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The Lord Bude posted:My place is the bedroom right next to his. Right now his backup methodology is just the one external drive that he manually copies files to and which sits on his desk in his bedroom. This is not backup  Edit: Just buy you/your Dad one of these - https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4047831&perpage=40&pagenumber=1&noseen=1 and be done with it. eightysixed fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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eightysixed posted:This is not backup lol no. My dad doesn’t do used stuff (and neither do I). As for backup, he really just wants spare copies of important financial stuff in the event of his laptop dying or getting stolen, he’s not hugely worried about fire or anything else on the computer. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Nov 22, 2023 15:24
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Cloud backups with Backblaze? Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I really like them.
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Nov 22, 2023 15:33
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The Lord Bude posted:lol no. My dad doesn’t do used stuff (and neither do I). As for backup, he really just wants spare copies of important financial stuff in the event of his laptop dying or getting stolen, he’s not hugely worried about fire or anything else on the computer. I hope he’s careful with his beverages and doesn’t care about bitrot or file corrosion that may happen during the transfer that he won’t notice until he tries to retrieve it, or his wife gets mad and smashes it, I can go on forever.
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Last Chance posted:Cloud backups with Backblaze? Sorry if this has already been mentioned, but I really like them. he’s a strict no cloud guy.
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At this point just stay with Windows 95 or whatever he’s using and his current setup. No need to migrate. He’s creating more problems than he has.
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Nov 22, 2023 16:04
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eightysixed posted:I hope he’s careful with his beverages and doesn’t care about bitrot or file corrosion that may happen during the transfer that he won’t notice until he tries to retrieve it, or his wife gets mad and smashes it, I can go on forever. He’s also a strict ’no food or drink near the computer ever’ guy. I doubt he knows bitrot is a thing (and I’m not sure I want to spark a mad panic) and the latter is not going to happen. The plan is to set him up with either an external hard drive or an external SSD (I haven’t decided how much Santa loves him yet) and Time Machine.
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Nov 22, 2023 16:05
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eightysixed posted:At this point just stay with Windows 95 or whatever he’s using and his current setup. No need to migrate. He’s creating more problems than he has. His laptop, while probably not at immediate risk of death, is probably in its final life stages. One way or another he needs a replacement soon. The whole ‘switching to Mac’ thing is a reaction to windows 11, and cheap laptops generally (‘d say his issues are roughly 70% ‘windows is increasingly doing poo poo he hates’ and 30% ‘You wouldn’t have this problem if you’d spent more than $800 AUD on a laptop) With an added pinch of ‘I’m the tech support guy; I haven’t used windows in over a year and don’t plan to again, and I’d really prefer not to be constantly on the hook for troubleshooting that dumpster fire’ especially with my dad’s added peculiarities thrown into the mix.
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Nov 22, 2023 16:12
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he's going to lose all his financial records when whoever steals his laptop also takes the hard drive sitting next to it, and he's going to blame you for it at least get a fire safe
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Nov 22, 2023 16:21
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Subjunctive posted:he's going to lose all his financial records when whoever steals his laptop also takes the hard drive sitting next to it, and he's going to blame you for it This.
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Nov 22, 2023 16:34
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Subjunctive posted:he's going to lose all his financial records when whoever steals his laptop also takes the hard drive sitting next to it, and he's going to blame you for it I think the chances of either being stolen are pretty slim given our lifestyles, and the chances of both being stolen are fairly close to impossible. The laptop and the hard drive are only in the same building for about 8 hours a day, and he’s sleeping 3 feet from them for like 6 of those hours. Even setting aside the fact that break ins are much less common here, they especially aren’t going to happen In a house where every window is covered with steel bars, and every external doorway has 2 locked doors to go through which are typically ether solid wood or metal bars; there is always someone at home, and I don’t go to bed until dawn, which is when he gets up to leave, so there’s like maybe a 1 hour gap when both of us would be asleep at the same time. Also not a huge fire risk in a big sprawling house where every internal wall is solid brick a foot thick, and networked fire alarms in every bedroom and hallway. A safe is not something I’d be able to convince him to spend money on.
