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Though I am somewhat older than both of you I guess my personal experience is coloured by my main career being in IT.
 
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gomezz said:
Though I am somewhat older than bother of you I guess my personal experience is coloured by my main career being in IT.
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My entire career is IT, I write embedded firmware in C and various assemblers for a living. I'm still not remotely interested in some of this crap.
 
Though as a stereotypical IT nerd with limited social skills I draw the line at having to talk to my radio to tell it what to play. :D
 
trog said:
At 66 I am much the same as you. I have never had whatsapp or instagram though I had MySpace back in the day for a while then Facebook for a few months but had no need to see pics of kittens or what people I barely knew had for dinner,
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Nearly caught up with you (66 soon). Only use social media as a reader, very rarely as a writer - useful for public transport updates or advanced notice of things coming up on TPTV. Like you I couldn't give a fig what people had for dinner etc.
Owen Smith said:
The change from Windows 10 to 11 was a jolt for him
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I jumped from XP to 11. I found it easy enough - but I do have a reasonable background in elec. eng. and computing.
 
gomezz said:
Though as a stereotypical IT nerd with limited social skills I draw the line at having to talk to my radio to tell it what to play. :D
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I don't have one of those radios, but I often tell mine to shut up when it plays cr@p.(It doesn't listen!) Probably a sign of madness :o_O:
 
EEPhil said:
I jumped from XP to 11. I found it easy enough - but I do have a reasonable background in elec. eng. and computing.
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I have zero background in elec. eng. and computing and although I passed my 11+ and went to what was called a Technical high school ( now called a Grammar school) the only tech related thing I learnt there was how to spell BOOBS on pocket calculators that we were not allowed to use. I have jumped from Win95-XP-Win7-8.1- 10 which I soon updated to 11 and have always found the moves easy to get used to. Any knowledge I now have came from gaming on an Amiga 500 and playing around with the free things that came with a monthly Amiga mag and then from the internet when I have had PC problems that I needed to fix with the occasional nugget of wisdom from sites like this. I have never learnt let alone programmed anything or ever written any code simply because I have never needed to. I find that common sense and using logic with a little online searching is all I need to get by.
 
Red Button Text was on Death Row but reprieved, or at least its sentence was commuted or delayed. In order to (a) not appear to compete with commercial news sources (b) save money, some items, such as financial market data, were cut.

Clearly there is some sort of automatic or at least brainless transposition from the website to RB items: often enough, an item will nonsensically refer to some missing image, video, click-bait list, or similar. OTOH the sport items are now often longer the 2-3 pages used for news items; and the results pages are invaluable for finding out how heavily your favourite British tennis player lost, or for a cricket scorecard to go along with TMS (real devotees will be filling in their own scoresheet!). But athletics and baseball fans aren't well served, even if Sunday Night Baseball now appears in Monday morning's RB1 schedule.

Once upon a time, there was a sort of graphical representation of the test pitch on which the direction of each shot was shown, presumably using MHEG, but I believe that was canned when it was held to infringe the TV rights that the BBC no longer had.
 
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