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Old 23rd September 2025 | 15:00
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Started off playing with a ZX80 someone gave me in 1983, trying to learn coding from a manual. Didn't really get it... moved on to using various types of PC at work and home and got quite adept at creating batch files to automate certain things and later working with HTML code but still not my forte.

What does irritate me is learning to use a new device and two months later finding an update has changed all sorts of things; example my Samsung phone no longer gives you switch off options if you press the on button for N seconds, no, now you have to go and find an off button at the top of the screen...

My 99 year old aunt sends emails from a Chromebook and has done so for two years - people say "can't you show her how to do X, Y and Z". No, it's enough that she can do what she does, she'd never even used a typewriter before including during 40 years with the Tax Office...
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