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Topic: If you are not currently fixing up your parents' computer…

Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #58,098

…then I genuinely pity you.

Killer Lettuce? !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later[^] [v] #744,750

TOTAL clowno.

You must teach them self-sufficiency. Or at least buy them a more simple computer.

Wildchild !NvEXY0NyQI joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #744,752

I'm estranged from my mother and my father is computer literate but doesn't celebrate Christmas due to not believing in Santa Claus, so I am not fixing my parents computer.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 19 seconds later, 3 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #744,753

@744,750 (Killer Lettuce? !!iNo3FkiZx)
lettuce pls

Anonymous A (OP) double-posted this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 4 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #744,754

(Actually I am very surprised that rkill and malwareantibytes shows her computer is clean and that Mom's only issues are with installing some updates)

Metæ !goTRUMPlbg joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #744,781

@OP
Windows XP, IE 6, and 9,001 malware infections?

I had to put my stepdad's computer on Linux Mint because he kept having, um, troubles. Last year I got my parents a Chromebook and they couldn't be happier. I think Chrome OS is great for old people. Most of them just want to check their Facebook.

(Edited 2 minutes later.)

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #744,809

@previous (Metæ !goTRUMPlbg)
There were only 8 minor findings from MAB!

I think her woes are entirely from having too little RAM—2 GB! The resource monitor shows heavy disk thrashing and a pegged CPU. I'm pretty sure it's the usual IO-bound resource exhaustion.

I recommended she get somebody to install 8 GB RAM and an SSD.

Metæ !goTRUMPlbg replied with this 10 years ago, 53 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #744,814

@previous (A)
You know Gentoo can work comfortably with 2GB and they won't get viruses anymore!
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