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I don’t know where to put this, but I had to share this with someone.
I had the most bizarre exchange … EVER.
A coworker just went into a full-blown panic attack because She overheard (I wasn’t even talking to her) that I’m planning to upgrade my personal laptop, at home from windows 10 to a Linux desktop.
After calming her down I explained that it was for home use and would not push it for the office.
She understood that, but that was not the reason for her panic.

Her reason was… and I wish I was making this up… Skynet runs on Linux.

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I wish that was the stupidest thing I’d heard today…

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Wow. I wonder how she got it into her brain that Skynet was a real threat, to the level where she would freak out about that.

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To be honest. If I could create Skynet on my personal laptop that is not win11 compatible … I would.
I think most of us would.

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Is her name Sarah Connor?

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Wait… you have users that know what SkyNet and Linux are?!? Mine are still looking at me confused when I say “Please click on the start button”…

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Apparently it does. But probably not the one she’s worried about.

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I know, but it’s all going to be ok. Jurassic Park ran on Linux, too.

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Skynet is (d)evolving and now runs in Windows Subsystem for Linux.

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Mine are still looking for the “any” key.
@jessevas I thought it was Unix?

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Linux…Unix… 6 of one.
It’s not GNU, that’s for sure.

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Has to be Linux. They were so cheap the only had one IT guy and they underpaid him. They would never pay for a Unix system.

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Oh, but don’t you remember?? They spared no expense! :rofl:

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I got a, “I cannot see the screen!”
I go, no worries, my eyesight ain’t what it used to be either.
They go, “can you make it easier to see the ‘words’?”
Sure lemme make the fonts bigger and magnify things. So I do.
“No no no that just makes things larger, I need to be able to see the words better!”

I was like “OK… Have you used the magnifier?” <> “see everything is much clearer and larger!”

“No I was hoping to make the words clearer.”

The employee was using (2) 24" monitors running at 1080p. I offered and demonstrated (2) 27" monitors running at 1080p, which is what a 20% increase in size of everything on the screen.

“No that just makes things bigger, and its just too much screen.”

I’m still at a loss exactly what would make the words clearer. We even attempted higher resolution but with increased magnification, using a 4k monitor and 200% scaling figuring maybe the jaggy edges on the lower resolutions were the issue - er nope. Figuring maybe the IT department can take up a collection for cataract surgery, not sure where we go from here.

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An optometrist.

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Glasses?

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Yep, that sounds like my daily jam too… Just you wait until Outlook suddenly decides to not apply font smoothing anymore… :wink:

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Still laughing over this.

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My thought exactly. I’m new to glasses and just got my first pair of progressive lenses earlier this year. While I noticed they definitely helped both my near and far vision, everything in the midrange (which includes the two 24" boxes I stare at all day) is just a touch blurry, almost like double vision. There’s no amount of magnification that’s going to fix that, so I’m now saving up for another pair of computer glasses.

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