Thursday, April 16, 2020

Technical nincompoop

Just managed to miss most of a Zoom meeting. On Tuesday I struggled to hear the first part of the Zac's bible study on Zoom.

I'd like to say it's all down to technical incompetence - an acceptable quirk at my age - but I just got the time wrong this morning.

On Tuesday I could hear people talking but not loudly. I adjusted the volume on the monitor, the knob on the speaker, and twiddled with everything I could find. Then I traced the source of the noise: I had my headphones plugged in to my computer but not on my head.

Now I think of it does even that count as  technical incompetence? Or just stupidity?

5 comments:

Marie Smith said...

Lol. It sounds so familiar to me Liz! I wonder why?

PipeTobacco said...

Haha! I have to tell you that I have had at least three bouts of frustration in a similar vein. Myself in the last couple of weeks.... I have been recording voice lectures for my U students for all of my classes done this Covid Quiet period started. My Internet is a bit sketchy at times so sometimes the system we have to use gets shut off in the middle of a recording and it is lost. I have had on three different occasions tried to view my lecture..... and then I start cussing under my breath because there is no audio and I am thinking it did not work.... only to realize I too had the headphone/microphone still plugged in as I was trying to listen to it on my computer’s speakers!!!!

PipeTobacco

Liz Hinds said...

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

That's how I always feel too when trying to master a new technology! I'm a walking Boomer stereotype.

pam nash said...

Uhmm - technical confusion (that's how I explain doing similar things!)