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06-12-2022, 10:27 PM | #11191 (permalink) |
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1. If your food is late/wrong in a restaurant, do you make a fuss, and is your decision affected by who you’re with, if anyone?
I don’t make a fuss. In fact, one friend refers to me as “a waiter’s best friend” because I’m helpful to wait staff and (in her opinion) do everything but serve the food myself. My attitude is unaffected by whom I'm with. 2.What was your first ever modem? 56K dialup – but can’t recall the brand or anything else about it. I’m embarrassingly low-tech. 3. You find a credit card on the street. Nobody is around. What do you do? Call the bank/sponsor and ask them to notify the owner and advise on next steps. 4. What’s the most precious thing you ever lost, whether that be in terms of actual monetary value, sentimental value or the amount of work put into it, or its uniqueness? “Duckie”, a stuffed toy duck doll with a rubber face that my father gave me for Easter when I was two. It was accidently thrown out by my ex-spouse during a move. 5. How often do you virus check your computer? Rarely, unless there’s a discernible problem. Otherwise I rely on the computer to check itself (and how it does that, I really don’t know! Again, I’m very low-tech.) 6. Would you rather have central heating, a gas fire, an electric fire or a real coal fire? In my dreams, I’d have wood burning fireplaces in multiple rooms. In reality, central. |
06-13-2022, 07:43 AM | #11192 (permalink) |
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It's really not much of a hassle these days. Connecting to printers can be annoying, and of course you won't be able to use some software (e.g., Adobe), but by and large the more mainstream (by which I really mean Ubuntu-based, I guess) distributions "just work".
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06-13-2022, 08:15 AM | #11193 (permalink) | |
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But still, as you mentioned, Linux is not much of a hassle these days, but some basic sysadmin knowledge really helps. Things tend to just "work" nowadays, but when they don't, figuring out why is not always simple if you're not familiar with Linux and don't know how to use a command line efficiently. For anyone who is interested in possibly using Linux as a primary driver for their computer, I recommend people get virtual box on your Windows/Mac - grab a Linux ISO (CentOS is my bread and butter as I'm more invested in the RedHat derivations), install a virtual machine with it, and use it and see how it functions. There's also always the possibility of dual-installs/dual-boots so that you can use Windows or Linux on the same machine. |
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06-13-2022, 08:19 AM | #11194 (permalink) |
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Why not both
https://itsfoss.com/guide-install-li...-boot-windows/ I did that once a while back for reasons that escape me right now. I think it was just to see how it worked. Like a guy from the blue Man group. Edit: ninja'ed
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06-14-2022, 04:12 PM | #11198 (permalink) | |
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06-14-2022, 06:18 PM | #11199 (permalink) |
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1. If your food is late/wrong in a restaurant, do you make a fuss, and is your decision affected by who you’re with, if anyone?
I'll do what most Canadians would do in this situation. If, say, I ordered something with no cheese, and they put cheese on it, I'd scrape whatever cheese I could from the plate, then eat the rest. I probably wouldn't complain about it, except to my wife. 2.What was your first ever modem? It was a 14.4kbps dial up modem. It probably was from US robotics. 3. You find a credit card on the street. Nobody is around. What do you do? I'd cut it up and throw it away. 4. What’s the most precious thing you ever lost, whether that be in terms of actual monetary value, sentimental value or the amount of work put into it, or its uniqueness? my grand parents 5. How often do you virus check your computer? My computer runs its own scans every day. 6. Would you rather have central heating, a gas fire, an electric fire or a real coal fire? Central heating is best here. Coal is, for lack of a better term, a four letter word here. |
06-18-2022, 06:18 AM | #11200 (permalink) |
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1. Who’s your favourite Muppet?
2. What was your first home like (that you can remember)? 3. What, currently, is your main or preferred mode of experiencing music? 4. What was the last gig you attended? 5. Would you rather take a trip on an old sailing ship, a steam train, or neither? 6. How organised are you, in general?
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