|
Theophany posted:Jesus said "I will rebuild this temple in three days." I could make a compiler in 3 days. and yet terry davis had to spend two years building it and another eight years updating it. loving shameful
|
#
?
Feb 22, 2024 22:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 07:56 |
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:if you set the connection to metered i think it wont use it for updates that is correct, and I did so as soon as I actually had uninterrupted access to the control panel, but the first login on a new windows machine has all kinds of poo poo you have to get through first actually I have set it up to use just a percentage of available bandwidth for updates, because she's definitely not going to manually run windows update regularly
|
|
#
?
Feb 22, 2024 23:53
|
|
|
not even just the first login i ran windows update on my rog ally last night and when i rebooted it started trying to get me to do one drive and ms cloud poo poo
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 00:47
|
|
|
my mother in law is just totally snowed by all the various technical poo poo she's having to cope with, the contractor installed a loving Ring doorbell and a smart thermostat and she has all new appliances etc. etc. and then here I am trying to patiently explain how there isn't just a windows login any more, she has a PIN (which isn't just a number) and then also a microsoft account, which she already has and which is linked to her sbcglobal.net email address, and so she can log in with one or the other depending ah god gently caress ok it also wants you to sign up for one drive, let's maybe not do that, skip, watch it spin for a while, oh the screen went dark so let's log in again, let it spin some more, oh yeah let's skip this next thing, and the next, and we're logged out again she'd be a great candidate for "just use a mac" except she's never touched a mac in her life and it'd just be that much more confusing and also I have no idea how to set up or maintain one for her
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 00:54
|
|
|
Zamujasa posted:sms messages costing 25 cents each to send and receive   Leperflesh posted:she'd be a great candidate for "just use a mac" except she's never touched a mac in her life and it'd just be that much more confusing and also I have no idea how to set up or maintain one for her buy one for yourself, see how it all works, then give it to her
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 02:37
|
|
|
I remember a buddy of mine got some sort of motorola feature phone back in the pre-smartphone era and it had threaded text messaging. that was MIND BLOWING I didn’t text a ton, but every single message you received on my phone was an entire new message, there were no conversation threads. phones sucked back in the day
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 03:10
|
|
|
macs are pretty brainless to run, make sure its logged into icloud, install browser of choice. set up mail dot app. time machine if you're feeling froggy. done. theyre even nicer if you have an ~~~ apple ecosystem ~~~ in the house, but it's not necessary.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 03:12
|
|
|
suddenly remembered my first linux phone motorola a780
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 03:16
|
|
|
a truly converged device offering the speed of EDGE technology coupled with the open, flexible environment of Java and Linux to deliver the ultimate handset for both work and play
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 03:19
|
|
|
macos is extremely easy to use. there is going to be like 1-2 weeks of some adjustment and then it just stops being confusing any even my extremely tech-challenged grandmother had it figured outBeve Stuscemi posted:I remember a buddy of mine got some sort of motorola feature phone back in the pre-smartphone era and it had threaded text messaging. that was MIND BLOWING when i got my first blackberry and it did that i saw the light and never went back.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 03:21
|
|
|
Beve Stuscemi posted:I remember a buddy of mine got some sort of motorola feature phone back in the pre-smartphone era and it had threaded text messaging. that was MIND BLOWING oh yeah, on most phones the interface for texting was more like email than chat. for a while one of the hot features of the Treo was it had a threaded text app. that plus the qwerty keyboard made for a pretty slick combo! i had a treo 650  and no texting plan  in hindsight considering how i actually used my treo i probably would have been better off with a Zire and whatever was a half-decent but not too expensive flip phone back then.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 04:49
|
|
|
Leperflesh posted:she'd be a great candidate for "just use a mac" except she's never touched a mac in her life and it'd just be that much more confusing and also I have no idea how to set up or maintain one for her I'd even say an iPad if she already has an iPhone depending on whether or not she needs to do work on it. my grandma grew up with a party line and had zero problems emailing/facebooking/scrabbling after a week or two
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 09:44
|
|
|
Powerful Two-Hander posted:correct. this is how I post so fast lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 10:49
|
|
|
my dad is an enormous narcissist idiot who thinks he is a genius and he can use a mac so if your mom is at all sane i think she’ll be fine
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 11:45
|
|
|