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The Lord Bude posted:A safe is not something I’d be able to convince him to spend money on. edit: you can get a fire safe from Amazon for $39.98 and it comes with the kit to bolt it into the floor of this "sprawling" large household. eightysixed fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Nov 22, 2023 16:43
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 New thread title - macOS and Mac Software: My Dad needs help! This has been going on for pages, it fits.
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eightysixed posted:Being as your Dad comes off as a paranoid autistic person, this is ridiculous. the paranoid autism is in constant competition with the penny pinching greek accountant. We are talking about a person who spent 3 years trying to buy a new car because he calculated the rate of inflation since he bought his existing car and settled on that figure as ‘what a new car should cost’ then spent 3 years futilely trying to find a car that ticked every one of his boxes before relenting and spending what a new car actually cost. edit: and I can’t imagine he’d be willing to bolt something into the floor either, if that was even possible with our floor. Even if he was, I doubt my granddad would agree to it, and it’s his house. The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Nov 22, 2023 16:52
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What car did he end up going with lol
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^^ also this This is getting out of hand. You may have missed my edit - quote:edit: you can get a fire safe from Amazon for $39.98 and it comes with the kit to bolt it into the floor of this "sprawling" large household. But he wants to go spend a grand or two on a laptop.
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I’m thoroughly entertained
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Skeezy posted:What car did he end up going with lol A subaru outback, same as the last 2. eightysixed posted:^^ also this I updated my post! He is *very begrudgingly* buying a MacBook Air, which costs more than double his original budget, after years of calling me insane for spending so much on computers, because of the shocking experience he had with a cheap windows 11 laptop he bought and then returned shortly thereafter. He’s backed into a corner, much like the car
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Last Chance posted:I’m thoroughly entertained Yeah, this is better than the "I sleep in the parking lot of my Company to save money from commuting back home to be with my family" thread in GBS.
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Last Chance posted:I’m thoroughly entertained I mean what else do you guys have to do, look at the thread title The Lord Bude fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Nov 22, 2023 16:58
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He should have kept the old Outback they stopped making them with 3.6Ls
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So he spent 3 years doing research on a new car to end up getting the same car anyways. Your dad needs an account here asap.
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Skeezy posted:So he spent 3 years doing research on a new car to end up getting the same car anyways. You missed the fact that I've already addressed this - eightysixed posted:Is OP the actual “Dad” just talking in third person for advice? I’ll buy the Dad an account if he “trusts” it.
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American McGay posted:He should have kept the old Outback they stopped making them with 3.6Ls Yeah this is why I’m holding on to my 2010 V6 RAV4 for as long as possible; the V6 makes the car a lot of fun to drive.
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Skeezy posted:So he spent 3 years doing research on a new car to end up getting the same car anyways. I mean it was 7 years old at that point, so it was a newer model. To be fair, he has some very restrictive criteria (some of them a matter of genuine necessity, for eg he has very specific cargo space requirements) and he spent a very long time trying to find a non suv that would suit his needs because he would have preferred a lower vehicle (easier to get my granddad into) before ultimately concluding that it wasn’t to be.
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Canned Sunshine posted:Yeah this is why I’m holding on to my 2010 V6 RAV4 for as long as possible; the V6 makes the car a lot of fun to drive. he doesn’t care about that, his old car was the standard 2.5L ( I think?) engine, and his new one is the turbo, and it’s by far the most powerful car he’s ever owned. Skeezy posted:So he spent 3 years doing research on a new car to end up getting the same car anyways. I’ve tried multiple times over the years. He’d probably just get banned for being a troll if his behavior on whirlpool, various car forums, and the now defunct community forum of his local soccer team are anything to go by.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=91 Automotive Insanity eightysixed fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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wow this is still going. I question the entire premise of you acting as your father's 'tech support.' a stranger supporting him won't hestitate to challenge him on the smallest of his bullshit requirements like you are. seems like you getting in the middle only means anyone helping you has to convince two people who don't really know what they want instead of just one.
