Wen you're as old as I am, this highly technical crapola: PCs, webs, VCRs blinking 12:00, internets, pairing phones to cars, Bluetooth, and MORE can be pretty overwhelming. Most people my age simply turn it all over to their kids. Sort of a "Do me: don't tell me how - just do it."
Between having no kids for this essential convenience and being a curmudgeon, I won't put up with technology mystifying me. I know my Engineering Degree is 40 years old, but by gum I will NOT let it get to me. I will curse, go down many wrong paths and mostly Google how to fix things - which is pretty much what IT guys do, I am told. I am also not too proud to be seen at the Apple Genius Bar.
But the Universal rule to fixing a balky high-tech thingamabob is as simple as can be, and I look like a hero when I do this: unplug it and plug it back in. Heck, a 10-year old fixed a cable box problem my Sainted wife had with this high-tech trick. The kids on South Park fixed the Internet by doing this.
My laptop just tried to pull a "I can't hear you" moment on me - the old "Control-Alt-Delete" even failed to get a rise out of it.
You don't screw with a curmudgeon: I tore its battery out, plugged it back in, and voila! Back in business.
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