Man, I just had the dubious pleasure of helping my dad migrate from an iPhone 8 to 12 over the phone. It was a several hour/day affair. He had a different account for iCloud and the app store, and had gotten his account locked on the second. Also, he was going from 256gb to 128gb, so we had to move some stuff to iCloud. Add to that the fact I’m an android user.

We ended up putting my mom’s phone with the camera facing his screen during video calls.

I think his least favorite change was going from touchid to faceid. The screen is a lot bigger, though.

I would wager he wasn’t paying attention. I wonder how many social media posts he made during that?

Id being one billion doesn’t mean it’s the billionth repo.

Says the guy with 4 upvotes.

That’s testing in production, with live ammo. Glad it didn’t maim anyone.

Op wrote software development, but the example is more infrastructure focused. Which is a lot easier to parse

Yeah, color and text say save, icon says delete. So it’s a 2 to 1 chance it’s going to save. Good odds!

Schrodinger’s shut-in!

The company I used to work at paid for me to get two certifications on Dynamics. Once I left there and got another job, I didn’t put th3 certifications on my CV so I wouldn’t be called to work with this.

It actually was! Some crazy energy that guy has.

I feel your pain.

But not for lack of choice, that’s the point here.

Very good idea there. I’m starting to have to keep track of my parents passwords (because they don’t) and removing spam/disinformation from their Facebook/email/YouTube regularly might resolve many issues.

Like someone mentioned, shoveling the shit. Can’t stopped it from getting there, but I can remove it.

True. I also wanted a senior mode on Apple family groups.

Aren’t they just releasing anything, just to avoid copyrights expiring?

Not specifically, also any and all social media. Influencers in general are a cancer on society

It’s like one of those timed gacha games.

Transition periods are usually hard, for some

I love your take. And extrapolating from it a bit, a lot of what we consider ‘artists’ weren’t really making ‘art’, as you define it. They were (and mostly still are) drawing/painting, etc pictures as a means to an end. For money; and now they are mad or worried or scared (with reason) about losing their livelihood. Because a cheaper, not necessarily better but certainly with a better cost/benefit ratio, comes along.

Ah, got it. If I try, I might practice in the shower first.