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Grassy Knowles posted:wow this is still going. I mean, I know what I want, and I know what he wants (I also know what he should want, if he wasn’t so obstinate). I don’t really get a choice when it comes to acting as the tech support, I have to live with the guy. Any issues generally come down to his total unwillingness to just ‘take someone’s word for it’. He wouldn’t put any more stock in what a stranger says any more than he does in what I say. In any case he’s stopped talking about anti virus. Whether that means he’s come around to my way of thinking or he’s just going to start up again later remains to be seen. current conversations are all around whether he keeps using MS Office or makes the switch to numbers and pages, and how well his existing spreadsheets will carry over; but I’ve offered to let him test some of them on my Mac so we’ll soon see. To be clear at this point the conversation ITT is as much about venting and entertaining everyone as it is about getting advice. it’s honestly a coin flip whether he buys his Mac air in the Black Friday sales (a nearby retailer is selling it for like 20% off) or if he’s still talking about it a year from now as his ancient laptop creaks ever closer to the abyss.
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Yeah, this really needs to end. Buy him a MacBook and some Viagra and leave him to it. Also buy him a car. 🚗 I’ll buy him whatever as long as there isn’t 500 more pages about your dad. You can figure it out. We believe in you, and we have no idea about the relationship who you live one door over from his precious laptop and “backup.” eightysixed fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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The Lord Bude posted:current conversations are all around whether he keeps using MS Office or makes the switch to numbers Also, have fun with this if he has complicated equations, pivot tables and macros. It won't work. e: I mean, it will, you'd just have to rewrite them; they won't migrate over the way you think they will. quote:Any issues generally come down to his total unwillingness to just ‘take someone’s word for it’. He wouldn’t put any more stock in what a stranger says any more than he does in what I say. Being as we’re all strangers and whatnot. eightysixed fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Nov 22, 2023 |
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Question, when I hit CMD+Period, this note? taking app comes up. Is this built into macOS or is this another app on my system? I can't find it anywhere, and the title bar doesn't show any context. edit: also I played with it a bit and I can't save notes, so what is this for?
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eightysixed posted:Also, have fun with this if he has complicated equations, pivot tables and macros. It won't work. It’s all very basic poo poo as far as I know, but my spreadsheet experience extends roughly as far as ‘I want to make a pretty table’ so my only contribution there is to let him test poo poo on my computer so he can decide for himself. and since you seem to be getting quite agitated, I will let you all get back to talking about how good Arc is or whatever it was you were all doing before I popped in
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As someone that has had to do tech support for an "eccentric" family member (before he stopped using laptops entirely  ), I am enjoying this in a weird vicarious way.
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kiwid posted:Question, when I hit CMD+Period, this note? taking app comes up. I just tried it on Monterey and got nothing. It has to be a separate app, I think. Also, it would be a neat little feature, but the whole ‘not able to save’ kind of kills it.
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eightysixed posted:I just tried it on Monterey and got nothing. It has to be a separate app, I think. Also, it would be a neat little feature, but the whole ‘not able to save’ kind of kills it. Hmm, I'm on Ventura. Any way to trace this somehow? I looked in activity monitor but there is too much detail in there.
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kiwid posted:Hmm, I'm on Ventura. Any way to trace this somehow? I looked in activity monitor but there is too much detail in there. But how did you accidentally hit CMD + . in the first place? 
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When you open the window does pressing CMD + , open a settings screen? Might give you some more context or end up showing in the dock/menu bar
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Settings > Privacy & Security > Input Monitoring, see what has permissions
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Cold on a Cob posted:As someone that has had to do tech support for an "eccentric" family member (before he stopped using laptops entirely Yeah, same. Kinda like watching a quasi-ASMR video of someone taking care of a hoarder house. e: At least his Dad knows how to use a computer, even if he's extremely particular about it. Trying to janitor my grandfather's while his dementia took hold was... not fun. Tayter Swift fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Nov 23, 2023 |
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