Re: I hate computers

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:50:35 -0700
 > 
 > But all this putzing around took forever, so I didn't get anything
 > else done yesterday, since I didn't get up until 1pm.

I wonder if booting into a Live Linux distribution on a USB in order
to read the DVD drive would've worked?  I run Linux on this old
Macbook, but have no idea whether it works on modern ones.  (FWIW,
xorriso on Linux works great for DVDs, much better than the DVD
software that came with Linux in previous years.)

 > Oh, sorry, I left out
 > a step; I had to use Acrobat to stick a cover sheet in front of the
 > statement and also add a header with my name and loan number to
 > each page.

This sort of stuff has become so annoying that, for when signing
documents, I have a digital "rubber stamp" signature for Noelle's
signature that she can just pop into Libreoffice Draw and paste the
signature to avoid the print-sign-scan-repeat cycle.

 > How do people who aren't computer scientists cope with all this???
 > I mean, if it were my mother having to do this she'd have just
 > given up, I think.

I agree that this stuff has got out of hand.

Noelle still depends upon me on how to get things to fax right, etc.
(I too use Sonic for my faxing, BTW.  Some people came to the door to
try to convince me to switch to AT&T; that's when I remembered that
I've had Sonic since 2003 when we moved back to the Bay Area.  Never
looked back.)