I have beenplaying around with tools and drop downs. Now all the tools etc do not show. Also my feed is inverteted. I am not net/computer lingo savvy so I need a staff person to assist. Was trying different layouts and went to far.
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Yes I use chrome. Thanks for the tip. It has returned to normal.
thread made me smile, I'm same as you when shit goes wonky and I try to ask for help in writing " when the things turn blue so I back up and then move it into the box where you usually have to enter the first part it takes me to another page and it says cancel but I press the button but it says that it's not available so I try to go back but then it asks for my password again and asks me to login with my microsoft account but I don't know what account that means."
Sometimes I find myself sitting nervously in the dark waiting for the oldman hit squad to come crashing in to take away all my tech
Totally my world too! The suede denim secret police. Come quietly to the car sir.
“Step away from the computer sir!! Just slowly back away from it. That’s it. Put your hands behind your head now. You’re going to be ok”
In some ways the simple command line was better. More robust anyway.
A simple "paste this string and hit enter" fixed most problems instantly.
Who remembers Pine SMTP, NNTP newsgroups, and the Gopher, Archie, Veronica and Jughead archives of FTP servers? The Internet before HTTP and the WWW claimed the title?
Anyone else old enough to make the claim they've read the entire World Wide Web?
A simple "paste this string and hit enter" fixed most problems instantly.
Who remembers Pine SMTP, NNTP newsgroups, and the Gopher, Archie, Veronica and Jughead archives of FTP servers? The Internet before HTTP and the WWW claimed the title?
Anyone else old enough to make the claim they've read the entire World Wide Web?
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Oh so now we're just making words up to make me (and maybe grandpa) feel even more stupid? Pretty low fella, pretty low. And it's WWE by the way, tell me you don't know anything about wrestling without telling me you don't know anything about wrestling.
Mission accomplished.
I liken it more to like how auto owners manuals used to tell you how to adjust valve lash. Now the owners manuals tell you not to drink the battery acid.
Those old guys might not know what's under the hood of modern cars as well anymore,
but they sure as hell.know.more about engines than the average guy does today.
It takes more and more specialization to keep up with any specific technology anymore.
PS. There was a time you could wade through a few thousand pages of mostly porn and make that WWW claim.
I get stuck being the “tech” guy at home and work. I keep telling them I have no fucking clue what I am doing, but I always get the job.
Truthfully I just keep pissing around until something works.
All I’m thinking is, “why don’t you just do what I do and fuck around till it works and waste 30 minutes of your time, lol”
Ok my speciality is unplugging it and plugging it back in.
Truthfully I just keep pissing around until something works.
All I’m thinking is, “why don’t you just do what I do and fuck around till it works and waste 30 minutes of your time, lol”
Ok my speciality is unplugging it and plugging it back in.
The net was only porn until google came along. You couldn’t find nothing unless you typed in the exact address.Mission accomplished.
I liken it more to like how auto owners manuals used to tell you how to adjust valve lash. Now the owners manuals tell you not to drink the battery acid.
Those old guys might not know what's under the hood of modern cars as well anymore,
but they sure as hell.know.more about engines than the average guy does today.
It takes more and more specialization to keep up with any specific technology anymore.
PS. There was a time you could wade through a few thousand pages of mostly porn and make that WWW claim.
A very long time ago, for almost all technology a wise person told me - your Smart TV, computer, android box, or whatever - clear the cache, force close all apps and restart. Don't just unplug it for 1 second. Unplug and make sure no electricity goes to it for 30 seconds or longer and plug it back in. With my line of site internet - if I have any internet issues, this is the go to and it fixes it every time. It has to be unplugged for 45 seconds, but that is not a line in the house. It is line of site internet.
If your TV or computer is smoked and dead, this won't work but there is something to taking the electricity away and the device seems to reset itself. If that doesn't work, I format to defaults as it was out of the box and rebuild.
A good practice is keeping a USB drive of all your favourite apps/programs and then you don't have to remember or go looking, just spend 10 minutes.
@Sorbate - my go to is unplugging and plugging it back in too.
I have to do this to the tv in my front room about once a week to get it to hook up to the internet. It has an error or shit processor. The thing responds so slow.
I bought it at Best buy.
Funny part I have bought the exact same make/model at costco (soon after) and there are great.
TV story - back in like 1975 a family friend "Uncle Joey" bought our TV, big ass old school TV, big ass old school man. I'm the only one home when he comes to get it. I was told to help him take it out to his truck. He tells me to unplug it, I do and I go to grab one side and he says "it's ok" and picks it up by himself, I am suitably impressed. He is struggling a bit though and kinda yells at me to open the doors to the deck. Young gondar thinks to himself something along the lines of fuck you I hope you drop it.
Uncle Joey bumps the door frame, there is a very loud BANG noise, the TV goes tumbling out onto the deck and Uncle Joey gets launched off his feet and ends up 10 feet away on the kitchen floor.
Something about capacitors, transformers and tubes and not leaving it unplugged for long enough? My Dad laughed til he cried when I told him the story.
