So this morning I awoke to the brother ranting what a dink I was on FB, how I destroyed all his sacred memories and how if he brought his car to a mechanic, turned down repairs and left it there over a year, any reputable mechanic would have just given “his property” back not destroyed it.
So much for differing from the norms.
I had to point out to his post that any mechanic surely would not have destroyed it, they would have long ago sold it as is or for scrap value. If they hadn’t got around to that, he’d owe a huge storage fee for waiting a year.
That was the Macbook with a smashed screen with a hole the size of a hammerhead, cracked in two motherboard and soldered on hard drive. They brought it to me around Sept 2023
Should change the thread title to F*ck Windows, but I still make pocket money from it.
30+ years and every week I see a new Windows problem I’ve never encountered before. Had an error come up trying to start LibreOffice on a fresh install - turns out Win10 installer didn’t install MSoft C++ at all. Why? Used the same 22H2 USB stick on dozens of other machines for years!
Best one yet: the guy told her her Starlink goes on and off because “the satellite” keeps moving around.
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BTW any recommendations to replace Teamviewer? Had that to help a 95 yr old on the other side of the lake and the woman mentioned in my last post and hadn’t used it for a couple years.
Incessant BS to run the free program now, so to hell with that one!
Ended up walking her (the lady that should hire herself out as a customer service trainer. 90% will quit and work at Wendys instead, if they hold out and manage her problem - hire them as a manager) through over the phone.
2 hours… she’s a personal friend so at least I can tell her to STFU and listen without her getting mad.
How to save her files to a USB stick… etc etc etc
Mac Question:
I find that Finder is far more annoying compared to File Explorer.
From my Amiga days, I used to copy, paste, etc with the GUI using two open windows, source - destination.
Then they came out with DOpus, a text application with source on one side, destination on the other and a bunch of action buttons in the middle. I think the Windows one was Commander something. It was handier, copy to, extract to, compress to, move etc. I think FTP was even built in.
Anydesk is the one I use. Don’t even need to install it. Can be run in portable mode. But the other side needs to be able to read some numbers to you and then give you permission.
Midnight Commander. I use it a lot on the command line, in Linux and on macOS.
https://midnight-commander.org
Install on Mac with brew install mc
And then you can just mc on the command line to start it.
Thanks! I always preferred that one.
Win10 and 11 are horribly slow on file handling. More time counting files and estimating size than working.
Had to remove and copy over 40+ Gigs of photos from an iPhone onto a USB stick. After all kinds of PITAs I found the fastest/easiest was to plug into my PC, open the iPhone folder then copy to the Desktop. Then cut from the Desktop to the USB.
Then had to open each date folder on the iPhone and bulk delete the files. Could not delete the folders themselves.
The guy had an older one and I found with the Lightning port on my old one, not a damn USB thing would work at all in it. Couldn’t even find a Lightning/male USB to try using a powered hub.
Today’s gripe is about large companies that can’t use technology to save their own ass.
TWO credit card outfits that mail statements mailed them during the mail strike. Both had my email on file already but because I didn’t fill out that email me only box years ago, couldn’t even think to use it of their own accord. Both self-servingly charged a little overdue penalty so I must assume affected my credit rating, One didn’t send a January statement at all and added an unpaid amount on the Feb one too.
Update computer records? Never! Today I received a huge catalogue from an office supply wholesaler. Addressed to my old desktop printing company that I merged with another and used their name in 1998. Out of business for 27 years. Good for a chuckle!
I also inquired at an Auto Parts store if they can look up via a part number in their computer yet, they said NO. This is after owning my Kei truck 15 years ago no one could look up by year, make, or model as the db was made in the USA and the truck wasn’t. The part is in the db but you can’t look it up by that one. I found out that part was used in a vehicle they did sell in America only through a Kei owner forum…
OMG back again with the same thing! She’d just had her bank send her to me before Christmas and all she did was call the number in her email and the guy ‘fixed the problem’ then she couldn’t log into any of her things.
Saved the banking passwords again for both accounts.
Both banks ask me for a written statement of what I’ve done and that it include warning people not to save their banking password before they will restore online access.
Also had me do a backup to her external, refuses to learn how to do that either. Sigh, people like that… so long as they have cash I just shake my head.
Not much excitement dealing with the same things every day:
Used her yahoo address as her yahoo recovery mail, her gmail address as her gmail recovery, and her landline as her phone. All years ago.
Got a new computer and copied all their files. Then they smashed the old ones to bits and tossed it. THEN they called the accountant to come from out of town because when you clicked on their file, there was no Simply Account program to open it.
Guy trying to bank on his iPad, his bank’s TFA was his old landline at a house that burned down.
Next one the people at the bank told him their signal wasn’t strong enough to work on his tablet. Him too - recovery # was an old landline, recovery email was on my old domain closed in 2014
Just his morning FOUR lost passwords, too complicated, shouldn’t have to do all this, robots on the phone blah blah, why don’t YOU know my password… one lady went on about her well for ages how the “iron bacteria” killed her husband and the lying doctors claim it was cirrhosis of the liver…
I’d tear my hair out but I did manage to fetch my old USB/DVD, get that damn 2011 Simply to work on Windows 11. They now have a whole 15 days to remember what account they set up 14 years ago or it will stop. I know my own old SImply2014 just glitches and burns on Win10 or 11.
DING and now the lady with the gmail/yahoo f*ck up just called as she also has a Telus mail she forgot the password for and Telus is going to send the code to her landline… aaaiiieeeyyyyahhh!
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On my home LAN windows is gone. I’m running Slackware and I maintain my wife’s Debian laptop. Will edit /etc/apt/sources.list when 13 is released this summer.