[TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 18, Issue 165

[Odd Hedberg]

I'm still here John,
and _not_ on any of the newfangled 'social' media...  🙂
Cheers,
/Odd

On 2025-12-14 at 19:42 triumphs-request at autox.team.net wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:10:07 +0000
> From: John Macartney<johnbmacartney at gmx.com>
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> Subject: Re: [TR] The List is Less Busy These Days
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> Just out of casual interest, how many are still here in comparison to say the Millenium?
> I suspect not many.  I know BookFace has many adherents and I was on it for a while until
> I seemingly upset its algorithms by saying something they/it didn?t like and BookFace has
> informed me more than once when I try to rejoin that I?m banned for life. Okay Zuckerberg,
> I?m not in sympathy with your political inclinations anyway and I certainly got sick of
> receiving stuff your algorithms were convinced I?d like, when the reality was they bored
> me witless. I?ve been a reluctant subscriber to The Triumph Experience for a couple of
> years which also doesn?t grab me. It?s too Standard-Triumph model specific, people get
> upset when they accidentally post to the wrong forum and there has been some disquieting
> and very discourteous responses and no one seems to be particularly helpful. Mark?s monthly
> reminders tell me I?m logged to 6 Pack but I never get six pack stuff coming my way and
> even with the correct password, I can?t access it.
> The reality (for me) is that tech is going too fast for me to keep up with it and I refuse
> to spend any day of my surely now limited life transfixed by my smartphone screen that 99%
> of the rest of the world seems happy to do. I?m not enamoured by either my former iPhone
> or current Samsung as they?re both full of trash programs that hold zero interest and I
> can?t be bothered or motivated to learn how they work.
> Perhaps it?s better for me to once more return to the days of carbon paper, card index
> boxes and an abacus. At least I know how they work!
>
> Jonmac
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