Things that make you frown :(
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iman29
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Give him a Blackberry and tell him to connect it to AOL see what comes back
JerseyPete
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Is he the old relative of the CEO and the person that you have to train to be your boss??
Hell, I will be 60 next month and even I have a smart phone and BT mouse. This guy must be really old.
Cassinonorth
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what kinda of janky ass bluetooth mouse are you using?
bluetooth needs pairing, generic wireless needs a receiver plugged in.
apparently he has a lot of copy editing/editorial experience. i just don't think he's ever had to set up anything "technical"... i have a feeling he's used to going into an office and someone's already set his stuff up for him.
and luckily no... not my boss... one of the other copy editors will become my "supervisor" but in reality all that guy has to do is coordinate and approve my vacation requests... and cover for me when i'm out (hence the training). new guy is strictly copy editing.
flip phone, wow. I got nothing!
JDurk
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serviceguy
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It's not the mouse, it's the computer (if it doesn't have a built in BT you need a BT dongle).
please find me a laptop made in the last decade that doesnt have bt built into it? my last full blown laptop purchase for myself in 2008 had bluetooth built into the wifi card. . . . . (and only govt would disable bluetooth on its users)
Cassinonorth
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Totally conflated wireless mice and Bluetooth. Wireless are far more common tbf.
serviceguy
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Sure, but I was referring to your post, it's not the mouse, it's the computer (requiring a dongle to connect to a BT mouse).
ekuhn
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I'd go back to a beeper and find a payphone if I could.....
Fat Trout
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Johnny Utah
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Best thing I have done for my personal life
Think about this, I had to use another phone to take this photo😂. Generally the iPhones stay at home if I am not in the clock or taking pictures for the BIYF.
It took several weeks for it to kick in that 99% of the stuff on an iPhone is not needed or is something I can wait until I am at phone for. It made my time away from work much better.
90% of none work use on an iPhone is becoming someone else’s entertainment or paycheck.
I decided to take my time back.
ekuhn
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All the guys I know with flip phones are telling me they are no longer supported at VZW and are being forced to upgrade.
Johnny Utah
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Mine is through Verizon, I got it during COVID as I was handing out the government $ any my phone never stopped - all hours of the night.
When I went to the Verizon store I had to really push it on them that I wanted it. It was a ten minute conversation.
I think it is $48 or so a month, ten people have the number. When I want to be in my own world it is pretty sweet.
I would have gone to nothing, but when my old man was battling cancer I wanted to have a phone just in case something happened.
pibbles
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Mouses or mice?
Mouses.
And many Bluetooth mouses (fuck it, mice) come with a USB receiver so you can use them on devices that don't have bluetooth, or just plain easier setup in some cases.
And it blew my mind recently when I bought a really nice ergonomic keyboard/mouse/numerical-keypad combination made by Microsoft that isn't Bluetooth but came with a USB dongle. And requires AA/AAA batteries.
So worth it however.
