Aggravationstation

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

CDs were a total game changer but they're fragile as all hell. Everybody said that CDs were dust proof and scratch proof when they came out which was bullshit. I can't find it but the BBC's Tomorrow's World did a segment where they spread butter and jam all over a CD then put it into a CD player and it supposedly worked. Closest thing I could find was this Australian show from 1982 where they said you could bump a CD player and it would keep playing. I had a Discman and you had to hold it totally level or it skipped immediately https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Heople. Heople who need heople...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thank you. I'm far too lazy to do that myself these days.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I heard that. "Smeeeeg- ma"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Undone? Suggests you flashed each other to make a point during the argument.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Who is this guy? I've seen him in a few different memes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My non-tech literate aunt has been running her Ebay business from a laptop running Fedora with unattended upgrades for 3 years now. She manages her expenses in Libreoffice calc and accesses everything else through Chrome and prints labels on an old USB HP printer. I don't think she's even noticed I switched her over from Windows 10 when her machine was getting slow.

My Dad's laptop is also on Fedora (though he mainly just uses an Android tablet these days) and I intend to install it on my Grandma's PC when Windows 10 stops being supported. So for the people who'd be happy with something like a Chromebook, which is a good chunk of older folks, it's perfect and I can easily provide support.

That being said if I had to deal with helping kids who wanted to game and use Bluetooth bits and pieces surrounded by RGB crap then yea outside of a few well supported options it could be a nightmare depending on what they've got.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

"Oh no, there goes Jokyo..."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Vomiting, barefoot and full of semen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Pretty much, but the comment I was replying to already contained most of the words I knew so just chipping in rat-arsed and fucked seemed a bit pointless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Rat-arsed, fizzled, fucked, fooked, fecked

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago
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