Quick Questions?

I like the "can I interrupt you?" question. My general answer is, "You already have. Why are you asking permission now?"

Sorry for asking "quick questions," Blaine. I'll make them longer next time
 
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Zorba said:
Quick answer: "42".
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mrblaine said:
Why do folks ask if they can ask a quick question? What does the length of time it takes to ask a question have to do with anything? I get it at least daily.

Can I ask you a quick question?
You just did.
Can I ask another quick question?
You just did.
Okay, can I ask two quick questions?
Sure. What is the second one?

Are they asking because they think if they ask a slow question they won't get an answer? Why is it so frequent and why do folks do it?

Just ask the fucking question.
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And I just read this thinking it was gonna be a quick question :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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Hey Blaine I have a quick question... can I call you over the phone and have you diagnose a brake problem when I don't know any of the part names and probably ordered parts for the wrong vehicle since I have no idea what I'm doing? ;):LOL:

I can only imagine the calls you receive.
 
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Apparition said:
Reset and see if it’s still doing it
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Yep - esp. if its a Windows box. Reboot it.

I probably spent 80% of my time cleaning out slow Windows machines so they'd run faster. Windows seldom/never does any garbage collection and slows down as a result. XP was notorious for crapping all over its registry.
 
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Zorba said:
Yep - esp. if its a Windows box. Reboot it.

I probably spent 80% of my time cleaning out slow Windows machines so they'd run faster. Windows seldom/never does any garbage collection and slows down as a result. XP was notorious for crapping all over its registry.
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r/linuxmasterrace
 
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rasband said:
r/linuxmasterrace
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Yea - as I've said before, "next time" I'm going back to Linux after a 20 year hiatus. I'm tired of Apple's bugs, decontenting, and overall stupidity. Microsoft - even on the rare occasions that they manage to get something right, there's still ain't nobody happy. Generally, just brain dead implementations of industry standards, add spyware and now they're following Apple down the decontenting "make my computer work like a smartphone" rabbit hole. Windows 7 was peak Windows, 8 was a fiasco, 10 was ugly as home made sin, but worked. 11 is another fiasco, and still has the Win 8 ugliness.
 
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HA I didn't say "quick" on our last conversation, just started with "question..." and asked the question. I had to go back and check. Get straight to the fckn.
 
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Yea - as I've said before, "next time" I'm going back to Linux after a 20 year hiatus. I'm tired of Apple's bugs, decontenting, and overall stupidity. Microsoft - even on the rare occasions that they manage to get something right, there's still ain't nobody happy. Generally, just brain dead implementations of industry standards, add spyware and now they're following Apple down the decontenting "make my computer work like a smartphone" rabbit hole. Windows 7 was peak Windows, 8 was a fiasco, 10 was ugly as home made sin, but worked. 11 is another fiasco, and still has the Win 8 ugliness.
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They're sticking with the "every other" one is good. 98, XP, 7, 10, ...

But yeah, I tried to install 10 and 11 for fun... Found ads in the file browser. Glad I put that on a spare drive so I could just format it and move along.
 
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rasband said:
They're sticking with the "every other" one is good. 98, XP, 7, 10, ...

But yeah, I tried to install 10 and 11 for fun... Found ads in the file browser. Glad I put that on a spare drive so I could just format it and move along.
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yea - that's crap. I don't put up with ads in my operating system under ANY circumstances. More smartphone bullshit I'm sure. 11 is a particular fiasco because of the brainless TPM requirements - now M$ is getting into the Nanny State business just like Apple.

If you just HAVE to run Win 11, make sure its the "Pro" version that "allows" you to have local and/or domain accounts, none of the "Microsoft account" pseudo-smartphone horse crap, complete with a PIN to log in!
 
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Zorba said:
Yea - as I've said before, "next time" I'm going back to Linux after a 20 year hiatus. I'm tired of Apple's bugs, decontenting, and overall stupidity. Microsoft - even on the rare occasions that they manage to get something right, there's still ain't nobody happy. Generally, just brain dead implementations of industry standards, add spyware and now they're following Apple down the decontenting "make my computer work like a smartphone" rabbit hole. Windows 7 was peak Windows, 8 was a fiasco, 10 was ugly as home made sin, but worked. 11 is another fiasco, and still has the Win 8 ugliness.
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Microsoft just "fixed" Windows 7 so that Outlook 2010 won't talk to my .msn mail account (since 1996). I called a friend who works for MS and he said they did it on purpose because Win7 is no longer supported, although it is still used by over 100 million people in the world. MS sees that as a huge market for 'Win whatever' and wants us to buy the latest version of smartphone windows. Linux is starting to look pretty good. (BTW, I would have to buy all new hardware to upgrade to the latest version of Win - something called "UEFI, Secure Boot".)
 
I ask for a quick question when I know there's a whole background that could go with it but I'm not trying to take too much of the answerers time. It's usually when I'm trying to answer something tangentially related and need the quick answer to complete it, but plan to research the background on my own at a later time.
 
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