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🗓️ 9 March 2017
⏱️ 116 minutes
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0:00.0 | Not only do my kids not know how to use computers, but they all because they don't know how to use computers |
0:06.7 | They don't know how to fix things on computers like they don't even have they've never had to fix anything on a computer |
0:13.5 | It's like how do you learn how to fix crap on computers like because when we were kids |
0:17.2 | I probably didn't know anything so there was no one to ask and you had to just figure it out yourself |
0:21.0 | Yeah, we should have broke everything and figured out how to fix it |
0:24.0 | That's basically how we figured this all out |
0:26.7 | My son had a problem recently where he was like dad the computer only types capital letters |
0:32.6 | And so I came over and he was like in a Google document and he's like look capital letters |
0:37.3 | And it's not caps lock because cap lock light are on or off either way just produces capital letters, right? |
0:42.4 | And he was that was it. That was the extent of his debugging like he had he knew cap locks existed and he had tried |
0:48.3 | Toggling on an off and he confirmed that in one position light is on one position light is off |
0:52.0 | But either way tap the letters come up, but that was it. He was out of ideas |
0:55.1 | Hmm, and that's not that's not good. What was it like a stuck shift key? |
0:58.9 | So I tried another application, which is the first thing you try is this just Google docs or the browser |
1:03.3 | Or is it ever so been texted it sure enough only capital letters and text that it right so I'm like |
1:09.1 | Like the things you learned from a lifetime of debugging or things that could potentially solve this problem, you know, so log out right |
1:15.9 | We go to log out or you know switch users to master troubleshooting step turn everything off turn everything back off |
1:22.3 | And the login screen went to log into my account and when you see the little password thing |
1:25.9 | You see the little arrow that tells you that things cap locks is on, you know, yep that puts them right and so basically it was like the computer thought |
1:31.5 | Caps lock was on all the time it wasn't you could look at the keyboard and it doesn't matter the light was on or off |
1:35.4 | But the computer was totally convinced the cap locks on or off so I unplug the keyboard and plugged back in and I fixed it and my son said to me |
1:42.5 | Why how could unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in fix it? |
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