theredknight

I once installed Ubuntu for an 80 year old Finnish woman who escaped the Nazis as a child running across a frozen lake. This was a decade ago. She took to it like a duck to water and said it was great because it made sense, she could easily install anything and it didn't crash. Give your dad the chance at least.

There's a set of questions an author named Byron Katie wrote about for managing limiting beliefs. First you have to isolate the belief that's causing you pain. Then you ask the following:

1 - Is this belief true?

2 - Can I absolutely know this belief is true?

If you are still saying yes to these you're not ready for 3 and 4.

3 - How do you feel when you believe this? Be sure to go into this really well. I find the more you put into this step the better the results at the last question. So where in your body does the feeling live? What temperature is it? How intense is it out of 10? Is it sharp or dull? Is it dry or wet? Does it change is it constant? Maybe even what color is it? You want to really witness and give credence to this feeling here.

And finally

4 - Who would you be or what would you be doing if you didn't have this belief?

I can guess what answers you'd give here but you know so I don't want to muddy that for you.

Edit: formatting

Seriously. If this broke him it gets so much worse.. but honestly op, this is how you learn what to do and what not to.

I once saw a road sign that was supposed to say Putt Corners but someone painted it to say Butt Corners. Which is amazing because butts don't have corners.

Cats can carry toxoplasmosis which seems to have a correlation to schizophrenia. This could be the cause of crazy cat lady syndrome: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29068607/

Inception is one of the worst executions of an interesting idea. My imagination can imagine anything. Hollywood's? Well I guess you imagined too hard so now there's people with guns. Oh and this applies to everyone.

Lol by who? Octogenarian Congress members who get more bribes than emails?

Lol you haven't met consultants

You mean the Evian Conference https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89vian_Conference

He's technically correct. As long as the electoral college exists, many peoples votes effectively don't matter because that state will always go one way. Once that occurs, the opposing votes are effectively erased.

The logo for Odin has a Nordic rune in it which is popular to white supremacists because the Nazis also co-opted them as symbols. They are not by nature about supremacy, they are an old alphabet.

I have a theory that the crowd of people who learned computers or iPads etc from GUIs only, they have a harder time with terminal. Those who used DOS a lot find it to be a happy space.

While what you say might have grains of truth in it, it's likely that the story was originally a warning about eating a poisonous plant that resembles an onion more than an attack on asexuals. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(plant)

Yeah if you read the book they actually tell you what's going on.

The story doesn't define him as asexual. It does say he scorned and mocked people who then cursed him:

‘So may he himself love, and so may he fail to command what he loves!’

https://ovid.lib.virginia.edu/trans/Metamorph3.htm#476975711

Also according to this article at Cornell, Ovid was the sole poet of the story and there aren't any earlier versions, so it is likely both of our interpretations are askew.

https://www.cornellcollege.edu/classical_studies/CLA216-2-A/narcissus-echo/

I'm not saying they can't overcome it or that it is universal. It's just a theory I have based on early observations.

Now, it does make sense that a GUI only person would have to play catch up compared to a person the same age who has a decade of exposure to using a terminal if they're going to code in a terminal. It's just different mindsets and workflows.

At my work the younger coders who say they prefer GUI coding (and are terminal avoidant) seem to have more trouble and their debugging methods have many more steps and take longer. Many times they run everything in Jupyter notebooks and avoid running the processes in terminal at all. This is a problem if they put off end to end testing until the very last moment instead of testing incrementally.

Also, for context, this is to create production level Python code which is to be deployed on a terminal only server.

I'd want to make a measurable experiment with a larger sample size to confirm this theory though, as the systems are complex enough there are many possible reasons for these patterns. I'm just very aware these days of that moment of hesitance, like a deer in headlights, when some people have to open the terminal to solve their problem.

https://archive.ph/mtJYl

Ovid was a Roman not a Greek.