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A day in my life. This morning Dell was doing it's update on my laptop before I left for work, so later when I knew my wife was up I asked her via text to shut my laptop off.

W: "You left your laptop on this morning."
Me: "I know, it was still doing an update this morning. I sent you a text."
W: "Leaving your computer on all day is going to burn it up."
Me: "Its 8:30, been maybe a half hour isn't a day."
W: "Still wasting electricity. How do I turn this thing off?"
Me: "It's just like yours."
W: "No, your computer is way different than mine. Just tell me how to turn it off"
Me: "My computer is running Windows 11, yours is Windows 10, shutting down is exactly the same"
W: "I don't understand, yours looks completely different. Stop being an ass and just tell me"
Me: "Select Start, then shut down"
W: "Select what? There isn't anything that says Start"
Me: "Sorry, click the little icon in the bottom left. Looks like four little blue squares. That's the Windows Start menu button, just like yours."
W: "OK, now what?"
Me: "Shut down"
W: "Shut down what? I don't see anything"
Me: "The icon that looks like power button next to my name"
W: "There is nothing next to your name except your picture"
Me: "It'll be on the right hand side"
W: "Where the clock is?"
Me: "No, on the Start menu, where you see my picture, there should be a button to turn it off."
W: "No, it went away"
Me: "What do you mean went away?"
W: "All that disappeared when you told me to click over by the clock."
Me: "I didn't say to click on the clock, anyway, doesn't matter. Start over, select the icon in the bottom left"
W: "You're not listening. There is nothing there when I click that. You're such as ass. You cannot even tell me how to turn off this stupid computer. I'm busy, you can turn this thing off when you get home."
<a few minutes later I text my daughter>
Me: "Baby girl, can you turn off my computer?"
<10 seconds later>
H: "Done. Anything else?"
Me: "Nope. Thank you."

Comments
  • 3
    @retoor > "Yeah, weird how people lose their way when it looks like a bit different huh"

    This is the same woman who reads our insurance's benefit details (the ones that are hundreds of pages) and comprehends it enough to find the loopholes.

    We had a contract with a roofing company for a new roof, siding, gutters etc (hail storm damage), and she found several duplicate entries, just worded slightly different, that they were trying to double-bill the insurance. She 'called them out', which the company rep tried to make sound like she didn't understand construction contracts.

    TL;DR, when she essentially said 'OK, I'll call our insurance rep and a lawyer to help me understand your contract', the rep (within an hour) had an adjusted contract. My wife fired them anyway, demanding our non-refundable deposit back (which we got back), saying the contract still was misleading.

    *I* would have never caught the details she caught. Its a superpower I don't have.
  • 2
    @PaperTrail > "when she essentially said 'OK, I'll call our insurance rep"

    She did contact our insurance rep and he was dumbfounded that she knew how to find the discrepancies ("How did you even know where to look?").

    Her response to me afterwards: "How did *he* not know? That's is his job! No wonder these insurance companies are going bankrupt. Idiots."
  • 2
    @PaperTrail that makes sense

    she builds a universe of stringent details. she's not used to adapting it. because in legal papers that stuff is huge but never changes. so her brain doesn't have experience in changing mental structures. but she can consume huge structures to find loopholes in them since they're not changing live while you work with them
  • 1
    @jestdotty > "she builds a universe of stringent details."

    That is brilliantly accurate.
  • 2
    Congrats on having a good daughter.

    Wife, too.

    We each have our own skill sets, I guess.
  • 2
    Reminds me of my mom ;P

    And she used to teach kids computers like 30 years ago ;P
  • 1
    To be fair, Windows 11's initial look is a bit too similar to that of macOS's.

    But otherwise, yeah, the Start Menu has been mostly unchanged for years.
  • 2
    @D-4got10-01 win 11's start menu has a very different look IMO
  • 2
    @BordedDev Barely different from the one introduced in Windows XP, I'd say.

    ...at least once you've clicked that 'All Apps'.
  • 2
    @D-4got10-01 Then you're missing all the ads ;P
  • 3
    I still don't get why Microsoft has constantly changed their windows UI (and not for the better). One of the many reasons why I prefer Linux.
  • 1
    @BordedDev Oh noes. !my ads.

    /jk

    I'm sure I've turned them off the first chance I got.
  • 1
    @devux-bookmark > "I still don't get why Microsoft has constantly changed their windows UI"

    Ironically, the Microsoft Shell is completely customizable. Since, I think, Windows 7, the Shell hasn't changed, they've just applied a different theme/skin ever since. There used to be a huge 3rd party market that updated the Windows skin/theme. Wanted Windows to look exactly a Mac? There was a theme. Wanted a Linux theme? Windows 8, Windows 95? It was out there. Until our networking dept dictated a 'standard' desktop, I used a minimalist theme (no desktop icons, very thin start bar docked at the top, only the clock in the system tray), with everything I needed+used tucked away in Windows 3.11 style folder groups. Perfection.
  • 0
    I was a bit surprised when a coworker had no idea about the purpose of the 'F1' key.

    Young people, these days...
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