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PoindexterOglethorpe

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9. I do far less on line than anyone else who is not an actual luddite.
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 01:04 PM
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I do voice, and rarely, text on my phone. I don't do the promiscuous on-line stuff most people do on their phones. Oddly enough, I simply don't get things suddenly taking over my computer. Safe Computing is a lot like Safe Sex.

I have something called SpamArrest on my computer which means 99% of spam goes straight to that folder. And I've long known not to click on anything unsolicited.

I'm also good at researching, don't just always go for the first result. I'm also inclined to do things like take my computer back to the store where I bought it and have them help out.

I am sorry your wife had the printer problem.

And if you don't google, how do you find anything? I've never gotten into trouble with it.

I also point out that I've been using computers since before most of you were born. In 1969 I went to work for Mohawk Airlines, which was the second airline in the entire world to get a computerized reservations system.

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