Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 17, 2023

Reboot or “give you the boot”?

What if they wait 5 hours to plug him back in?

No life support, Thank you!

Fortunately we don’t run on Microsoft.

Old IT techs never die, they just refuse to reboot after being plugged in.

A cold start, I guess.

“Dr. Frankenstein to the ICU stat. Victor Frankenstein…”

I don’t know if he can Fortran the future with all the errors that are compiled on that poor machine.

For birds, or even humans, that’s a bit drastic a cure. We should just lose weight. That’ll work wonders.

If I’m gone, please leave me gone.

as my face turns blue and then black – let it be said of me that the dreaded blue screen took his life!

I think they will probably boot him, then reboot him, then boot him again. :)

From the british show The IT Crowd : have you tried turning it off and on again?

I can’t imagine Cosmo ever wanting to delete his “cookies”.

What an idea!

And if that doesn’t work, upgrade to LIFE-12.

Lately I’ve observed the newest over-solicitousness of the software world: pop-ups advertising new features, or trying to train you, when all they do is get in the way of your job at hand.

Just in the past few days, it’s gotten so frequent (about 20 times today!) that I’m about ready to clobber something at hand — since I’ve already lost my train of thought, thank you very much. Micro-soft-head is the very worst, but others do this too.

The automotive equivalent of this drivel:

“Would you like to learn all about your new Steering Wheel tool?”

“Our new brake pedal feature allows you to slow down!”

“We’ve added a windshield to prevent you from getting (our many many) bugs in your eyes!”

“Learn how to use your window controls for comfortable airflow.”

“Gas cap best practices explained.”

“Do you want to adjust your seat back for optimum comfort?”

Software developers, remember that your tool looms largest in YOUR life, not mine. Your job is to do your service and stay out of my way.

When I have ‘problems’ with my smart phone, I usually forget to try that handy solution. My router – I’ve gotten used to resetting that, Shows which one I use the most. If I didn’t have to plug the phone in about every other day, I’d probably forget I even had it. All I seem to get are potential robo-calls and tele-marketers.

A few minutes ago nothing was working. I tried unplugging the modem, then I realized I couldn’t figure out where it was. I looked over and saw something other than an error message, and my music never stopped playing, so that wasn’t it, but the problem cleared up on its own.