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I'm really learning to hate technology.

I used to be good with it. I used to be smart. Apparently at this point I should sell a kidney and buy a Mac (a used one).

I'm probably just exhausted from learning things that I only ever need to learn once, for one thing, and then I don't have to remember them. But shit it's fucking exhausting.

Every goddamned day it seems is a new "minor hiccup" preventing me from moving forward. I either invest hours of my time to troubleshoot (something that pays worse and worse dividends every single time I do it), or I give up on it.

I would be absolutely fine if being stupid didn't cost vast amounts of money and time.

Getting dumber as I get older is going to make life exponentially more difficult.

You probably want to mute this thread. The frustration is mounting and it's getting harder and harder to not feel stupid.

So I will continue to bitch about it.

Sorry.

If there are any actual experts on getting a DSLR camera to properly work under I would appreciate a DM. I've read the documentation and done the things that I understand, but there is a lot that I *don't* understand and trying to learn it seems to be an uphill battle.

@roknrol
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it’s likely as much things you “know,” getting in the way as anything you don’t, you’d
probably find it easier if you’d never seen a camera before. They keep changing things to disable existing knowledge, take everything out of our hands.