[TR] Triumphs Digest, Vol 18, Issue 165

[John Macartney]

Hi, Odd,

Thank goodness you’re still with us and not having migrated to a totally cyber environment.

Happy Christmas

John


> On 16 Dec 2025, at 11:12, Odd Hedberg <odd at triumphclub.se> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:10:07 +0000
>> From: John Macartney <johnbmacartney at gmx.com>
>> To: 
>> Cc: triumphs at autox.team.net
>> 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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