silasmariner

Can she learn to love him?

No, not really. Just meant that, like, it's not really that it's different to someone else doing it; more like, that it's bad whoever does it I guess

Many years ago, my aunt bought an old, terribly specced laptop and couldn't get Windows to run on it. I installed Ubuntu and everything was fine - she could check her email and browse toxic conspiracy theories on Facebook and all was good with the world.

Two years later when visiting I got my first support request - would I mind showing her how to print something? No problem, but would you mind showing me what you were trying? She was selecting menu items to send to a virtual printer, not the one on the network. I show her the correct printer to send to and the thing prints. Easy. Out of curiosity, I check the outbox queue for the virtual printer. Over a hundred documents, going back two years.

For two years she'd been unable to print, and every single time she'd ever attempted to print something she'd followed the exact same steps that didn't work, and just accepted that this was the way things were.

SMH.

Well yeah because booting into Linux is so much faster

This is not a natural landscape. You don't get fields of grass like this without human intervention. This started in the bronze age, so just because your local human-made landscape is green, make no mistakes.

Bit by-the-by, though, because obviously computers are completely awesome, but real nature is not this placid homogeneous scene

Bonding time is important but it's also important to get into the habit of looking after the children as a father. Otherwise odds on you won't manage to bond very well with either your child or the mother 😅

There are two difficult problems in computer science. Naming things, and pairing with Bluetooth speakers.

Third degree embarrassment right here

Preach

I have actually said that exact phrase out loud on occasion. I used to be really quite introvert but then I found my group and I'm pretty extrovert with them! Sometimes so much so that I realise I've been 'holding forth' and should probably shut up and let everyone else have a go.

Han you actually give yourself an aneurysm by just being really angry? Or is anger just an early-warning sign?