From my person experience people like you have the ability to work with computers but either not the desire or just a phobia. From your posts and our conversations, you seem to have a good mind with good critical thinking skills which are extremely important to work with computers. Anyone can be taught to change oil or disc brakes. It’s takes critical thinking skills to diagnose problems to determine what the problem is. I find a good mechanics skills and a software engineer skills to be very similar.
First you’re given a problem to solve. Then you diagnose what the problem is. Then you determine the best solution and then execute your solution. When finished you test to see if it worked. Those are the exact same steps good software engineers take every day. The major difference is our solutions mainly don’t take hours or days, but sometimes months and we’re working with a team of other engineers. But the skills are the same.
I agree that some people seem to have a phobia about everything in connection with computers. I know a guy who frequents websites that are… let’s just say… sites that you wouldn’t want your grandchildren to see. As a result of surfing sketchy sites, he winds-up with serious computer infections several times each year.
I have repeatedly told him to install a good anti-virus program, but he says that he “doesn’t want to screw-up the computer”. This could be a genuine phobia, but I think that the real reason is his cheapness in regard to everything.
When he gets one of those inevitable infections, he has a guy come to his house–to the tune of $100 per visit–in order to de-bug the computer. So, the guy who is too cheap to spend $50-$80 once each year for a good anti-virus program winds up spending a few hundred $$ each year, instead. Once again, an example of the people who want to save the most money who actually wind-up spending the most.
My issue is I get overwhelmed with computers, I tried following the reddit advise that Twin Turbo posted the link to, and it said Settings>Privacy/Search/Search> = Search what?? I have search permissions and or searching windows, I have looked in both and nowhere have I found >Address bar and search (all the way at the bottom)… My wife can’t follow this either on her laptop…
It doesn’t seem to be the Yahoo app, but just the default browser. This is usually caused by Malware/virus. Try Malewarebytes. This is FREE and I hear it works good. I pay for Norton-antivirus so I’ve never used Malewarebytes but it is legit.
Click on the 3 dots next to Yahoo! and you are given the options in the box shown where you can delete Yahoo! as an option. Maybe that will stop it reverting there if it’s no longer an option…
I think it is a language barrier as much as anything. Computer people use terms that are not complicated but foreign, and visa versa. I was just explaining my trouble shooting procedure for the sparkler on the grill and the wife’s eyes just glazed over. Not a clue what I was talking about. Tip: make sure the battery is installed the right way.
We were in Germany and a couple of us tried to ask a guy where the laundromat was. He had no clue what we were talking about and we didnt understand a word he said. It’s that old sender/receiver model.
Did you ask him to direct you to the local waschsalon?
Now that we are in the age of the Smartphone, it’s really easy to translate–unlike The Good Old Days.
Heh heh. Before smart phones. Friend made the motion of using a wash board and went washi washi washi. We still laugh about it. I think the German thought we were nuts. I only know what a wash board is cause my grandma had one.
I didn’t knock the wood hard enough, I guess. The little “snowflake” (as I named it b/c it’s a little white Prius) threw a P3006 code yesterday. All by itself, that’s the death knell for the hybrid pack. I could fix it. But enough already. It owes me nothing. I bought it for something like $2700 (call it $3K after taxes/title/tags) and drove it all over for like 8 yrs and 50K-ish miles at about 46 mpg. I’ll miss it tho. But it’s not worth it to me to fix it.
It doesn’t change my initial comment. 20+ years of HV battery life.
I’m on the market for another new-to-me, used “snowflake.”
Very true, but I wanted a gas guzzling V6 and not the new at the time gas guzzling 4cyl turbo… lol
Mainly I didn’t want to be the guinea pig for the all new gen 4 model out… So I bought as close to new as I could find…