theflyingexecutive posted:I'd even say an iPad if she already has an iPhone depending on whether or not she needs to do work on it. my grandma grew up with a party line and had zero problems emailing/facebooking/scrabbling after a week or two she bought an ipad ten years ago and never took it out of the packaging, we just recycled it the woman absolutely freezes in the face of an unfamiliar UI, you guys are undoubtedly right if we could get her over that hump but let me put it this way it's taken us like eight years and probably a dozen demonstrations to get her to remember how to see the voicemail messages on her phone and be able to send a text message she pays all her bills monthly, by phone she is real mad at her condo association's new policy that they don't staff the office just to receive checks, because she doesn't want them to have her email address so she can sign up to pay online, and she also can't pay by phone, so now she's mailing a check in advance to whatever address they're using even though that costs an extra fee she basically gets windows because she learned it 20 years ago, she can start a browser and get her email and open a word document and type in it and that's 100% of her computer needs so we picked up an inexpensive but reasonable lenovo at costco for like $600 and so that's what she's gonna have e. when y'all are 78 you get to be just as obstinate as she is, she's earned it lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:12
|
|
|
just put a black shell on a macbook and tell her it's windows 12, it's what they're going to these days, it's better
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:22
|
|
|
Leperflesh posted:e. when y'all are 78 you get to be just as obstinate as she is, she's earned it lol correct and right.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:25
|
|
|
Leperflesh posted:e. when y'all are 78 you get to be just as obstinate as she is, she's earned it lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:38
|
|
|
Leperflesh posted:e. when y'all are 78 you get to be just as obstinate as she is, she's earned it lol hell why wait
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:42
|
|
|
that explains why rotor's been cranky for the past ten
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:42
|
|
|
post hole digger posted:hell why wait have you earned it?
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:42
|
|
|
because if you haven't earned it, it's stolen stolen obstination
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:43
|
|
|
as someone who regularly deals with older people with a passion for obstination, idk if I can get on board lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 20:54
|
|
|
i hope when i am 78 i am a big ol linux greybeard but one of the pleasant, non rapey ones
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2024 22:36
|
|
|
how do you feel about foot crumbs vis-a-vis your daily intake thereof
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 03:17
|
|
|
i hope by the time I’m 78 I’m living in the woods with 3 dogs and without the internet
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 09:25
|
|
|
Hillary Clinton never used a computer in her life, so she couldn’t understand the secure e-mail system that the State Department used. the private email server that republicans are all  about was set up so she could send and receive e-mail on the Blackberry device that she was familiar with.
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 14:46
|
|
|
I just remembered that techbro who discovered that you can buy all the ingredients to make a sandwich at the supermarket, instead of going to a sandwich shop
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 16:21
|
|
|
Silver Alicorn posted:I just remembered that techbro who discovered that you can buy all the ingredients to make a sandwich at the supermarket, instead of going to a sandwich shop i can’t believe this stuff isn’t patented. you can just buy salami????
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 16:37
|
|
|
Silver Alicorn posted:I just remembered that techbro who discovered that you can buy all the ingredients to make a sandwich at the supermarket, instead of going to a sandwich shop a couple of years ago, my cousin's company had a summer intern who didn't know how coffee was made. they just assumed that it came out of the coffee pipe at starbucks or something like that
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 16:49
|
|
|
in fairness it does feel like the coffee industry really doesn't want you knowing that stuff sometimes, the beans section at my local supermarket is basically invisible unless you're looking for it between the instant stuff and pods for various machines
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 17:01
|
|
|
*being radicalized after walking into a local coffee shop that sells the means of production (pour-over filters)*
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 17:29
|
|
|
it's a skewed normal distribution, at one end people that think it's a coffee pipe and at the other end coffee wankers that won't shut up about how they hand grind thos beans
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 17:32
|
|
|
i grind the beans for my aeropress every morning it helps maximize bean smell which is the main way i know when daytime starts.
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 18:02
|
|
|
aldi used to do an absolutely amazing instant coffee - great smell that filled a room and a deep rich taste. and then it disappeared and was replaced with jars of knockoff nescafe 
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 18:05
|
|
|
EIDE Van Hagar posted:maximize bean smell saying this in the crysis suit voice
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 18:39
|
|
|
Sweevo posted:aldi used to do an absolutely amazing instant coffee - great smell that filled a room and a deep rich taste. and then it disappeared and was replaced with jars of knockoff nescafe more like nescrappe
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 20:05
|
|
|
Sweevo posted:great smell that filled a room and a deep rich taste. same but my farts
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 21:21
|
|
|
my wife came to see me in my home office to ask me something and as usual dropped horrendous farts and i had to put the fan on for two hours to clear the air i alway yell at her to just drop them in the hallway or whatever. she is a domestic terrorist
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 23:43
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 07:56 |
|
|
haha the ole battle axe am i rite
|
|
#
?
Feb 24, 2024 23:56
|
|