Comments on Profile Post by penguins

I miss how things used to just work. I could turn on a tube TV and it would be on within seconds. My current TV has to boot up and opens up a menu first. Also don't forget firmware updates

You're just spoilt by modern electronics. When I was a kid we used to turn stuff on wondering if anything would happen. The TV took so long to warm up that it came as a shock when it eventually sprang into life.

Guess why I'm not a valves (tubes) person!

@Thad E Ginathom - Yeah, there was sort of sweet spot with how things worked. Earlier versions weren't great but each generation got better to where you could just turn something on and it worked. Not just analog too. The NES and SNES were great in their simplicity too.

Now there is kind of an expectation that digital electronics should always be on.

Deeply engrained in me as a child: stuff was not left on. My dad even preferred to pull plugs out at the end of the day or when going out. And he was nowhere near OCD: this was just being careful.

So none of that warm-up-for-3-months, even if it is really for real, will ever be for me. I don't even leave the modem/router on when we both go out...

...And yes... I do expect it all to just work when I turn it back on. And I'm thankful that, for the past forty-plus years, it mostly has.