[AT] Remembering--Now Facebook and OFF TOPIC

Dave Rotigel rotigel at me.com
Mon Mar 2 18:32:01 PST 2015


Anyone who uses any power they have as if they are God should be mistrusted! 
	Dave


On Mar 2, 2015, at 9:11 PM, David Bruce wrote:

> I have been a FB user for a couple years now. I started as a way to keep 
> up with far flung family and friends. I have used computers with Win XP, 
> Win 7 (I refuse to use Win 8) and Ubuntu Linux. That doesn't seem to 
> increased my malware loading.
> 
> Of late I have been functioning as an ADMIN (read as an adult) for one 
> FB group. If things get off track I can use my "power of God" and remove 
> the offending comments (or the user as well).
> 
> Like many things in life there is both good and bad. I try to avoid the bad.
> 
> David
> NW NC
> 
> On 3/2/2015 2:56 PM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>> I don't have any of those problems... but then I don't click on just
>> anything.
>> Folks that play a lot of Facebook games seem to have a lot of problems.
>> I have been running Google Chromium for some time with no problems. That is
>> the Linux version of Chrome. I also run the Ad Blocker Plus. I used to run
>> Firefox and still do for a few things where I like the way it renders some
>> sites better but Chromium runs a lot faster for me.
>> I have been playing with another one called Slim-boat which seem decent (I
>> don't recall if it is Linux only or not).
>> I have been running Linux for years now and will never go back to windows.
>> Never... My old wide-screen laptop had a hinge breaking so I bought this
>> one so I would have it in the hospital with me in November 2013. Silly me,
>> I thought I would be able to function mentally after the surgery.
>> :-)
>> It came with Windows 8 on it and the third time it crashed it lost a good
>> sized picture file I was working with. I hated the way it worked anyway so
>> as soon as I could function I cleaned it out and installed Ubuntu on it.
>> It's not for everybody but I like it (me and Sheldon Cooper).
>> :-)
>> I follow a few old tractor groups on Facebook and one thing I do like about
>> it is the way it is so easy to display pictures. Some forums (using the
>> Shopsmith Forum as an example) have a picture size limit so if I want to
>> post a picture most of the time I have to re-size the picture before
>> uploading it. I usually use:
>> http://www.resizemypicture.com/
>> On a Facebook group you just upload about anything and it is re-sized as it
>> is posted.
>> Most of the time the groups don't have all of the drama and crap because
>> there somebody is usually "in charge" unlike the almost free-for-all
>> regular status feed.
>> I may not be fully productive yet but I can follow groups...
>> :-)
>> One downside to those groups is that they seem to post a lot of nice
>> pictures but often with only four word descriptions, not many stories,
>> "here is my tractor" type of thing.
>>  :-)
> 
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