this and that and then speak loudly to a machine and then probably get cut off.

I can cope with the smart TV, and even qr things but I just can’t cope with playing music on anything other than my CD player. People seem to be able to play music from something and it just keeps going. Also bought a lovely camera a few years ago, paid for a lesson on how to use it but have forgotten what I was taught.

I couldn't even work my daughters vacuum cleaner when I was left in charge.
When she used it, a light would come on and then it transformed into all different shapes to fit into nooks and crannies.
I had to use a dust pan and brush.

I know how you feel inishowen I'm booking a trip to America at the end of May. Flights, trains, hotels , ESTA, kennel bookings it's a minefield. In the end I enlisted the help of a friend who visits USA regularly and he was so efficient. Thank goodness for friends. Just have to sort out insurance now then I'm done.

Decorating and a lot of do it yourself was my domain and good at I was too. My husband has never really been good at manual work but he does the vacuuming for me now. He was always my apprentice my joints are hard to work with now I can just manage my raised beds. It does irritate me having to get people in to do the jobs I was so capable of doing. I give instruction to workers feed them then get out of the way now.

Hellogirl
With respect ? when people see these notifications they go into panic mode and act like rabbits in the headlights.
No1. If you relax and read the instructions they are written very simply.
No2. Make sure you have your ‘device^ on. Be that iPad, laptop, iPhone because your likely to get an email that will give you a code to enter on your tv screen.
No3. Don’t panic, you have more time to do this than you think.
No4. If it doesn’t work the first, second, third time don’t give up. You- can- do- it. ?

I have never heard a podcast and have no clue about QR codes

I don't know how to get through an airport any more. Last time I flew into England (three years ago), I was directed to to a machine, not a person, to check my passport.
I hadn't a clue what to do. A prison officer security / passport controlperson started barking orders at me. She instructed me to remove my glasses, then to follow the instructions on the screen. She didn't seem to understand that I couldn't even see the screen without my glasses on, let alone read/understand/do what it (presumably) was instructing me to do.
I was angry, humiliated and upset in equal measures.

I can't cope with buying tech. Every device seems to be a little black box and I have no idea whether it plays music, takes photos, wants you to talk to it, or does the ironing for you.

And I can't do airport checking in either. I just look helpless and ask anyone wearing a uniform what to do.

The same with self service checkouts. I want a human being to do it.

I could soon learn but I'd have to go on a course.

A bit patronising Merylsteep, i don’t think panic comes into it, it’s more a case of what the hell is this.

FannyCornforth we have had our Sky Glass tv and two pucks for about 5-6 weeks and I cannot stand it.

If I am sitting still it tells me I have left the room, I miss the +1 feature we had on Sky Q and free view, and the internet signal is non existent in our bedroom even with a booster so the bloomin system doesn’t work in there.

Our car has a manual gear stick and a key that needs to go into a keyhole to start it.
DD and DS have cars that seem to go by magic.
I'm dreading our car deciding that it has had enough.

If you did want help with learning how to apply for jobs online your local library probably have tuition classes on that.

Some want to learn and get on well but if you have no interest in learning then it's not advised.

For me it's important that I am not faced with an Internet issue that I won't be able to resolve that's why I am constantly keeping up with that world.

Funny enough today I was changing a main light shade and I wasn't as steady as I used to be so that's what I can't do as good as I used to

Barmyoldbat
That’s your opinion. But it’s not the feedback I get from teaching/ helping older people starting out with tech.

And I'm not even going to mention the rigmarole I go through to park the car in a car park these days!

Having said that about Internet knowledge I still have difficulties with things but I do perseve