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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (8 children)

This is helping my mother:

  • fix issue * "I'll help you avoiding this issue again. It's simple but you have to pay attention"

"Yeah, yeah..."

start explaining using a ver simple analogy in a piece of paper

starts rolling eyes and looking away

"You're ignoring me..."

"I'm not ignoring you! I don't need to look at you all the time"

"What did I just said?"

"I don't know! I don't understand any of this stuff!"

"Yeah, that's why I was explaining. I'm done"

"YOU NEVER HELP ME!"

I know, I know. Some explanations are simple but can be overwhelming to others. But she refuses to even try. She's far from computer illiterate. I set a jellyfin server and she uses it everyday. Every time she has a hard time with it she expects me to drop everything and just do it for her. Everytime I go I don't do anything, I just go there and while she shows all I do is repeat these two sentences: "What does it say on the screen and what are the options?" and "What do you think you should select?". She eventually figures it out as I force her to actually read it.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

, I just go there and while she shows all I do is repeat these two sentences: “What does it say on the screen and what are the options?” and “What do you think you should select?”. She eventually figures it out as I force her to actually read it.

My mother can be the same way. I don't know why. I eventually told her I charge very reasonable $300/hour rates for computer support and she stopped asking for help.

My dad on the other hand... More than a decade ago I got tired of fixing his computer problems so I set him up with ubuntu. He's into it. He manages his own desktop now and never asks for help. I have no idea if he's done weird things on the machine, but he seems happy. He even got a printer working.

[–] javiwhite@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

Getting CUPs to work properly is a right of passage for any Linux enthusiast. You win the cool dad competition. 

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