to think I cannot be the only person who sees a new phone/laptop/tablet as a major fucking annoyance?

[PyongyangKipperbang]

Boyfriend laughing his ARSE off at me being pissed off that I have to set up my new laptop. He reminded me that I was the same with my new phone. He said that to "most" people a new phone, say, is a nice exciting thing to have but I was just massively pissed off that I had reinstall apps, reload info, sort out passwords/fingers prints etc.

He is convinced that no one else is like but I disagree! New laptop is marginally better as thanks to firefox sign in all my passwords and history are there but ffs......its still annoying! Its the reason I will only upgrade when I absolutely have to, no early upgrades on my phone for me thank you!

AINBU am I?!

It's been a love hate. When I'm annoyed about setting things up now, I just think back to when software came on a dozen floppy discs.

I hate it. I get used to how the old one is, and the new drives me round the bend! I'm fine with it after a week or so but I spend that week quietly seething.

I'm so with you on this. My dc have spent many a good hour laughing at me rage over newer technology when i've finally replaced something.

"WHAT IS THIS!! Was it tooo difficult to take the back off to put a sodding sim card in? Oh clearly, because it's EASIER to find a fiddly little effing pin and flick the bloody thing out, putting scratches on this shiny phone, having to sit very very still holding your breath to put the card into a stupid little tray that wont shut if its half a mil out of place, WHO INVENTED this!!"

"Mum, get a grip"

Have just changed back to Samsung after having iPhone and a Huawei phone. Only got it on Saturday but not feeling as good as I remember Samsung being previously. Find it really annoying setting this kind of stuff up anyway. In my head my phone is supposed to make life easier -hopefully it'll get better once I get used to it...

I love tech, but totally agree. DH’s phone died last week of old age, took me a while to set it up for him ( DH is now disabled/ unable to do it for himself), a day later my computer died ( the one that runs media around the house ) so have had to set up the main household machine ( we have four others dotted about but my machine is the big boss). Also have a new NAS on order to replace our aging one, god knows how long it will take to transfer 16 TB of data to the new one... so time consuming.

YANBU. DH and I have the most outdated tech to avoid buying and setting up new devices.

I leave things in the box for days until dp gets so annoyed he opens them and forces me to set them up. I would rather have a broken phone then set up a new one

YANBU.

Work sent me a swanky, new, top of the range all singing all dancing laptop last month.

It's currently in its box and I am still using the chunky old one with broken and missing keys.

My DCs are beside themselves with the concept of my not having actually switched the new one on yet.

One of the joys of Apple is that al your stuff transfers over. A Google/gmail account will also bring over all your internet passwords etc to different devices.

I totally feel your pain. I hate it so much. I don't give a shit about the latest technology just want a phone that I can browse Internet, make calls, send messages and take photos. Don't want voice activation, finger tip locking or any of that stuff.
I took about 2 minutes choosing my new phone (was forced to upgrade as old screen completely broke). A couple of days after it arrived I realised it doesn't even have a headphone port. Wtf. Had to purchase wireless headphones. Just let me use normal £3 headphones. Daft. Hate the wireless ones. They claim it's for environmental reasons but pretty sure it's to make you purchase their wireless headphones. I've had the same wired pair for absolute years and now can't use them.
Hope you get it all sorted

I also leave things in boxes forever and don't actually look at them until I need them right now and its all panic and stress. I bought a Go Pro to go diving with a few months before lockdown. I used it twice and one time I switched it off when I thought I'd switched it on, so obviously filmed nothing. The second time I didn't charge it, so it was completely flat so couldn't use it on one of the best dives I've ever been on

Needless to say I've not dived anywhere for about 18 months now and the Go Pro has been accompanying DP on all his lockdown mountain biking round our local woods.

But YANBU on the phones. It's just another boring chore. I'm hoping my current phone lasts forever so I don't ever have to do it again.

I also felt the same when we had an extension built and we got a new kitchen. Everyone was talking as if it was some huge exciting opportunity where I got to have fun browsing, choosing, designing etc but to me all it was was builders and kitchen fitters asking me questions to which I didn't know the answer, lots of pressure about not getting it wrong, having to choose between several options that all seemed fine, so I'd just say 'I'll have whatever's cheapest but not complete rubbish' or point randomly at things without looking at them and say 'I'll have that one'.

Nope. You are not the only one OP! My iPhone is falling to bits but I just can’t face buying a new one..

I knew Apple had hooked me for life when last time I got a new phone, I just waved it near the old one and ta da, everything transferred over.

I only use Apple so find it all easy and seamless, DH uses Microsoft and Android and swears a lot when setting up a new phone or laptop.

@PyongyangKipperbang

I am currently breaking my own typo personal best as the keys on this laptop are a nanometre smaller than on my old one! Oh the RAGE I am getting because of that!!!

I just want my new phone to switch on and do everything my old phone did. Is that really so much to ask?!

Oh shit.

I've turned into my mother havent I?

I know what you mean. This is one of the joys of an iPhone. It does it for you and your new one works just like the old one.

I would rather keep using a broken phone than set up a new one

Yup me too!

And add to that the condescending ~brats~ staff who work in the places where one procures these things, and I have to do deep breathing at the very thought of an uograde/repair.

I currently have several numbers blocked on my phone as I'm due for an upgrade.

For me it's not the amount of time it takes but there are loads of settings I've got just how I want them but don't notice til they've gone!

I've been working on my new laptop for a week, yesterday noticed the " and @ were the wrong way round - turns out American keyboard is switched on

I love it!
The level of rage - really??

I couldn't agree more. I can't stand having to fuck around sorting out a new phone. In fact, I often delay doing certain things until it becomes totally unmanageable.

The exception is when I bought my gaming PC - loved setting that up and choosing all of my settings.

If you want to know true pain, try migrating WhatsApp photos and videos from Android to iOS or vice versa.

yanbu
edpecially when the drive is to have everything with apps.
work stuff at least for me comes with everything pre-installed.

I agree OP.

I would rather a trip to the dentist than have to set up a new phone.
My DD recently got a new she loves the whole process, the set up, transferring data etc.
To me it's all as boring as beans.
I only get new devices when old ones die.

YANBU

I also leave new devices in boxes untouched for days/weeks.

thing is it all the bloody passwords, I don't remember all the obscure ones I make, although I hide them on scraps of paper hidden randomly about my bedroom, but I never put what the password is for, because y know 'security' 🤣

I don't have a 'Google' account, I register a new one on every new phone(using a stupid name and throwaway passeord), because y know don't want google tracking and having all my life 🤣

I know I make my life harder but was brought up in a very techy house, with all the big brother paranoia that goes with it. I blame my dad.

This is why I’m now a slave to Apple, setting up a new phone just requires my iCloud password and then it brings everything over for me.

I killed my work laptop a couple of years ago. Dropped a full glass of water on it, no way I was getting it back. So work sent me a new one and it was Windows 10 - so all the little tiles instead of the traditional windows set up. It’s two years later and I still can’t find anything! I’ve got the applications I use even 50% of the time pinned to the task bar because I have absolutely no idea where they live otherwise. I have to use the search function any time I need an application that I forgot about. My task bar has no more space now, so I can’t pin anymore to that. The worst thing about my new laptop is I got a bundle - laptop, wireless keyboard and mouse, all the same brand. If it’s all the same brand, why is my ctrl key in a different location on my laptop than on my wireless keyboard?

YANBU. There’s nothing exciting about a new phone (unless you’re my teen who stands in line for the cast off)

New phones are never quite the same, I have to spend a bit of time finding the exact way that I can hold them to type while lying in bed.

That goes for all tech.