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  • Too complex for someone that isn’t already interested. Hell, the vast majority of users couldn’t reinstall Windows if they lost the restore partition.

    Maybe school them on a live USB “install”? That’s how I started oh so many years back. No risk, easy way to get comfy with a test drive. And if they like it, there’s always (?) an install button.

    OTOH, dumb as it sounds, seems like most people don’t have a handy USB drive these days. At my last job, a software dev, I don’t think I talked to a single end user that had a USB available for a Windows reinstall. Weird.

    I’d recommend a Debian distro. Whatever one’s preference, Debian just works and seems to have the most documentation, especially for noobs.





  • I don’t have an answer. Look at the map, the Mississippi is one hell of a watershed. How do we keep the farmland fertilizers out of it?

    I studied horticulture, first time I understood what the quadratic equation was really for was when tasked with optimizing fertilizer spread. Farmers aren’t slinging that shit around for fun.

    Best I got is cracking on animal waste. Oklahoma was suing Arkansas for all the poultry waste coming down and destroying the Arkansas River. No idea what became of all that, couple of decades since I’ve been there.



  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devThe Job
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    I know why they do this. The last guy’s core job was Ask Jeeves, but he was involved in and at least touched all those other technologies. HR looks at last guy’s resume, figures those are the skills needed, posts a mess.

    SOURCE: Been the last guy, seen my replacement posting.