It's like the last 6 years of tech development in IT and things, I feel like I missed a boat somewhere and now the tech world is using software and lingo that my brain has no knowledge of. Whatever happened to the good old ways!?
@pdw57 okay it seems you are half my age so I am going to tell you clearly instead of just blocking you: this is a very annoying kind of reply to receive from a stranger, especially in light of the fact that every single time for 15 years that I have mentioned on social media that I am using Windows, Linux or OSX, a total stranger tells me that clearly the problem is I should be using Windows, Linux or OSX instead
@0xabad1dea I dunno ...i still prefer that over the new chic of "whoopsy floops, something bad happened. We won't tell you what or why, because you're a dumb user who wouldn't understand anyway, and we also don't want our customer support reps to have a clue. Teehee! 😃😃😃" :P
Two of my favorite exchanges in the first year or so of working at my current employer:
“It’s telling me that it’s an illegal operation to instantiate an abstract bean.”
“I need to get the beanstalk key.”
Even better: these conversations were months apart and neither of them had anything to do with each other. One involved Java, the other involved Amazon Web Services configuration.
— “I am going to sell this macbook, I should do that major OS update I’d been dodging”
— laptop begins 14GB download
— I close the lid, forgetting to actually apply the update
— one month later I open the lid after finding a buyer. it is extremely not amused
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