My 4 year old similarly struggled. I finally taught her to click the icon then hit enter which she’s stuck with

My grandmother is struggling with dimensia but still loving independently. She’s getting overwhelmed trying to sort through her mail for the last couple of months. I’ve quietly pulled out ads to toss but otherwise left it be. It’s currently all in piles which don’t appear to have any rhyme or reason to them so I might take a day and sort through into piles that actually make sense to try to help her. She gets so worried about missing something important, but ultimately it’s a mix of ads, credit card statements and mailers from charities begging for money, all of which could safely be tossed

My grandparents absolutely are. I’m just thankful my parents have DOS-era skills that keep them out of trouble so I probably won’t have to do more than hardware troubleshooting or general recommendations for them in the long term

Hit the wife, divorce the lawyer, talk to the gym?

My grandmother has always had iPhones and I’ve always been on the android side of the fence. She’s been struggling with spam texts and unfortunately I’m not seeing an obvious way to stop them. Meanwhile my pixel automagically tosses basically all spam texts usually before I even see them. Honestly the spam is becoming a problem because she’s getting so many texts from organizations begging for donations and she doesn’t actually know how much she actually has set up to donate every month or to whom

I’ve noticed the tech illiterate develope tunnel vision and only see the tiniest portion of the screen at a time. They also are incredibly suseptible to the dark patterns that phones are riddled with so when the phone helpfully tries to offer a random app that paid to be promoted with a certain search term they don’t realize they’ve been had and blindly install it

Huh that’s very interesting!

rm -rf / only deletes everything on the / partition and any currently mounted filesystems, since efi is its own partition and not mounted it wouldn’t be touched

And also don’t run commands that require you to type in “do as I say” before they run

My wife grew up on a farm and her description of how nasty cleaning out the chicken coup is is enough to put me off ever considering keeping any kind of birds

The client was, so I ran the command for them to format the full 128GB as FAT32

I have a client that does HVAC work who needed help preparing a 128GB flash drive for loading firmware onto high end thermostats. Quickly ran the command to format as FAT32 because that’s what the thermostats require (and he indicated the firmware files would exceed the 32GB limit in the GUI)

I’m guessing my kids are younger than yours, but I’ve taken the approach of simply keeping a loose eye and ear on what they’re watching to make sure they’re not on too bad of content and of course limiting how much time they can spend on brainrot content. They spend most of their TV time watching PBS kids or some ripped DVDs on my Jellyfin

The family thing can be a pain, Microsoft has a lot of half baked ideas

I concur, Microsoft forced me to create a family to setup my daughter’s Minecraft account and even then I had to configure it incorrectly to add the game because it’s age rating was too high for a 5 year old and Microsoft’s own parental approval feature doesn’t override that. (I at least could change it back to being a 5 year old’s account afterwards) I need to figure out what setting I have to enable to let her do multiplayer at some point but so far she doesn’t have anyone to play with yet

Win+Shift+arrow to kick the active window to another monitor is handy when remoting into a PC with multiple monitors.

Also, when did windows get rid of the idea of a primary display? It seems to just open software on whatever screen it feels like now…

It would probably helpfully suggest LinkedIn after you so much as type the L

/dev/nvme1?

I mean, Excel’s formulas are just scripting, so you are programming if you do any formulas.

Excel is pretty powerful if you have some data to manipulate or some math to math, but also it’s generally the worst tool for the job, but it’s at least a tool you can almost always assume will be available

under no circumsision

I appreciate that Circumcision is misspelled so you had to actually go out of your way on that one

My day was simultaneously both ruined and made far more exciting for the existence of that comment. So maybe net-0? I suppose in a roundabout way you could say you’re solving climate change!