today's luddite problem

Luke

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Luke
With each passing day, I am more and more out of touch with "technology".

I clicked on something on this forum while browsing using Firefox on a Windows computer and everything is displaying much larger than normal. I assumed it was a browser-related issue, but this magnifying glass phenomena is not carrying over to other web pages.

Even after I close the browser and re-open....cameraraderie is cartoonishly large.

What simple thing am i missing?
 
Most browsers have a "zoom" function. For example, in Chrome you can access it by hitting the 3-dot menu in the upper right or using the keyboard combination of "CTRL" & either the "+" key to zoom in our "-" key to zoom out.

In Firefox it's the same, you can either do CTRL & + or CTRL & - to zoom out or click on the 3-line menu in the upper right to check the zoom setting. If you're using the latest version of FF the zoom level should be displayed near the upper right.

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Has anyone else here had the phenomenon of inadvertently invoking something on a modern digital camera and could not figure out how to make it go away? I have.

At least three times, I've had to hit "total global reset" to make a camera stop doing something I did not wittingly ask it to do in the first place.

I suppose I could have thrown it at those kids on the lawn . . .

Cheers, Jock
 
My neighbor did that to his Nikon D3200, somehow disabled Autofocus from working on all lenses.
I used my standard approach to computers of pointing and clicking at random until the computer does exactly what I want. Some obscure setting that was so badly translated into anything meaningful was the culprit.

I still use DOS professionally for embedded systems. A young engineer asked me how I get drivers for new hardware. Then he paused, looked at me, and said "you just write all of the drivers yourself." I answered, "it's just typing."

The Cat we had when first married knew how to sit in my lap, reach up, and hit Control-Alt-Delete. He also tried to drive the car, but could not reach the peddles.
 
Has anyone else here had the phenomenon of inadvertently invoking something on a modern digital camera and could not figure out how to make it go away? I have.

At least three times, I've had to hit "total global reset" to make a camera stop doing something I did not wittingly ask it to do in the first place.

I suppose I could have thrown it at those kids on the lawn . . .

Cheers, Jock
Let's just say I'm NOT going to put a number on how many times.

There's a thread over on mu-43 about the desire for a simplified m4/3 body and many over there just don't get it. They're all, "you don't have to use all the features" or "the basic controls are simple enough"........

:doh:
 
Has anyone else here had the phenomenon of inadvertently invoking something on a modern digital camera and could not figure out how to make it go away? I have.

At least three times, I've had to hit "total global reset" to make a camera stop doing something I did not wittingly ask it to do in the first place.

I suppose I could have thrown it at those kids on the lawn . . .

Cheers, Jock
I was sure I did that with my XH1 until I finally realized it was actually broken. One sign of complexity is when broken becomes a hard state to identify.
 
I have fairly advance cameras, and yet my phone is about 5 years old in tech. I'm actually amazed when my friends show me what their new phones can do. Though I still wouldn't replace my cameras for an expensive smartphone! 😁
 
My wife and daughter know how to send texts to my cellular telephony device.
Write the text on a piece of paper, open the phone, then flip it shut.

It's not that I don't understand technology...

US20030172336A1 - Self synchronous scrambler apparatus and method for use in dense wavelength division multiplexing - Google Patents

US7099579B2 - Bridge terminal output unit - Google Patents

I just do not like having to deal with Bloat-ware. Most software these days make use of devices overly complex. It's been made into a game.
Just implement the functions required to operate the device and leave it at that. KISS. Probably why I prefer the M9 and M Monochrom, have no plans to update them until they cannot be repaired anymore. Same with the Df- I read the manual the first weekend getting it, setup everything I needed, and use the control dials for everything but formatting the cards and setting the non-CPU lenses.
 
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