When Gadgets Go Wrong
Since I started the thread in heaven about new gadgets in our homes, I feel I am entitled to start another thread on when gadgets go wrong on the opposite board.
This morning my Pixel Pro 9 XL acted like it was possessed by a demon. It refused to start up like it had for the past six months. The battery would not charge. It was frozen in airplane mode. It just kept cycling through. And, it was as hot as blazes.
I fought it for three hours before I took it to the store where I bought it. Since it was still in warranty, they told me I should send it to Google, but I told them I needed a phone like today, not a week or ten days from now. I told them I would buy another phone if I had too. I was pretty panicky at the time.
Then, all of the sudden, it stopped trying to cycle through. We think I may have had a corrupted program on it, so we had to do a factory reset, which meant I lost all the data on the phone. Thank God for the things I had just put in the cloud a couple of days ago.
Moral of the story. Make sure you back everything up because when modern technology goes crazy, it is pure hell to experience.
This morning my Pixel Pro 9 XL acted like it was possessed by a demon. It refused to start up like it had for the past six months. The battery would not charge. It was frozen in airplane mode. It just kept cycling through. And, it was as hot as blazes.
I fought it for three hours before I took it to the store where I bought it. Since it was still in warranty, they told me I should send it to Google, but I told them I needed a phone like today, not a week or ten days from now. I told them I would buy another phone if I had too. I was pretty panicky at the time.
Then, all of the sudden, it stopped trying to cycle through. We think I may have had a corrupted program on it, so we had to do a factory reset, which meant I lost all the data on the phone. Thank God for the things I had just put in the cloud a couple of days ago.
Moral of the story. Make sure you back everything up because when modern technology goes crazy, it is pure hell to experience.
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Our printer is pretty new and hates to talk to our tablets and laptops. They can send people to space but printers seem to be a perpetual problem. 🙄
I don't trust companies that want you to backup to their cloud.
Doublethink, Admin
I have a wee plate with teeth, bought in spain - you still have to watch your fingers!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VvyUdga6aBcYmvHN6
For whisking a batter or creaming a cake mixture I have a 55 year old machine still in working order.
Always a good bet. As is a visit to thingiverse to see if someone has created a model of the part that can be 3d printed.
Meanwhile I have been trying to repurpose my old laptop and it is refusing to start. Very perplexing and none of my usual tricks are working.
It was not heaven when my gadget was acting like Hal in The Space Odessey
Are 3d printers as recalcitrant as 2d printers?
I've not used them myself, but from what I've heard: yes, but for rather different reasons. 2D printers are heavily proprietary, and printer companies are notorious for finding new ways to screw money out of people in ways that mess with functionality; 3D printers tend to be more open, and can use a lot of free software and are highly configurable, with the downside that you tend to need to know what you're doing a bit more. Often, though, if all you're needing is a small part, a kindly hobbyist will do it for fun.
Yeah, for anything more complex the mix of settings and design is derived empirically and with experience. There are maker spaces which have open evenings/open sessions for non-members, though I'd imagine they are thin on ground in the more far flung areas of the UK
Today I opened the photo section up. and there they were. Apparently, my icloud storage repopulated the phone.