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I'm afraid I couldn't read it the first time. It lost me after one rambling sentence! I said I cannot follow TV soap operas either!

Information is not explanation.

Of course "the friend" has the skills and the equipment to do one. He can type "tar czvlpfmnt-backup.tgz " just as fast as he can type "echo hello there". I fail to see why backing up is somehow "difficult"!

Anyway, I got no particular impression from at least the beginning of his story that he was talking about anyone other than himself, phrased in the hypothetical.

It was a story. I know it was a story because I cannot follow stories, and whatever that long paragraph was about lost me after just a single sentence!

Indeed. They are just descriptions of a sequence of events, without analysis. As such they are senseless - one has to add sense and analysis to make them into comprehensible acconts. I can't "follow" collection of meaningless events in any sense! It'll just load my stack with the first few meaningless events and then I'll give up as sense fails to materialize.

If you mean that I don't know who you are that's right! I don't follow stories. I don't look at (or believe, or remember) the name on a piece of text.

There is nothing "advanced" about backing up.

Nor is any extra equipment required.

Then they are stuck, because they are about to go on a coast-to-coast drive, and they have DEMANDED that "nothing go wrong".

No, do you?

Because I can reason.

Which makes it completely unreliable, by the evidence.

I have no interest in who you are or who I am replying to. But the "you" above looks a generic you to me. It is not directed at you.

Why? If he asks to travel coast to coast without checking the oil and demands that nothing go wrong, then I certainly do know mre about the situation than him.

You don't need a can-opener, you just need to make two holes. Hit it with a nail.

???

What?

Peter