Today's peeve

[ciphergoth]

Todays peeve is idiots who say "I got an error message" but are incapable of even attempting to read the message. Did it cross your mind that the text in that message might be for something, and you might learn something by reading it? If I don't know the error, how can I fix your problem? Or are all error messages just computerese for "SOMETHING FUCKED UP, MAKE SOMEONE ELSE FIX YOUR PROBLEM"?

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Comments

[barakta]

I get that a lot from my mum, and when talkiung her thru any kind of wizard/dialogue box she will automatically click on the the little cross at the top! I have no idea why this is instinctive to her.

At least when my dad lived at home he would obsessively copy out error messages and record conditions of crash obsessively. I can forgive his inability to cope with any OS written after 1980.

Fneh.

Natalya