Yesterday I walked into the Verizon store.
The Bluetooth in the store turned my hearing aids up to extremely loud. It was audio hell. The sounds were distorted. I could not hear them or think
of what to do. Turned the hearing aids down, but it was still too loud to hear the guy. He punched numbers into my phone to call Verizon. The
music on hold was so loud I could not hear him. Tried turning down the phone. I was in a state of confusion and very stressed. Told the guy I could not hear him about three times.
Life as a geezer is not always great

Now it is funny. Was not at the time.
Not sure I can go back there. They might call the men with straight jackets.
Not that I was a crazy azz**** or anything.

Sounds awful. No pun intended.

Oh how awful!!

Loud noises that are 1) unexpected and 2) uncontrollable are the worse! It's very disorienting, besides being unpleasant and painful,

In grad school, the library I always went to had a security thing at the entrance (it beeped if you tried to steal a library book). If I walked through there and forgot to remove my headphones on listening to music, I got this horrible screech in my ears.

When w moved, we got a new home security thingy. Not too long ago, Mr. SK triggered it for the first time. It's different from our old one, and when the siren first started going off, I couldn't think of what it might be. Then when I realized and went to shut it off, thus going to stand right next to the siren, it was so loud I was disoriented and couldn't figure out what to do. I was standing there with my fingers in my ears for what seemed an oddly long time before I realized/remembered that I needed to punch in the code. Then I couldn't figure out how to do the punching with my fingers in my ears!

It's a miracle I pulled it together enough to disarm it before the police were called!

Which is all to say, you have my sympathy!

It sounds to me like bluetooth hearing aids aren't quite ready for prime time.

don't like devices that take orders from other devices. I don't need my refrigerator hooked up to the internet. Call me a Luddite.

Yesterday the hearing aids picked up the weather forecast from the Amazon Echo-Alexa. Have never paired the hearing aids with it. My phone must have picked the audio up.
Today nothing from it.
Seeing the audiologist Monday.

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Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
don't like devices that take orders from other devices. I don't need my refrigerator hooked up to the internet. Call me a Luddite.

You're a Luddite.

- from one Luddite to another; takes one to know one

I don't buy technology because it does something that's kind of cool. I buy it if it does something I really want done and does not require much involvement. Buying things I have to charge was a huge commitment for me.

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I don't need my refrigerator hooked up to the internet.

+100.

There are some aspects of the "smart home" that make sense (kind of, not enough for me to spend money on them though). For example, water and temperature sensors in the basement to let you know of a leak or danger of freezing pipes when you're out of town. That sort of thing, ok, maybe. But a fridge that tells you you're out of milk -- while it also tracks your spending and sells that data? No, thank you.

Good grief!

The better hearing aids today include Bluetooth.
I am going to list what I want the buttons programmed to do for those times when a phone is not available for the audiologist to set up.
Wanted to be able to listen to music from my phone or tablet without disturbing others. That works.
Like being able to hear the phone GPS through the hearing aids. That also works.

My sister just got her first hearing aid, and it's one of those fancy-schmancy ones that Chas describes. She's only had them for about a month. I'll have to ask her what she thinks.

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Originally posted by ShiroKuro:

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I don't need my refrigerator hooked up to the internet.

+100.

There are some aspects of the "smart home" that make sense (kind of, not enough for me to spend money on them though). For example, water and temperature sensors in the basement to let you know of a leak or danger of freezing pipes when you're out of town. That sort of thing, ok, maybe. But a fridge that tells you you're out of milk -- while it also tracks your spending and sells that data? No, thank you.

Good grief!

I also don’t need Facebook in my car.