• @[email protected]
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    583 days ago

    As long as you “put the internet on the desktop”, most boomers won’t know the difference. I got my dad a new laptop and he asked me to “install Google maps on it”. I put firefox on his desktop and changed the icon to a Microsoft Edge icon and that was easier to do than try to explain what a browser is and that he should use a different one.

    • Nikola Tesla's Pigeon
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      3 days ago

      My dad once had trouble with Internet explorer crashing a computer in an auto shop he was working in.

      I installed chrome which worked much better but he would not stop trying to open the Internet explorer icon.

      Changed the chrome icon to IE icon. Problem solved. Lol

    • LongLive
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      I am unable to source the quote.

      “Do you want to be correct, or do you want results?”.