• cRazi_man@europe.pub
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    7 hours 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.

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      5 hours 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

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      4 hours ago

      Yes! I’ve forged the icon more than once. “Just as ever, click the blue ‘E’”.