Or while you’re on Zoom. It’s a CAMERA, people. It sees you and transmits that picture to other viewers. That’s kind of the point. 
I learned in kindergarten to keep my hands and arms close to my body when walking from one place to another.
I also learned to walk in line on the right.
I’m pretty sure if you are of walking age you went to kindergarten as well.
And you learned it also.
Arms and hands in, schooch over toward the right.
Always.
Pass left. Walkers, bicyclists, stoners all do it.
My voicemail does that. Very annoying; and I can never get the number right the first time through (though that matters less when it also shows on the phone screen.)
Sometimes, however, you can help to change it. (Presuming, of course, that you’re not talking about the laws of physics.)
I assume most people even older people own a smart phone. Even flip phones have text capability.
Tell whoever is repeating the Need help getting a device or internet number to you to text their number to you. You have a copy that you can add them directly to your phone contact list.
Plus you can refer to the text later then write the number down.
Just about all business contacts have the option to call them directly from the link you googled, just press the phone icon. Done
Then go to calls sent if you need to add that business to your contact list.
I know I haven’t received a phone book since 20015.
Where I live our carrier doesn’t provide land lines. I am in a rural area.
If you or anyone else needs assistance with financial, age related, and a new phone or internet services please refer to the link. They even have free classes on how to use a smart phone and basic computer skills.
Agreed. But your starting point, the one you have to deal with, is the world as it is…
There are a million political examples of people voting in the expectation of absurd outcomes, because they have no understanding of the actual real world (none of which I’m going to address, because I don’t want to get myself modded). But one I can address, one which comes up from time to time: someone or other that I know will get it into their heads that they can just start up a business “Doing some buying and selling”. Oh, I see - and what area of your particular expertise are you planning to exploit. “Oh, anything, really, it doesn’t really matter what…”
The world as you would wish it to be.
j
And food should not be eaten out of a dumpster, unless you’re dying of hunger.
If there’s fragile art work hanging on a wall, don’t hold your kid up and encourage her to bang on it with her fists. I actually had to tell a woman that once, and she was indignant that I didn’t want her daughter destroying my artwork that took me several weeks to create. Grrrrrr.
This is true.
Understanding a problem as it exists is very often necessary to the potential success of trying to fix it.
Do not eat the moldy cheese. Especially not the green mold cream cheese.
Just ask my brother-in-law.
If you are extremely careful not to contaminate the contents with mouth or fingers, milk remains very tasty, but sour and lumpy, for 3 weeks past expiration. I do it regularly. And your example does not equate 3 weeks with 12:01.
At a 1950s-60s dinner, my grandma would say:
“[name, name], strong and able, get your elbows off the table.
This is not a horse’s stable, [name, name] string and able.”
“Yes. They find them quite delicious.”
Your digestion’s different than mine. I’d be in the john all day if I tried that. – unless, just possibly, you’re starting with raw milk, which sours differently than pasteurized. I’m not sure how my digestion would react to that, and am unlikely to try it, except in the form of cheeses or other cultured products made by somebody who knows what they’re doing.
A couple of things you shouldn’t need to tell people, but in practice apparently do need to:
Don’t try to pet, handle, or otherwise approach other people’s livestock (including crossing fences into pastures) without checking with their humans first. A cow, horse, or even chicken is not a stuffed toy, and is not guaranteed to act like one.
A dog behaving in one fashion on the other side of a fence, door, or car window from you may suddenly behave entirely differently if you breach that dividing line. This is not all that different from the likelihood that you might smile as you pass a stranger or slight acquaintance on the street but freak out if they broke into your house.
Stream banks, oceanside or lakefront cliffs, etc. are not guaranteed to stay put. The assorted geological and weather factors that caused them in the first place are still in existence.
Seriously? I think you’ve mistaken this for the “Things I personally don’t like and wish people would stop” thread.
Something that came up this weekend…
It doesn’t matter what your taste in music is, your neighbors do not want to hear it pounding out of an outdoor PA system on your deck all day long and late into the night.
Interpreting the OP to include “things that you should understand about life” (OK, bending the rules a bit) allows me to propose two aphorisms from unlikely sources.
You are what your record says you are. Bill Parcells was talking about football, but I submit that this can be applied to life in general.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Mike Tyson was talking about boxing, but hell - ain’t that life through and through?
j
What do you mean by ‘archival’? Solid state is a perfectly fine backup medium.
Archival usually means cold storage.
SSDs require powering up every so often to retain data. There are two schools of thought on this with real world reports of data corruption occurring: [ssds lose data - Google Search]
(ssds lose data - Google Search)
The bigger issue is that if/when SSDs fail, they’re likely to fail all at once and recovery if possible is extremely difficult and extremely expensive, $$$$,
The same holds true for flash drives and SD cards which are the modern day equivalent of floppy discs meant for temporary storage as they also tend to fail completely and without notice
Ahhh…this is confirmation bias! IMO, no, because I believe I’ve presented both sides.
Hard drives can also fail completely without notice, but there’s a greater chance of at least partial data recovery, though it’s still expensive, $$$-$$$$.
Neither is perfect, but SSDs less so because of the potential issues stated above, plus their higher cost per TB. That’s why we have backups!
So what do you consider ‘archival’? Your summary seems to say “nothing is”.
Move on top of the magnetic sensors right in back of the thick white line at the traffic light, lest ye be stranded there unmoving for the rest of eternity…
[I actually had this happen 2 weeks ago. I pointed out the window (I was waiting in the next right-hand lane) to the white line, the person STILL didn’t get the point, and of course the left turn arrow didn’t come on.]