Not everything is complicated. You can buy many things that need no programming, you just need to look for them. I just bought a coffee maker that has one switch on it. Put your water and coffee in and turn it on. When the coffee is done it stops perking. Pour the coffee and turn it off.
Ya buy it, bring it home and it doesn't work. The instructions are written in broken English by Chinese school children working for a bowl of rice and a fish head.
Remember OLD SCHOOL E? He once had a job rewriting manuals for some auto company after having received them from Japan or China. I forget which one exactly...Toyota or Honda. He'd receive the manuals and proceed to make them readable. The people who wrote them did write with shall we say less than perfect grammar and he said some things were a hoot they were so funny. But not helpful to the reader of the manual who expected words that made sense. So I understand what you mean but way back in those good old I don't remember ever having that problem. A TV especially. My dad bought our first TV in 1948. We were so excited. He plugged it in adjusted the rabbit ears and VOILA! It ain't that way now by a long shot! You (not you but Jim)has to PROGRAM the TV remote to talk to the TV or it won't work. No button to push any more. I liked getting up off my butt to change the channel. You got exercise. These days you sit and don't have to get up for anything except going to the bathroom. Progress! SHEESH! Thank you for your reply. Old School (if he were still allowed to be here and not BANNED) would have loved it! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at June 23, 2020 9:01 AM MDT
I had a planetarium projector for the planetarium that I taught astronomy in at my last school. It worked once. Repair people came and said they fixed it, but it still didn't work. I decided to replace the lamp and the manual was written in Chinese. I had to the vague pictures. I replaced it, but it still didn't work. I gave up.
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