Re: repairs and obsolescence ish

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:

On 5/7/2025 1:52 PM, AMuzi wrote:

 

Girlfriend's new car came with one of those square tetris-ish symbols on
the glovebox door instead of an owner's manual. One is supposed to use a
portable telephone with that to access the cloud-based manual.
 
Words fail.

 
A few months ago some friends and I went in to a certain pub as we do at
least once a month. That time we asked for a beer list. The waitress
said "Just use your phone. There's the QR code."
 
We did, but politely voiced our objection to the idea. Why should a
customer have to download their file onto a smartphone? Why should a
smartphone even be required?
 
Others must have complained as well. Next time we visited we got a beer
list printed on actual paper.
 
 
 

Problem with them as well is they can be hacked ie get folks to click on
iffy links.

But yes on the whole the it’s online just use your phone doesn’t seem
wildly popular even among young adults.

Roger Merriman