#honestly flunking out of super theoretical computer math was a blessing in disguise

[laisai]

My mom got a refurbished laptop recently and I was the one who had to set it up

Upon opening, it became abundantly clear why the laptop was returned. It was fine, only the set up REQUIRED an internet connection and yet.... it did not detect the wifi card. Could not connect. Thus the laptop could not be set up at all

I had to go and do shit in the command line to let me have the OPTION to not have internet while setting up and like -- why the fuck do I need internet to set up the fucking laptop, unless you're trying to harvest data EVEN DURING SETUP.

Once that was done though, the computer detected the wireless card and all was good.

I figured 90% of people would've been stumped by that set up process alone and then maybe another 5% would've found the solution online but were too scared to try it.

I *hate* how tech has gotten to this point.

Me: oh yeah, if you think school photography is hard now, try imagining doing this with film.

The new girl: what’s film?

Me: … film. Like… film that goes in a film camera.

New girl: what’s that mean?

Me: … before cameras were digital.

New girl: how did you do it before digital?

Me:… with film? I haven’t had enough coffee for this conversation