GaMEChld

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GaMEChld,

You make it sound like all older people knew. I work in IT and most users, regardless of age, do not know anything about computers. They don’t know how to navigate file systems, they don’t know where they saved anything, they don’t even know what the recycle bin is sometimes.

I once had a user plug a power strip into itself and then didn’t understand why there was no power.

Hell, they don’t even know how to read. I lost track of how many times I had this conversation:

“There’s an error message on my screen.”

“What does it say?”

“I don’t know.”

GaMEChld,

I literally just had a conversation with an IT friend who knows more networking than me (I’m more of a generalist), and he basically told me that Wifi is basically impossible to make as bulletproof as wired. I got so fed up with wifi periodically just crapping out.

I’m like, "so… It’s like printers all over again? Nobody can make one that just is bulletproof? "

He’s like… “Well, nothings as bad as printers, let’s not go crazy here. But yeah, you can’t make wireless as reliable as wired.”

GaMEChld,

However, final users in a corporate environment should be taught that if they get a message with a lot of information, and they don’t understand that information, it’s not for them,

THIS! THIS SO MUCH! And that’s why I took over training all new employees. I teach them how to think. And every time I’ve fixed a problem, I explain to users what happened. As a result, my overall number of tickets has decreased and my users are now better equipped to solve their own issues.

GaMEChld,

I told her to do it again, but not dismiss the pop-up so quickly so I could see what it said.

I shit you not, I’ve had a user do worse.

I’ve done the same exact scenario as you with one difference. I told her the same thing you did. And then. She closed the message again. While I was pointing at it, and asking her to read it out loud.

I.

Pointed. At the screen. And said read this out loud.

She moved her mouse to my finger.

And closed the message.

I.

Can’t.

GaMEChld,

Have you played with AI tools yet?

GaMEChld,

But can you see how it COULD be useful? How you can be creative with your problem solving? You can use it to spitball ideas to yourself.

GaMEChld,

Do fledgling communities typically START diversified? I would imagine it always starts this way. You invent the thing. You send it to your like minded friends, they send it to their like minded friends, etc. I feel like diversity inevitably requires time and numbers.

GaMEChld,

Because people don’t explain it with good analogies like that. That’s the first I heard it put that way, and I found it helpful.

GaMEChld,

People place different values on time, money, energy, etc. Just because you find it too expensive for the effort, doesn’t mean someone who has more money and less energy would make the same judgement.

GaMEChld,

That kinda talk will get me shot!

GaMEChld,

The lack of self awareness is amazing. Yep, fuck Microsoft! How dare they make a product that the gaming community chose to support instead of buying competing products! Shame on THEM for making the thing YOU voluntarily paid for!

We did this to ourselves. Literally.

It Will Be an Election Unlike Any We’ve Lived Through. Are the Democrats Prepared? (newrepublic.com)

The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves...

GaMEChld,

How common are faithless electors?

GaMEChld, (edited )

My question is a statistical inquiry. Your question is a bit more complex, I’m not even sure what that data would look like.

I was able to find this at least.

GaMEChld,

The real problem is no one votes. It’s the bare minimum level of effort. It’s the participation trophy. They can do all that because we put them there with embarrassingly bad voter turnout. We spend more time complaining than actually voting.

All of those problems are the symptoms of an unrepresentative government, and a government tends to represent the people who vote for them. If no one votes, they’ll listen to the highest bidder.

GaMEChld,

Let’s not bemoan specificity. If anything, we need accurate, fine details more than ever.

All the guy said what he disagreed with the portion of the title which stated that the special was “filled” with specific jokes. That particular claim IS indeed a percentage issue.

If you are taking the point further and saying that percentages shouldn’t matter, even 1% is too much, that’s a SEPARATE claim. It doesn’t address the original claim.

GaMEChld,

Perhaps you’re just seeing what you want to see. I don’t do mind games. Words mean what their definitions are. Anything else is opinion, not fact. Cite me what words exactly you are referring to that would be objectively defined as an “apology.”

GaMEChld,

I’m lost, did they repeal HIPAA? Can I freely distribute PHI now?

GaMEChld,

Credit cards are fine for people who can control their spending. I never pay interest, so I get my rewards for free and am building my credit. If you cannot control your spending habits, you might consider a card with a low limit.

GaMEChld,

Yes, you definitely need to be vigilant these days about the fees. A lot of places are passing the costs to customers or offering lower prices for cash and debit.

People who can don't get mad and just go with the flow, how do you do it?

Here recently it seems like everything just gets under my skin so quickly and easily. It’s not that I get mad and take it out on others, it’s just the fact that I’m constantly annoyed and stressed. Something as simple as the dogs tracking some mud through the house will just ruin my mood. I know some people who would just...

GaMEChld,

I played Overwatch until my mind realigned. Not joking. I was frustrated that running into irrational people in that game would in turn make me irrational. I figured, the opposite should be true too. Rationality should be able to calm and blunt irrationality. And once I realized that, it kind of became an academic exercise to me. I was nice and friendly on purpose and the quality of all my matches went through the roof. Even games that were loses were agreed to be excellent matches by both teams. Which sounds like ridiculous fiction, but it’s the truth.

GaMEChld,

Even if it doesn’t, at minimum you will have more fun and have friendlier interactions. Ultimately, we have to remember we are voluntarily playing these games for our own enjoyment. If they make us miserable, we need to change the way we interface with the game or just stop playing them.

GaMEChld,

How might entropy be meaningfully reversed?

GaMEChld,

No they don’t. There is an ever increasing amount of gold diggers, and not a lot of gold havers to go around. So a few gold diggers are happy, and many are endlessly searching and wondering why they aren’t getting a proposal or commitment.

GaMEChld,

I’m about to harvest my first batch of vegetables in a very old MMO.

GaMEChld,

Heheh, I figured most people would think it’s RuneScape. Actually, it is a classic server for Final Fantasy XI called Eden.

Here’s the info if anyone is interested:

edenxi.com/about

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