I am 100% done with technology

[donutsweeper]

I am not very technologically knowledgeable. Maybe it's my age and that I didn't grow up with using it intuitively like my kids, maybe it's just how my brain works. But in general I know how to use it, but not any of the deeper how it works, how to muck about with the coding or anything like that. Between a lack of money and desire I don't tend to have the newest tech or even upgrade what I have that often. I have an ancient desktop, a 4 or 5 yr old laptop and an ipod touch 4. No tablet. No smart phone. (No cellphone of any kind, actually.)

While there are a number of games I play on my ipod, its primary use is for checking my mail and the weather, some googling and, most importantly, an ereader, because my brain is stupid and I have trouble shutting it off so I wind up reading old familiar fanfics to try to soothe it before I can fall asleep.

Of late a few of my apps were hanging and not working so I updated my ipod last night which turned out to be a HUGE mistake. Now nearly everything will either not load or crash within a minute of loading. *sigh* Which means I'll be spending most of the afternoon trying to figure out how to either undo the update or.. I don't even know.

Ugh. Technology.

Comments

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

The problem with what I was having (Blue Screen of Death) was that it could be literally anything that's corrupted, so I tried every suggestion I could find, but none of it worked. Reinstalling was the only option, and thankfully it's fixed, but I'm afraid to download Firefox, as that was the most volatile trigger, and so I have to use Internet Explorer. :-(

What I'm doing is installing each update one and a time, so I know which one is the problem, if anything goes wrong. Hopefully, I'll be able to undo it.

Hopefully.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*keeps fingers crossed for you*