After a good run on the email (months without errors) we are back to the old problem – can’t log in (can’t even get a page that allows me to attempt to log in) and a message telling me there is a problem (which I can see, without a message) and that I should try later.
I generally start by suspecting BT is useless. Then I go through a variety of dark suspicions , usually hinging on cyber attacks by malevolent foreign powers. Then I decide BT is useless. My evidence for this is that my other email account never seems to have the same problem. I just tried it. It is working perfectly.
I would use the alternative, but it just seems like a lot of trouble to change addresses. So far, I have avoided doing it. When I changed debit cards last year – just a simple renewal rather than a major change – it appeared to be a lot more complicated than previous changes. I have not become more complicated, but it seems the systems of various companies have become more complicated. One insisted I signed up to their app before I could change card details and TESCO failed to deliver my groceries because I had missed ticking a box when changing details.
It’s amazing how much we now rely on email and the internet. I’m sure that one day civilisation will end just because we can’t access the internet. Nobody uses cash these days and we would all have to turn to looting or starve.
However, I’m sure world governments will already have a plan in hand. After all, they can’t really concerned just about religious wars, oil and sending people into space with a non-functioning $23 million toilet, can they?
Well, that used to be what I thought. Now I’m not so sure.
In years to come will someone make a film of how a handful of billionaires turned world politics into a real life version of Risk: The Game of Global Domination?
or we don’t know happened …
🙂 That too. Now I have more things to worry me . . .
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well yeah. and people don’t realize how close that reality is….sort of like we are all Nero…
It does worry me sometimes. Then again, I worry about lots of stuff that never happens.
when I was traveling last week I did wonder about people without smart phones who want to travel. I felt as if we needed access to be able to do anything. all our tickets were online, audio guides are Internet based and off our phone, we used mass transit via Google/apple pay. our thermostat in the room was app controlled as well as any requests we had for hotel like towels and such. we’ve made it impossible not to need it
Effectively, it is impossible for people like me to travel, and difficult even to live at home. One good solar flare or one massive hack attack from a foreign power could see civilisation collapse. IF you consider such massive phone use to be “civilisation”. Welcome back, by the way. 🙂
I am too nervous to make any changes to anything now after the fiasco I caused at Christmas when I tried to change two things on WP at the same time. Never again! I am prone to making mistakes and then panic when things go wrong. My friends at church discovered how inept I am during a Teams session as we took part in a safeguarding course. I was asked to scroll down the side bar (?!) using the touch pad on someones’ laptop and instead of a lot of earnest faces looking at us from the screen I presented our group with a selection of brightly coloured cushions for sale from Amazon.
I have only ever participated in one meeting like that. It didn’t go well and I ended up emailing my comments in. I imagine cushions were a welcome addition to a safeguarding course.
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And the trouble about turning the world into a game of Risk is that the way to win that game is to be very honest until the moment comes to make one big betrayal. You don’t win by having friends. You win by hurting your friends.
It feels like betrayal nearly every day these days.
The future is here, for good and for ill. Hope the problem isn’t too hard to resolve.
It seems to be cured. Annoying when it happens as I have grown to rely on it.
I suspect almost any directions I get from anywhere now, e.g. how do I really know it is B.T.? I err on the side of ignoring