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Ernie Smith

LOL, this is worse than that time I accidentally added a bunch of node_modules folders to Dropbox

Bemiller, the publicist, accidentally killed one work laptop because he didn’t know how to ask for help. Every morning when he turned it on, he would be greeted by a pop-up from the storage service Dropbox, which he always accepted without reading. After a few months, the computer began to run painfully slowly. It often died without warning. Bemiller could not get any work done, and his manager ordered him a new laptop. By the time the replacement came in the mail, IT had figured out the issue – and it was completely avoidable. As it turned out, every time Bemiller accepted the pop-up, it gave Dropbox permission to back up everything on to the computer’s disk. At the same time, it gave the computer permission to backup to Dropbox. “It was constantly backing up everything on to itself,” he said. “Murdering that poor laptop is still so funny to me.”
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Spacewizard! (Ed H)

@ernie like back in the day when you could have hundreds of thousands of files in a node_modules directory? what a nightmare

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❓ucblockhead

@ernie "Kids today can't hack it" articles never get old.

They really, really never fucking do. I wish they would. Same articles, new generations.

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Steve Griffin

@ernie I'm going to make my kid learn qbasic.

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Dr. Matt Lee

@ernie Everyone under 40 to be required to install Arch Linux?

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Dr. Matt Lee

@wiredfire @ernie I've never managed it and I'm supposed to be good at Linux

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Wiredfire :BA:

@mattl @ernie I’ll be honest, I’m not of a Linux Mint kinda guy when I tinker these days. Give me something that works out of the box and damned if the drivers are freely distributed but proprietary 😅

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Ernie Smith

@wiredfire @mattl Running Pop!_OS today on my Linux machine but I have actually messed with some Arch based distros

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Dr. Matt Lee

@ernie @wiredfire I've not installed in months. Not doing as much as I was with it...

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Falselogic

@ernie Its worse than that. There is a bill in California right now that would force kids to learn cursive.

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Rairii

@ernie i had (access to) a scanner at home; but never used one in school, so i can understand being confused by a scanner

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Óli Gneisti (English)

These kids don't know how to use a non-intutive machine? Shocking.

I've helped literally hundreds of people who were baffled by photocopiers. I think I always started by checking if they had the wrong side up because that was the most common mistake.

The idea of the "digitally native" generation has always been really weird and now it seems that it is supposed the young people's fault that those expectiations were wrong.

@ernie

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Ernie Smith

@oligneisti Like I was implying, we’re not doing a good enough job of training people on technology that came before their time. Looking back, I think it was very useful to learn about computers on Apple IIs even though those were very out of date by the time I got to them. Now we only really show the current thing to them and it’s proving a problem.

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Cian O'Connor

@oligneisti @ernie

Yeah there's never been a time period where new users could understand photocopiers/scanners. They're horribly designed and unintuitive.

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