Only in Baltimore.
To add fuel to the street fighter movie train wreck fire. Just realized the dude playing Ryu is a skinny Filipino dude I used to compete against back in the day. Lmfao. Heās a really good martial artist but Def looks nothing like ryu
Daaaaaayum.
Sheās got a really cute tummy.
And the empire slowly starts to decay and fall
Good.
Lady walks into my store with a package and a prepaid shipping label on her phone. She asks if we can print it. I point to our public computer and say āYou are welcome to hop on our public computer, access your email and print out your label for free.ā
Her: āI donāt know how to do that.ā
Me: āā¦ Use the printer?ā
Her: āIāve never done my email from a computer before.ā
Me: āā¦so hereās my store emailā¦ā
Sooooā¦she has gotten by on merely her phone for everything?
A sign of the timesā¦
Yup. Its nuts. I have people come in here who cant access their email on the computer because they donāt know their email password. Just have that shit saved in their phone and leave it at that.
I have a laptop but I next to never use it. My phone has a bigger HD and can generally do everything the laptop can do at a much smoother pace and better presentation. Having apps instead of having to constantly go to different websites is also a huge time saver as well.
I also hate using my laptop because since post-brain surgery I canāt type very well due to nerve damage in my left hand so itās to āfindā keys and type consistently.
Only having to use my thumbs though for my phone? Fucking awesome.
Man Iāve never had brain surgery and whenever I have to type on my phone I wanna throw it out of the fucking window.
I donāt recommend it. It sucks. I had to do extremely intense rehab for 5 months and thereās a lot of shit that I still canāt do or that I struggle with.
Also, when I worked IT a lot of shit was setting up servers to peoples phones and laptops so they could work and manage shit from home or on the go. So I kinda learned how to ātypeā on a phone that way?
And since theyāve been available Iāve always had a smart phone. From blackberries to iPhones. So I learned how to type that way at the early ages of smart phones.
Edit: I was one of those douche bags who had a sidekick when they first came out and had the slider keyboard phones too.
I miss my blackberry, probably one of the best phones I had in regards to typing. Wonderful phone.
Interestingā¦ I always wondered why Galaxy Rangers didnāt seem to catch onā¦I thought it was a potentially cool concept, but never really got a chance to check out the showā¦ Toy Galaxy did a vid on it:
Yea but youād know how to get into your email with your important emails full of important stuff should you lose your phone for some unforseen reason, correct?
Yeah. Blackberries were super cool. I loved them. They just couldnāt keep up with how fast mobile tech was moving and kept releasing unfinished product after unfinished product.
I meanā¦yeah. But not to side with the lady but I also understand. Smart devices like phones and tablets have been slowly replacing computers because they can do almost everything computers can do. Sometimes even better.
So like, itās silly she doesnāt know how to access email on a PC but st the same time Iām not surprised.
I would be stunned if I didnāt have old people coming in asking me how to address a letter.
Iām not surprised by it, but I am disappointed by it. You should know how you access your email from a device that isnāt your phone, and you should deffinitly know your fucking password. Its too important anymore to not know how. Get yourself together, come on now.
This is me with my parents on a pretty consistent basis. Theyāre constantly asking me to do shit with their tech. Usually it involves their Apple ID name and password, or a password to a websiteā¦etc. theyāre like āoh, I donāt knowā or one time my mom said āoh, Iām supposed to remember those?ā
Like wtf.
Iāve been doing everything I can to make them not tech illiterate but sometimes I feel like just crash dummying into a wall to end it all. My dad is slowly getting it though. He always says he feels stupid for asking so many questions but he wants to learn. He actually offered to and did buy my old Apple Watch when I upgraded to the newest one. Which surprised me.
I mean, even Iām guilty of forgetting a password every now and again but itās usually due to not being at that site for a looooooong time. I have all my passwords stored on Keychain and I have the super important ones (banking, Apple ID, amazon, social security disability account etc) written down but Iāll draw blanks from time to time.
I actually just had to call Apple support about a week ago to reset my MacBook Airās password because I hadnāt used my laptop in so long I couldnāt remember the login password to access the desktop. I felt super stupid.