Aggravationstation

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[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

My non-tech literate aunt has been running her Ebay business from a laptop running Fedora with unattended upgrades for 3 years now. She manages her expenses in Libreoffice calc and accesses everything else through Chrome and prints labels on an old USB HP printer. I don't think she's even noticed I switched her over from Windows 10 when her machine was getting slow.

My Dad's laptop is also on Fedora (though he mainly just uses an Android tablet these days) and I intend to install it on my Grandma's PC when Windows 10 stops being supported. So for the people who'd be happy with something like a Chromebook, which is a good chunk of older folks, it's perfect and I can easily provide support.

That being said if I had to deal with helping kids who wanted to game and use Bluetooth bits and pieces surrounded by RGB crap then yea outside of a few well supported options it could be a nightmare depending on what they've got.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The pharmacist at my local Tesco once told me I was buying paramol too often. It had been at least a year since I last bought it.

This told me that:

A. They're using facial recognition to track purchases

B. There's either not enough info provided by it or enough training on it's use

Just like me. I'm a fat bald guy with a huge beard which I always thought I was the Linux stereotype. But yea, I enjoy seeing cute socks with Neofetches in my feed.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Based on what data?

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 40 points 8 months ago (4 children)

We had an ad that actually said "piracy funds terrorism" here in the UK. Made me laugh my arse off.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I read that as a line from "Down with the Sickness."

Also, I had the same problem. Solved by good ol' 1ft.io

https://1ft.io/proxy?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwho13.com%2Fnews%2Fdisturbed-show-postponed-after-singer-comes-down-with-a-sickness%2F

Carrie's mouth is open really far

Yea now that's a pretty crazy life.

Diablo Cody stripped for a while. Not exactly shocking.

Certainly gets me going.

As much as I like electric cars this could be done with pretty much any petrol or diesel car with an inverter.

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

But not as much as the high seas me heartie...

[–] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I don't want to sound arrogant but is reading a few paragraphs then copying and pasting 3 different commands into a terminal really that difficult?

It will make life easier in the long run as having a repo added will update the software with sudo apt upgrade in the future.

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