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"oh, you know so much! howd you do that?"

"grandma, i literally only typed dir."

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[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.

She was an absolute master at it.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.

I bet one of her previous titles was literally "computer"

[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

thats one of the nicknames the school jocks came up with about me

and i just accepted it bc i actually found it fitting so they had to think of another one lol

[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

mine doesnt even know how to add a custom ringtone to her phone

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mine was convinced that cell phones and landlines were two different networks. Like you couldn't call a landline from a cell and vice versa. This went on for decades, even after we infront of her proved it worked.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Do be fair that took me longer than installing the operating system too.