Am Thu, 5 Apr 2018 10:38:50 +0100, schrieb David B.:

I'm not a 'techie' but if I *can* help you in any way, just ask.

When I did my apprenticeship computers used thermionic valves (tubes!)
so I do have lots of experience under my belt! ;-)

Much appreciated to find a fellow sentient adult on these newsgroups!

Most of us were trained in the days of vacuum tubes, and we were taught how
to back up our facts like intelligent adults should.
http://i.cubeupload.com/tWHyBq.jpg

To give you an example of my time frame, here's my iPad and phone next to
one of my random textbooks (I changed fields of study a few times, both
undergrad and grad, back east during the height of the cold war).
http://i.cubeupload.com/nYpKZF.jpg

What's amazingly different, with Apple users overall, is their historic and
repeated incredibly unfathomable lack of attention to technical detail.
http://i.cubeupload.com/3ffdPL.jpg

Like you, I never stop learning, and it's all about detail, where, for
example, here are some of my 'self-help' books in the days of the IBM PC.
http://i.cubeupload.com/TLd0LW.jpg

Here are a set of my more recent tecnical self-help books in engineering.
http://i.cubeupload.com/pJZUtb.jpg

The point is that, on these newsgroups, the average Apple user doesn't seem
to have grown up yet to the point that they can fathom even the /slightest/
amount of technical detail.

For example, the question asked of this thread would *never* have been
answered on this newsgroup simply because the Apple users don't have that
kind of technical knowledge that it takes to step outside of what "Big
Brother" marketing tells them. They can only push buttons.

So it's with great respect that you exist, since I'm so frustrated with
these little Apple children that you can't believe.

The reason I'm frustrated is that I don't know Apple products at all. I
really don't. And yet, when I ask even /simple/ questions of the Apple
posters, they prove time and again that they know even /less/ than I do.

It happens every time.
They're afraid to admit it.
But it happens every time.

It's so frustrating because they lie blatantly about Apple functionality.
They lie more than they tell the truth, in fact.

So it has come to the point that they're worthless since their accuracy
rate is no better than the monkey taking the psychology test.

Since I care about finding the answer, I have to go to the /adult/
newsgroups to find the answer (which is what I did in this case).

I hope you can understand my frustration since I'm in the middle of the
Silicon Valley where most of the people act like adults, and not like most
of the people how post to this newsgroup.

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Sorry for the rambling but I have to run so I hacked that out without
organizing it so it's how my mind works.