In answer to the thread title, I get by with help from my daughters.
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Aaawwwww bless 'im that’s old fashioned courtesy!
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I have that absoutely nothing happens .
I have to confess my computer wouldn’t ‘find’ my phone using this method. So I had to transfer all photos to the memory card, take that out and use a card reader in the computer.
My son can’t make tomorrow night ,because of covid
I’m going to try and figure out this Tom,Tom,sat nav, YouTube would be a great place to start…
I have at last managed it .
By opening the photos app on my laptop and plugging in the iPhone .
It took a time because it couldn’t find it first and then kept saying it hadn’t done it .
Now I have these photos everywhere .
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Perhaps Jazzi will be able to help.
I wouldn’t have a clue where to start, you’re well ahead of me.
Completely like me. Shared laptop at home. No smartphone, Problem renewing my DBS security. All my ID documents had to be photographed and sent as a QR code, Gave up in the end and carried on without one.
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There comes a time when one has to acknowledge that it wasn’t your gate that was left open or, your horse that bolted 
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I’m just glad that I no longer have to worry about keeping up with the technology and systems at work. That stuff used to drive me to distraction - clunky, non-intuitive and never having a help function that was helpful. It seems so much easier to only have to worry about an old PC, a fairly new smartphone and a kindle. Even my car is much more electrical than electronic.
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i like plug it in switch it on
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They were talking about “AI psychosis” on a news report the other day. Some people prefer to live in a world with AI “friends” who tell them what they want to hear rather than deal with reality.
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I just don’t know where the world is going with all this Tech stuff…
I certainly won’t be riding along with it.
As long as I can post on the forum, have a delve into X (formerly twitter) and youtube, that’s enough time spent on the computer for me…
unfortunately some of us have to deal with this at work. We (in my job) are being pushed into using AI to do more and more of our thinking work. It’s happened very quickly and I don’t think they have thought through the psychological effect on ordinary workers of this mass experiment in social manipulation. It’s like tentacles of intrusion are entering every sphere of our lives with absolutely no control and very little understanding of the long term effects.
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Very fair points.
Another issue is that AI is being used to justify significant lay-offs. And as the AI technology is best suited to more mundane, fairly simple administrative tasks (summaries of meetings, research, report writing) this will mostly hit entry level jobs. What does that mean for people trying to enter the work place today? What does that mean for getting people with experience in the middle / senior roles in 5-10 years time?
The young graduates working for me say that the jobs market is incredibly poor at the moment. Competition for jobs is intense.
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People are becoming surplus to requirement, and physical and manual jobs are getting to be a thing of the past. Either go out running, play football or other sport, or go to a gym else you will turn into a very fat bored person watching box sets all day.
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I’d have thought that manual jobs will be fairly safe from the onslaught of AI. Plumbers, electricians, plasterers - all likely to be in demand for decades to come. Junior lawyer or accountant on the other hand - very easy to swap in AI for those roles.
There in demand now since all the skilled Polish blokes have gone home, and our young people are too busy getting qualifications in media studies or art and design…Who wants to work in the cold and get their hands dirty when you can work in a nice warm office or studio reading the news.
I have reached my level of incompetence with all things technological and am embracing it. That said, I managed to hook up a new printer to my lap top via WIFI… without having a hissy fit OR throwing said printer off the balcony. 
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