When I log off my Hotmail account, I get to view gems like an article from Bob Larkin at Best Life on July 10, 2018 titled 50 things no man over 50 should own. Item # 23 was:
“Young guys cling to their electronics manuals with white
knuckles, terrified they’ll need them if something goes wrong with their TV or
computer. But by 50, you realize those manuals are pretty much useless after
awhile. If you don’t know where the on-off switch is by now, you never will."
After setting up that electronic gizmo you won’t need the
quick start guide anymore. They showed you where to plug in the cables, and how
to find the power switch. Toss it.
But either now or much later the full instruction manual (which
you might have to download) can be very handy. On May 20, 2018 I blogged about More
nightlight technology – default settings and doohickeys. That post discussed
how I searched the .pdf file of the manual for my new Roku TV to find how to
shut off the annoying bright white LED. On a computer there might be a
motherboard battery that eventually needs replacement. You really should RFTM
(Read That Fine Manual).
My Weber natural gas grill quit working early this summer. When
I looked in the manual I found out that to get at (and clean) the air inlet
screens for the burners I just had to pull off the control knobs and remove the
horizontal sheet metal cover.
The man reading was adapted from an image at the Library of
Congress.
No comments:
Post a Comment