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[cadiastands]

[Did it take Mira like 20 minutes to enter a username because she expected the system to assign her one and then froze up in fear of doing it wrong when she had to choose it herself? Maybe.]

If someone is qualified to teach me the proper rituals for the use of these devices, I would appreciate it.

[tl;dr Mira, despite being from a space empire in the 401st century, thinks there are animist spirits inside her phone and terminal that will get mad and refuse to work if she does the wrong thing.]

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text; un: aleifr

[aleifr]

[She'll get a response from the last person she probably expects to get one from.]

Not too hard, actually.

[cadiastands]

[She doesn't expect it, but it makes sense. Aleifr didn't have the Mechanicus fucking up his understanding of technology from infancy.]

That's good to hear.

[aleifr]

[Correct. Though there was the hurdle of him not HAVING an understanding of technology to climb.]

Mostly comes down to pushing the right buttons, really. Doesn't seem to be much more to it than that. Far as Misty tells it, all you have to do is keep it charged and not do anything that might give it a virus.

[Though how the fuck a phone gets sick is beyond him.]

[cadiastands]

Machine spirits can't get diseases.

[Are you sure this Misty knows what she's talking about?]

[aleifr]

Apparently they get sick if you do things with them that they're not supposed to.

[She probably does. Aleifr is working at about 35% here, being generous.]

[cadiastands]

They're not ill. They're just upset with you.

[This is definitely how technology works. Take notes, everybody.]

[aleifr]

In any case, it'd get slow and stop working if you go to the wrong 'sites'.

[cadiastands]

If there are places in the city where technology will stop working, there ought to be a map of them somewhere.

[aleifr]

That's what I thought.

[Just makes good sense.]

They're not literal places, though. There's this thing on the phone called a browser. You can look things up on it, and it tells you what you want to know. All it's knowledge is organized by 'sites', like acts in a story. Some of the sites are bad, and you need to steer clear of them.

[cadiastands]

["Browser" she sort of gets by the same process of analogy that led to the term being used for web-surfing in the first place, and she's familiar with the concept of digitized repositories of information...but she immediately heads in the wrong direction with that knowledge.]

Restricted files shouldn't just be left lying about like that.

[Mira's a little fuzzy on how data storage and non-totalitarian governments work.]

[aleifr]

Don't know if it's restricted. Just think they don't like it.

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[skyward_eyes]

I don't know that there are?

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[helpdesk_hero]

Are you in the dorms? If so, which room. I'm a computer expert. I can teach you all you need to know.

[cadiastands]

If they're being THAT finicky, usually you can just hit them on the table or a rock.

[RIP Mira's phone one of these days, I guess.]

[cadiastands]

I'd settle for a field manual.

[skyward_eyes]

Well the dualnet should have that!

[aleifr]

You're worried about pissing off the machine spirit, but your solution is to whack it on a rock.

[Seems counterproductive.]

[cadiastands]

[It's almost like everything the Mechanicus believes is absolute bullshit.]

I'm not a tech-priest. I don't know why it works.

[aleifr]

[Imagine that?]

It shouldn't. I'm not a machine spirit, but if someone tries to hit me with a fucking rock, I don't want to help them.

[cadiastands]

[Out of reflexive caution, Mira hesitates before giving her room number, but it's not like it's hard to come by information.

Not that David can tell, given how slowly she types in general.]

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Meaning no offense, but you are not who I would have picked out for a tech-priest.

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[yondu]

I could. There aren't any rituals besides pressing the right pictures, though. Depending on whether you're being serious or joking about that word choice in particular.

[Yondu doesn't know. He's from a world where science and magic are a thing in combination.]

[helpdesk_hero]

Oh, you can pick that information out by text alone? We don't worship technology where I'm from. Well, some people do. But I can take apart, rewire, and restore this stuff. I can teach you what you need to know.

[cadiastands]

Your user name is "NotTechSupport."

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[helpdesk_hero]

I spend all day working Tech Support. I don't like being it for random people online most of the time.

[cadiastands]

I'm no Lexmechanic.

[Whatever the hell that is.]