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@morph The one we have takes up enough room. :thumb_up_party:

One of the offspring bought the wife and me a Nespresso Vertuo for Christmas. I feel like I'm in one of those 1960s Espresso cafes. All that's missing is the glass cup and saucer. The damn thing produces more froth than Heathrow's fire brigade attempting to smother a burning plane.

I just Googled potential solutions.

𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗿 𝗜𝘁 𝗜𝗻: It makes it frothier!

𝗟𝗲𝘁 𝗜𝘁 𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲: It sits there!

𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁: Yeah, with a desert spoon!

𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝘀:𝗔𝗱𝗱 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗸/𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁: Doesn't work!

@kevie Porn

@kevie On a more serious note. I'd argue 90% of users are not 'Geeks', and of that 90%, a high proportion use a computer (iPad, Tablet, etc) for browsing, specifically online shopping, either from high street stores such as NEXT, FatFace or Amazon, and booking holidays.

85% of non-Geeks use Facebook or Instagram, with only a small portion using 𝕏, but I don't think your question is that simple or at least the question is too wide. A better insight would be age ranges. 10 - 20, 20 - 40, etc.

CoPilot is a steaming pile of ........ it basically keeps responding: "I can't do that, Dave."

"I wasn't able to generate a response. Send a new prompt or start a new chat"

#Pathetic

@morph Pfft, that's what you think. I might not have many followers, but I've a LOT of watchers. 🕵🏻 🔍

@morph They're no longer sending me descriptions. Another few hours and I'll have the 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 brigade on my back.

Oi @altbot wake up! You've stopped giving me AltText, and you know what will happen: I'll have the AltText Nazis on my back.

Why, for the love of the Pond Gods, do people insist on contacting IT Support on behalf of somebody else!!!

If you were ill, would you ask someone else to go to the doctors for you?

How are we supposed to help when we're not speaking to the person with the problem?

#RantOver

@woo It's the classic syndrome: someone in a higher authority must be more intelligent than the workers underneath them. Heck, why else would they be higher up the food chain?

In my experience, even people who own their own company can be as thick as two short planks.

@kevie

Simple.
To the point.
Nuff Said.

𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔, 𝐘𝐀 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐓𝐄𝐃𝐃𝐘 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐑!

❤️

Anniversary afternoon tea. For thirty-four years, the daft woman has been putting up with me.

@kevie Mate, false imprisonment is a pretty serious offence! 👮🏻♂️

@luke @theru @morph @Paul

@luke
Close your door, works for me. 🙂

@kevie @theru @morph @Paul

"The Terminator would never stop, it would never leave him... it would always be there. And it would never hurt him, never shout at him or get drunk and hit him, or say it couldn't spend time with him because it was too busy."

-- Terminator

I have to say, AI feels like that. I must have given it the wrong information repeatedly with a project I'm working on today. I've probably done approaching thirty redrafts, and not once has it complained; on the contrary, it's been upbeat all day.

Oi @evan do I call you the plant guy now? 😉

@kevie Thank you. 😘

@kevie I've just told a customer his two PCs were crushed under a delivery van and that replacements will be shipped Monday/Tuesday.

As if I knew his goods would not ship until Monday/Tuesday? 😇 🙏🏻

I suspect I have many qualities transferable to Deliveroo? 🤣

Morning All.
It's Friday, and I'm practising for my retirement job. Working for Deliveroo. 🚴♀️
#TZAG

I was hoping I could try that on. 🤣