I get that you're pissed, but there's plenty of technology that you seemingly forget about (being pissed off makes you a bit irrational) that works most of the time. Saying nothing ever fucking works is just a dumb take
It’s nice sometimes to have a deep dive into technology that does work, and works so well you barely even notice it.
When it’s failing is when it comes to the forefront. Crappy touchscreens seem to be a major component in lots of them, had an experience with an elevator “system” with a touchscreen that was mildly annoying.
Btw, here is the litany of broken systems that led to my outburst above.
I'm two months (at least) without data on my phone. I didn't need to use it and I'm a lazy ass so I didn't try to fix it. When I call them, a kind youg man on the other end of the chat says he's reset my service and within a couple of hours I'll definitely have data.
In a couple of hours I have no data, but now I also have no service: "emergency calls only". Result!
Of course I can't log into my account to see what's up, because it's trying to send me a TFA code. It can't send it to my mobile, since it's dead, but it sends it to my landline which is in the UK. I'm in Greece now.
I try to get help by clicking on a link in the page where I fail to login. I'm taken to a page with an "AI assistant" called TOBi. The page has the assistant's icon, smiling at me encouragingly and a wheel that's spinning, spinning, spinning... and spinning.
I think I pass out from all the spinning and all the screaming and pulling at my pigtails. I finally realise I can actuall call a number to ask for help. Fortunately my friend still has service.
I have to blow a few raspberries down the line to convince the (other) chatbot that it can't understand my speech, but I'm finally connected to a human being.
The kind young woman on the other end of the line tells me she has reset my service and I will definitely have my service back in 24 to 48 hours.
Three days later I definitely don't have service. I try to log in to my university email to pick up some work I need to do, but it asks me for a TFA code. That it sends to my mobile.
I call Vodafone for a third time. This time, I'm put through to a technician. He asks me to take my sim out of my phone and read the S/N off it "to make sure it's the right sim".
Hang on. To do what?
I put the sim back in the phone and I have service. Ah. So that's what he wanted me to do. He could have said so.
And I should have thought of it.
So, nothing works. Not even my goddamn brain works anymore. If that was a dumb take, that's because I'm dumb and useless and so is everyone else, it seems. Except for the guy who doesn't know how to tell you "did you try taking it out and putting it back in again?".
I could make and receive iphone calls, I could hear the other party, but nobody could hear me. This went on for a couple days, I was ready to go get a new phone.
Then, silly me, I remembered the good old DOS days. I did a cold reboot of the phone, and voila! people could hear me.
What I don't get is that my phone doesn't have a windows OS. It has an Android OS. Like yours, it should not need a reset. Let alone three. So what's up with all those resets?
Alright, I exaggerate. But when there's so many things that just don't work, and so few things that just work, then I think I'm justified to say "nothing".
Kind of like Yogi Bera says "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
