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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
frodothedodo
psychotic-gerard

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moment of silence for everyone who relied on AI chat bots for research when it’s going around saying shit like this.

[image description: search that reads “country in africa that starts with K”. the featured snipped is from www.emergentmind.com and reads “While there are 54 recognized countries in Africa, none of them begin with the letter "K". The closest is Kenya, which starts with a "K" sound, but is actually spelled with a "K" sound. It's always interesting to learn new trivia facts like this.” /end ID]

fluffy-critter

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themysticallovecabbage

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extinctpussy
clientsfromhell

Me: “How can I help you today, ma'am?”

Client: “Is e-mail internet”?

Me: “I beg your pardon?”

Client: “Is e-mail on the internet? I have no internet, can I still read my e-mail?”

Me: “Well yes, you must be able to get online to view your e-mail.”

Client: “Oh, dear. I can’t see my e-mail.”

Me: “Well, let’s see. Can you open up Internet Explorer for me and tell me what you see?”

Client: “Open what?”

Me: “Your browser, can you open up your browser?”

Client: “My…my…?”

Me: “What you click on when you want to browse the internet?”

Client: “I don’t use anything, I just turn my computer on, and it’s there.”

Me: “Okay. Do you see the little blue ‘e’ icon on your desktop?”

Client: “You mean I have to start writing letters again?”

Me: “I’m…what, I’m sorry?”

Client: “I don’t have any pens at my desk. I just want my e-mail again.”

Me: “No, ma'am, your desktop, on your computer screen. Can you click on the little blue ‘e’ on your computer screen for me?”

Client: “Oh, this is too much work. I’m too upset. Just send me my e-mail. Can’t you send me my e-mail?”

Me: “We…okay, ma'am. Can you tell me what color the lights are on your router right now?”

Client: “My what?”

Me: “The little box with green or possibly a couple of red lights on it right now - it’s most likely near your computer?”

Client: “Lights and boxes, boxes and lights, just get my e-mail for me.


Me: “My test is showing that you should be able to get online right now. Can you tell me what you’re seeing on your computer screen?”

Client: “It’s been the same thing for the last two hours.”

Me: “An error message?”

Client: “No, just stars. It’s black and moving stars.”

Me: “…Do you see your mouse next to your keyboard?”

Client: “Yes.”

Me: “Move it for me.”

Client: “Move it?”

Me: “Yes. Move it.”

Client: “My e-mail!”

mer-squared

This post gave me a fucking ulcer.

libations-of-blood-and-wine

You meet people like this at the library. People who have been coming in every day for YEARS to use the computers and monopolize your time with conversations like this, that seem to go out of their way to avoid listening to anything you try to teach them because they’d rather you just do it for them.

So one day, this tiny, frail little woman comes to the desk with a huge folder of papers under her arm. She says “I need to use one of the computers,” and I’m like “alright, I’ll set you up with a guest account.”

And then she says “I’ll also need you to show me how to use a computer. I’m 97 years old and I’ve never even touched one before, but I need to file my health information and they told me I needed to do it using this,” and she holds out a little scrap of paper with a url scrawled on it in a shaky hand.

And I’m just mentally like ‘oh no,’ but I say of course I can help her. So I sit her down and sign her in, and she stops me to ask basically what the mouse is, and I explain it, but I’m just thinking that this is going to take a million years. But I start doing a quick and dirty run down of the parts of the computer, the programs, the desktop, what a url is and what the Internet is, what a search engine is, what websites are, and so on.

She doesn’t interrupt or ask any questions or anything, and then I’m like ‘okay let’s go to this url’ and it’s an interactive, multi-page form that she needs to put all that info in her folder into and submit, and I’m just terrified as I’m explaining it that I’m going to spend all day with this woman.

But she’s just like “alright. I think I’ve got it.” And she must have had a secretary job back in the typewriter days, because she just *whips* through the first page of the form and submits and goes on to the next, and tells me she’ll find me if she needs me.

She came over once to tell me she needed an email address and wanted to know how to set one up - I told her about her options and she picked Gmail and went back to the computer and set it up all by herself, and got her information all filed properly in about an hour and a half – and she’d NEVER used a computer before in her LIFE.

When she was done, she came over to ask me how to turn it off and I showed her and she thanked me for being so patient, and I told her quite honestly that I’d NEVER seen a novice adult pick up using a computer so fast.

And she said “oh, but it’s so simple! And so useful! My grandkids made it sound so difficult, but I’m going to pick up my own computer tomorrow!”

And I think she must have, because I never saw her in the library again.

Anyway I hope I’m that quick when I’m 97.

surprisebitch

^ thank you for sharing this very positive experience because the experience from OP really gave me a headache. it was nice to end on a positive note.. gives hope

marlinspirkhall

My grandma adores technology, and she used to work as a typist/secretary, too!

We were also climbing up really high a few years ago, and as soon as we got to the top of the tower, she stopped, surveyed our surroundings, and declared “this reminds me of a level in Assassin’s Creed” and then we walked all the way back down again.

abellark
ladyofspoons

just remembered that time i carved a viking runestone transcribing the Fitness Gram Pacer Test…

ladyofspoons

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@theshitpostcalligrapher is this anything?

theshitpostcalligrapher

oh i love this

chelebelle-topaz

please elaborate?

ladyofspoons

ok so, in my senior year of high school, i was taking an advanced construction technology class, but because of covid, it was extremely limited, to the point of one of the assignments being “do something that involves one of these trades/skills” and on that list was stone working. i had recently acquired a dremel, and gotten a little practice engraving letters, and figured that i could finally make a runestone or a monolith type thing. the reason i chose do specifically make it about the Fitness Gram Pacer Test was because at the time i was watching a lot of Overly Sarcastic Productions videos, and one of them (the quetzalcoatl one i think) mentioned how nobody would carve a monolith describing the Fitness Gram Pacer Test. i took this as a challenge, and also thought it would be very funny thing to do, and a great use of covid time. so about a week later, i had learnt elder fuþark, acquired a 26x26x2” slab of sandstone (approx 52 lbs.), freehanded a design based on a few different real world runestones, and carved out all the runes to describe the trial of Pæsjir, ringing serpent of endurance, a giant snake that serpentines across a 20m field in pursuit of the test taker, ringing a bell each time it turns around, and progressively increasing in speed until the participant either escapes, or is swallowed, sending the beast into a state of lethargy until another sacrifice must be provided. and then i spent the next week and a half painting it. it currently leans against the back of my parents’ house to get free weathering, and also because my parents don’t want it inside.

ladyofspoons

also have been kicking around the idea of maybe doing custom carvings…

claudysummer
darth-memes

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claudysummer

The Disaster Legacy is a Real thing. They have:

  1. An almost milenary frog that held the equivalent to the Vatican throne for centuries
  2. The only person to rival Padmé's fashion level, who also was the best duelist to ever be born, plus a revolutionary politician. Oh, and he turned to the Dark Side
  3. A stoner who said "The Jedi way is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules"
  4. The Sassy-est Bitch
  5. Anakin
  6. A child soldier who flipped the bird to the Order
  7. Someone who can't even use the Force
extinctpussy
redead-red

Elijah Wood, Daniel Radcliffe, and Robert Pattison all have this like... this vibe. This energy.

I'm not quite sure what it is...but it's something.

redead-red

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@kdinjenzen you are so right

ellakas

@elliteracy is also so right
#it’s playing a genre-defining role in a fantasy series as a youth#and then spending the rest of their careers specifically and selectively playing the weirdest little men they can find