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[holding fist up to sky] %LOCAAAAAAAAAALAPPDATA%!!!!

when vnc lags while typing https://computerfairi.es/media/voMD5uBovJC1nc3S5fY

accidentally boosting a rad toot and then deciding "well ok then i guess thats there now"

...?! https://computerfairi.es/media/ny60DWM2vNw3V7bVzxY

i really hate saying things like this but like holy shit please do not ask me what the "-u" in "sudo su -u" does im not manpages

me: okay i helped out some people in a support channel today! feel good, now i cna just chill out and
some people: hey just like fifty more questions pls
me: Uuuuuuuu

someone running linux just asked me how to run a shell script and i'm pretending to have gone idle because i cant deal with this rn

asking "what issue are you having" and then immediately typing "be more specific than that" before they've finished responding because sometimes you can just tell

on a related note, starting a video game on a laptop that is far past its lifespan is an exercise in patience

doing extremely mundane shit for other people is great idle work
like, mundane shit for other people who are on the internet
like someone wanted someone to literally join a tf2 game they were in and play engineer for them and i just was like "well i have nothing better to do"

tabbing back into mastodon and seeing a post in your notifications for 5 seconds and then disappear 😶

(the second person had managed to install grub over the windows mbr and didn't have a windows boot disc so they couldn't repair their mbr)

i have two tech support modes https://computerfairi.es/media/eSyKMMZPlw3i6GQFZ7o https://computerfairi.es/media/iOExCMfXGAeLskjj_cw

are discord images breaking for anyone else who uses discord or

twurl is just like "what if curl but instead of being designed for internet, designed for api (specifically: birdsite api)"
it's okay

is there something like twurl but for mastodon yet