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Met a nice lady at the grocery store (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today at the grocery store a sweet older lady approached me and asked if I knew anything about computers. I said yes I do, and she produced a mouse saying that her son set up Linux mint for her and she was wondering if the mouse was compatible. It needed kernel version 2.6 or newer so I said that the mouse should work, guessing mint itself was probably newer than that kernel. Happy with my answer, we chatted a little, then she thanked me and left.

It was a nice experience, so I thought I should share!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t get why she would take her mouse to the grocery store rather than just ask her son, who installed it for her. All I could guess would be, her old mouse didn’t work so she went out and bought one?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm assuming OP meant a store like Target or Walmart that have groceries and also a tech section

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's a bigger store where the bottom floor is groceries and the top is more of a department store with a few shelves of computer and phone stuff, among other things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Changing the setting from a grocery isle to an electronics department makes for a completely different story. Goes from "yeah, sure, that happened" to "perfectly credible encounter."