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members of sa are getting old, what are some hot tips for senior computing? carpal tunnel. diabetes induced vision loss. memory impairment. post 'em if u got em lol
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:07 |
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having trouble seeing the screen? get a big fancy 27" widescreen monitor and set the resolution to 800x600!
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:23 |
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imagine goatseing that woman
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:24 |
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just get a webtv
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:35 |
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carpal tunnel and eyestrain also depression
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:47 |
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new games are scary so make sure your dosbox.conf file is tight it's like autoexec.bat but if you bugger it up you can fix it without waiting 2 minutes for a reboot
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:48 |
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dolores and i are streaming gone with the wind later
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 18:56 |
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Dongslayer. posted:dolores and i are streaming gone with the wind later if she says "doesn't look like anything to me" immediately run
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 19:04 |
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my computer is so old that it`s just a terminal. the mainframe was dismantled decades ago. i have nothigng. m typing this on grandsons computer and crying
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 19:18 |
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flakeloaf posted:new games are scary so make sure your dosbox.conf file is tight indeed i can only enjoy stuff from the late 80s/early 90s. good tip
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 22:22 |
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I'm using a Commodore 64 as no one can put malware on it
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 23:00 |
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You Am I posted:I'm using a Commodore 64 as no one can put malware on it
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 23:33 |
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paging rotor to the thread
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 00:33 |
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You Am I posted:I'm using a Commodore 64 as no one can put malware on it i remember like ten years ago there was some drama on the Orycon mailing list where someone was pisspants about a proposal to start sending the convention newsletter as PDF instead of spending money to print it out on paper because it wasn't compatible with their commodore 64. like no poo poo this guy was still stubbornly clinging onto his C64 as his daily driver for email. it was amazing.
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 00:52 |
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if i remember right his compromise solution was "send me a raw PostScript file that i can decode and print out with [some ancient piece of software]"
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 00:54 |
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when i first started at my current job the olds were so computer illiterate that one person would print out a regularly issued document from a pdf and then hand the hard copy to another person to scan.
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 00:56 |
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i saved a coworker today from posting someone's name as their linkedin status instead of searching for the name
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 01:04 |
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Bloody posted:i saved a coworker today from posting someone's name as their linkedin status instead of searching for the name should have let them fail horribly, imo
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 01:11 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 01:37 |
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Bloody posted:i saved a coworker today from posting someone's name as their linkedin status instead of searching for the name ed balls day is in april
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 01:42 |
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Get a grandkid to explain bitcoin and install Internet Explorer because my Dell only came with Edge
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 01:45 |
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Captain Foo posted:should have let them fail horribly, imo nah i like em
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:04 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i remember like ten years ago there was some drama on the Orycon mailing list where someone was pisspants about a proposal to start sending the convention newsletter as PDF instead of spending money to print it out on paper because it wasn't compatible with their commodore 64. like no poo poo this guy was still stubbornly clinging onto his C64 as his daily driver for email. it was amazing. same but in 10+ years with all my stebe (pbuh) era phone and macbook
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:12 |
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here's my hot tip to prevent carpal tunnel when mousing don't use one of these use one of these instead and pair it with one of these
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:42 |
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akadajet posted:here's my hot tip to prevent carpal tunnel when mousing i need a thing that elevates the back of my keyboard so that my wrists aren’t all bent back on themselves. got anything like that in your ol’ bag of tricks, op?
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:45 |
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President Beep posted:i need a thing that elevates the back of my keyboard so that my wrists arent all bent back on themselves. got anything like that in your ol bag of tricks, op? I use a wrist rest to raise my wrists up https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-WaveRest-Wrist-Keyboards-F8E263-BLK/dp/B00004Z5RA/ I go through like 2 of these a year though, because the foam will start to collapse after awhile. But they are cheap.
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:48 |
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President Beep posted:i need a thing that elevates the back of my keyboard so that my wrists aren’t all bent back on themselves. got anything like that in your ol’ bag of tricks, op? kabam
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:49 |
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Or just lay in bed and put your laptop/keyboard on your ever-growing gut
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:50 |
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akadajet posted:I use a wrist rest to raise my wrists up i like this. gonna try one, i think. thank you. but this, though. what the gently caress is this?! some kind of pervert sex chair???
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:51 |
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President Beep posted:i like this. gonna try one, i think. thank you. No- that is a perfectly normal keyboard for normal people. If it was AZERTY it would be a pervert sex chair
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:57 |
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noted.
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 02:58 |
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the microsoft ergonomic keyboards come with a little platform thing that cants the board forward. it's been helpful for my feeble old wrists
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 03:27 |
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Roosevelt posted:the microsoft ergonomic keyboards come with a little platform thing that cants the board forward. it's been helpful for my feeble old wrists just checked those out on amazon. very nice. i bet my boss would buy one for me.
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 03:29 |
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i like how this thread has gone serious. mistakes into miracles and all that...
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 03:30 |
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Dongslayer. posted:dolores and i are streaming gone with the wind later subs or dubs
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 03:35 |
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talked to a kid who said business school is hard because they use excel a lot sometimes kids cant help us old timers
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 05:24 |
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lmao every time
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 05:28 |
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Shaggar posted:lmao every time same
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# ? Jan 30, 2018 14:57 |
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Shaggar posted:lmao every time that isn't even the worst part. the mouse is physically painful to use more than an hour at a time because of it's dumb rear end low profile design.
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