"I live on $710.00 a month, what exactly am I supposed to cut?"

[Trillo]

155. Making those "free" wifi connections can be terribly difficult

A local grocery store has such wifi spot. I needed to use computer after visiting bank. OS was Ubuntu. In order to connect, I had to use three different browsers (and which I had preloaded, one can't install a new program, even if its opensource, without access). The access ISP had some kind of firewall, and a document which needed to be signed and submitted, something about "following the law". The browser that was able to make the connection, would not submit the form. One browser called Epiphany, which is usually very good for such purposes, would not work, as part of the form required images, maybe they were captchas, that the browser wouldn't display, perhaps they were using some kind of cross site scripting. (I don't recall all the precise details)

The bottom line is, that if I wasn't sort of a computer enthusiast, I woudn't have been able to make the connection, and I was simply also "lucky" that I had multiple browsers installed. It wasn't easy to do. I would never expect the older generation to be able to do it, they did not "grow up" with computers, they're also often dealing with declining mental faculties.