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@Root and they will never understand tech and techies. Sad sad world.
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Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/vwbKYcBdVyk
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@Root What's 'non-techies' ?
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@-red
* "I typed the symptoms into the computer and uploaded it to google. They said I might have connection problems."
* "Google downloaded a webpage file to my email"
* "I put the UBS into the computer so my paper is on it now, right?"
* "What do you mean our website is insecure? Linda! Quick, buy a new website with hppts!"
* "Of course I trust Google. They never try to steal my money, and their motto is even 'Don't be evil!'"
* "What kind of computer am I using? That's a stupid question. Internet explorer."
* "You're always playing games! And they don't even look fun! All that text. Nobody is ever going to hire you to play text games!"
* "Duh, I closed my mac and now it's off"
* "Even my friend agrees that coding causes viruses."
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@Root Wow 😅 Got it. 😂
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@-red 😊
Oh, and thanks for making my phone vibrate off my desk the other day 😂 (not really, but close!) -
@Root Anytime. Fanboy here.
Go big or go home.
So everyone is showing their setup, I thought why not share mine.
Every time someone posts their multi monitor setup I'm looking at my setup and be like: "Will this community a...
Got my wife a new Roku stick, which we needed and she was very excited about. She asked me to set it up. I said it might take a little while. She said she didn't mind.
Setup was easy and straightforward, but of course involved pairing the actual device with its remote. Then I had to create an account on the computer, since the previous device was her sister's.
It was at this point when she got mad, like really mad, that setting up a new device had to be "so complicated." Okay, first off, this is the happy path. Absolutely nothing went wrong, couldn't ask for better. Second, I told you it might take a little while, and it hasn't even been 5 minutes. This, I even asked you to make sure you wanted to do this now. And you're not even doing it, I am. Which I don't mind, but don't get mad at me that it's not literally magic.
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