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@Alice lol. I'm sharing the more humerous call of what amounts to about 20+ years of weekly and at times near daily calls, visits, requests for stuff, then as I'm setting things up deciding it isn't needed. Guess it's reaching a tipping point, so yea, this plus at least a 1000 other ones over that time period...
We can call it the "straw that's breaking my back". Every (and I mean every) chat about technology ends the same way, an accusation of personal attack... -
Chill man, they prolly put up with you when you were a kid and didn't understand anything. I'm not judging you or anything. Just pointing out a different perspective. Please don't feel bad that I'm commenting without actually knowing anything about you. Please don't get me wrong. :)
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@linuxer4fun Since you know you got me wrong, discard the message and re-read what I commented. Repeat until validation successful.
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@linuxer4fun Well, you're prolly on some different encoding scheme then. You should just leave it, I would say.
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