Thankful for Technology

Alright! I'll say it. I'm grateful & thankful for technology. I've a hard time admitting it as I think a lot about being away from technology. I'm typically not on my smartphone, & I like to think that I'm only on my laptop for research purposes. Though I do realize that "research" can be an opinion kind of word.

I've a tablet, though I believe it's been over a year since I've even turned it on. It's an "old school" version where I need to use the Wi-Fi local to where I am when I'm using it as it's not like a phone where it carries its own data. Yep, it's an old tablet, & for just $10 a month for the service of maintaining the additional line, I can own & operate a "current version". 😂 There's simply no need.

What's been important to me in my technology? Well, I charge my phone from my laptop occasionally. I'm also a flash drive user. USB ports are necessary. And more than one at that. If I'm bothering to buy the laptop, I might as well be able to charge my phone (or download/upload to it) while I'm messing around on my flash drive. Or, more than one flash drive. 😏 Cause, yes, that has happened.

I also like having the calculator pad (in addition to the horizontal line-up of numbers above my qwertyuiop keys). It simply makes it, well, simpler to work on numerical figures & calculations. And having a the calculator pad typically ensures that there's a "delete" button included as well, which I do have, & I do enjoy having. 😊

The only thing I needed to add to my laptop was some more memory in so that it wouldn't work so hard to think & take care of me all the while I had it running. I bought this, got it installed, & my laptop's been thanking me ever since. 😂

Why didn't I get a Chromebook? Especially if speed is of the essence? Simply because I'm a gal who does plenty offline. I've many a DVD that I pop into the CD slot (which is also why I've needed a large [enough] size screen - to adequately view said DVDs). I've lots of MS & other documents which I simply have stored on my hard drive (& some on flash drives too 😎). I might like the speed of a Chromebook, though I'd be missing a lot of other accessories of which I've grown to expect in a device so closely resembling a typical laptop.

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What's also important to me in my technology, specifically my smartphone? Simplicity. With lots of storage space. I recently spent a calendar year with three different brand new phones. The first was the only joke. That's where the salesman took advantage of me (even though I spent plenty of time checking on as absolutely much about my situation as possible). Bottom line: He sold me a phone with hardly any space because he had them in stock & wanted to get them out the door since they weren't currently any longer. Of course I'd no real way to know this fact.

So I take a lot of photos. To be more specific: I take a lot of "notes" with my phone. This takes up tons of Gallery App space. And therefore plenty of space on my phone, less I make sure to maintain & clear off what's not as necessary as often as possible. This doesn't always happen so timely. 😞 This is also how I came to learn that I do take quite a few photos as I began getting notifications telling me that my memory was nearly gone (it was at 5% left).

When I discussed this with the salesman (a different salesman at a different franchise) I was ultimately sold a new phone (for just a bit more a month, though I'd already wholly owned that first one). It wasn't what I really needed & it cost too much for me to manage. I didn't like the phone's style & was generally let down all around. ...Which is why as I sat sitting around to pay a final-bill-of-the-year for something else which I despised, I happened to notice a huge banner in a competing phone company's store window about switching to them & them buying out your current plan. It was "the holiday season" so bargains were bound to be lurking around. I was hesitant as it'd been a rough year in phones & phone plans for me.

I figured I might as well check into it & so I did. I asked what they had to offer me & it turned out that their plans were better than the ones that my then current phone company offered. The switch just seemed to make sense. I showed them the phone that I'd been using at the beginning of the year, which fit my personality, though didn't hold enough space. That's when I learned that it wasn't available any longer, & much of the reasoning behind this was because of how little space it contained. Though a comparable phone with adequate space was now available. I saw it & was sold. It's this phone; the same phone I'm still using today.

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I greatly miss having a slide out keypad; that's the feature I've never been able to wrap my brain around having been discontinued. It was so easy to type any message...& to switch from one thing to another. Slide it out & slide it back, flip the device around & be back in the game. Now it's all gone because the manufacturer's gave up on the copula of us who'd still hung on. Those slide out keypad phones hardly had any memory; I think I was able to have one app on those phones before running out of space.

Despite "missing" my slide out keypad phones, one thing I definitely embrace now-a-days is the ability to take screenshots. & boy, do I ever. I certainly do. I said I take notes. Plenty of those notes are screenshots, though there are lots which are regular, ordinary photos too. The slide out keypad phones which I had didn't also have the function for the screen shot. Lose one awesome characteristic, gain another. 😕

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Now I'm even more excited because I've learned that, when I switch from being a post-paid customer to a pre-paid customer I'll save quite a bit of money each month & I'll get more for my money. Data, that is. If I run out, it's shut off until the next month (which is what I'd always wanted from my post-paid phone plans anyway) instead of charging me a whole bunch for a tiny overage. And also if I don't use up all my data, then even the tiniest amount will be rolled over until the following month with no limit as to how much data can be continuously rolled over. This I also like.

I'm a book reader of the tangible kind at heart. I most enjoy mixing things up in the kitchen, pulling out some yarn & a crochet hook, pulling together a weather-appropriate running outfit & lacing up, or heading out for a simple hike; I could easily go without technology for days, weeks, a month or more. And if I did I'd be remembering those days, those ones from just a few decades ago when we all were doing all of these things a lot more often...because technology, at least as it's used in our everyday lives today, didn't yet exist. 😜

Even though I can easily pass the time on by without using any technology. at. all. I very easily can spend time using technology too. It speeds up a lot of processes &  also saves plenty of time. I'm thankful that it does exist. Even if only to go surf this site. 💓😂💕




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