Borked up experience today. Provided a laptop for a person, who has more than enough money, but is unwilling to actually spend it on things she needs. As there was a genuine fire hazard (using 15+ old CRT monitor), I was willing to give my laptop as it has no use to me or my closest family anymore.

So, you know the drill. You take out your laptop, you clean it, then wipe disk and install the OS you have access to. As I didn’t want to shell out 120EUR for Win10, I installed Ubuntu. After all, the machine is going to be used for surfing and occasional document writing. For this, Ubuntu with Open/LibreOffice fits the bill.

Imagine my surprise, when the recipient of the laptop specified, the laptop is useless as she does not understand anything. And, of course, after some hand waiving, saying, that this is too much to learn and to grasp.

SHE’S 30!!! 30!!! I don’t know how she will have a boyfriend. A husband. A child. How she will adapt to the new type of cars, or maybe job. I don’t understand being so thick, just because it is technology, which requires a little adaptation.