If you don't have anything nice to say


(Terence Dean) #142

Bunny you are a champion, whenever I see you copping it from some zealot, out come the references to so many articles, that it gives me a head ache almost instantaneously. I love your style!!! :rofl: :rofl:


(8 year Ketogenic Veteran) #143

I haven’t seen any bullying at all. What I have seen is people saying they are bullied. I have yet to see a case of true bullying here. For that, refer to Facebook LOL


(Terence Dean) #144

Thanks Brenda, that’s reassuring.


(Doug) #145

Candy, that 8 MB RAM is what my first computer came standard with. I paid an extra $400 for another 4 megabytes. Thank goodness memory prices have come down…


(Running from stupidity) #146

Ah, I worked for a company that sold them - little 6" CRT in them. Compaq, IIRC, which I probably don’t.

Heh, my first one had 2 x 3.5" floppies. That was a PITA so we paid $600 for a 40MB HDD. Then a few years later, for my 486DX-66, I upgraded and added a 400MB HDD that I paid $600 for, and was amazed at how the prices were coming down…


(Kirk) #147

Huh???


(Candy Lind) #148

The Four Yorkshireman Sketch. Classic!


(Omar) #149

my first calculator was a slide ruler.

and my first real calculator was hp 25

I still have it


(Jane) #150

But did you have a Hercules graphics card?

< really dating myself here > :laughing:


(Running from stupidity) #151

I knew of them but I can’t remember if it was in my machine or another one I was using, so maybe not. Same damn era, though :slight_smile:


(G. Andrew Duthie) #152

Commodore PET.

Just sayin’

BASIC forever!


(G. Andrew Duthie) #153

Agreed, for the most part.

We have had our fair share of people who have anger issues and choose to attempt to work them out here.

What invariably happens is that either a.) a moderator notices and warns them to knock it off, or b.) a member flags one of their posts, followed by a).

If the person in question doesn’t clean up their act, they are shown the door. The mods here are not inclined to put up with crap. I feel for people who have emotional issues. It sucks. But this isn’t an anger management forum, it’s a keto forum.


#154

It would be even cheaper if it weren’t for the price fixing the last few years. Hopefully the class action helps correct the situation.


(G. Andrew Duthie) #155

I’m a mod here, and as I posted a few minutes ago, we take seriously the importance of making this a nice place for people to get help.

But I’m going to ask that you take a step back and consider whether you might be taking things a little too personally. Yes, there will be people you encounter here who aren’t always uber-polite, and some may challenge you on one point or another. But the vast majority of the time, they are doing so for your benefit. They might be trying to teach you to fish rather than giving you a fish, or trying to get you to see a point that has been hashed out over and over.

Not everything is a personal attack. I get your frustration, but I also hear some demands that things should be the way you want them. That’s not always how the world works. And it’s not how we get to live when we encounter others. So your choices are to stick around, and deal with the fact that not everyone will meet your standard for friendliness, or go your way. But if you think you’re going to find a friendlier bunch elsewhere, I wish you luck. I’ve seen what it’s like in many of the keto FB groups…trolls galore.

You’ve been a member of this forum for less than 3 months. I’ve been here since the beginning, and watched this community grow from nothing to more than 15,000 users (correction, more than 30,000 users). Given the size of this forum, it’s remarkable how few issues we see. Your experience is not consistent with what most users see here, so again, perhaps you might consider whether you are reading more into people’s responses than is really there.

Up to you whether you want to stick around or not. Either way, I wish you well.


(Terence Dean) #157

Haha my 486 DX-2 with a Math Co processor had a massive 248 MB HDD, 16MB RAM, that PC was the best I could buy in 1994, it cost $4,600 what a rip off!! Laptops were something like $6,000! Windows 3.1 cost $100 and Apple’s OS cost around $2,000, now that was a real rip-off, no wonder everyone bought Microsoft’s crappy OS and made Bill a rich man.


(Allie) #158

I remember some old BBC thing that you had to type massive programs into just to create really basic games… and if there was just one error in the program code it wouldn’t work.

This was it.

First computer I ever used, it was my brothers.


#159

Does this apply for ALL of us? :grin:

Oh God, I can’t believe we have this in common! After wasting away in the 8th ring of App hell, I finally gave up and bought an Android phone. Please tell me you switched to iPhone.

Well, that’s ironic. :wink:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Thank you, Candy for getting this thread back on track!

Never mind.

Well said, @devhammer.


(TJ Borden) #160

Yep, open invite. :rofl:


(TJ Borden) #161

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:


(Running from stupidity) #162

No chance. I had a 3GS when it was the only way to tether, and I needed that as a journo, but Apple prices are even stupider down here than they are in the US, and I really hate the whole “We know what’s best for you” thing. Currently running - waits for laughter - a Nokia 6.1, and for $300, it’s great. My wife stole my last phone which is a Xiaomi A1, both are running Android one, but around $200-300, and both excellent.

But man, I loved the Windows phone OS (was it 8.x I had on my 1520? Can’t remember). It was the best OS by miles. Live tiles, super-snappy, oh yeah.

I am amused by the idea that we need your permission.