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I think you're gunna have a hard time getting things out of that bottom chest
The next post explains that agriculture is so important, it should be controlled by the government, with quotas, and rations...
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"Gentlemen, I put my pants on like you: one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on I make gold records."
"It looks like the second cutting board has grown legs. Any ideas?"
The first sentence uses a sarcastic metaphor that indicates the correct placement is known but the item is not to be found there
The second sentence expresses an interest in knowing what others can tell the speaker about this situation - maybe not quite discontent, but definitely interest in it being located
Tech people presume that normal people think about how technology works
They don't even try to conceptualise how something on their phone gets there from the internet or 'the cloud' - when things stop working they don't think about the fact that their an app on their phone is using a network connection to a router, which distributes an internet service that connects them to a server, that is running a program, on which they have an authenticated account...
They wouldn't even know where to begin with troubleshooting, it's just 'broken' and they get frustrated
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance begins with a discussion on this very theme, before it gets weird (weird and good)
Just change your number. You wrote this for yourself, and we've read it, heard it, and believe it. Nothing you do will change them, so just change your number
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ineffable
joined 10 months ago
I used to provide tech support for the family, and tried to move them to Linux to make them easier to support (similar simple use cases)
Thry weren't interested so now requests for help get a genuine "Sorry, I don't use Windows so I can't help"