Philosophy about computars:
Problems always seem to be clear in hindsight, diagnosis is logical, you can always go from step a to b to c etc. Nothing about them is mysterious, except quantum computers, which is why how some people react emotionally to machine failure always makes me confused. The simple clarity that should exist though is always complicated by the fact they are designed and documented by people. For example, giving everything a cryptic abbreviation, or hiding features that DEPEND on each other in illogical places. Then not writing anything down about what you did because "it is so obvious."
Then when that machine fails it does feel like the end of the world. You never seem to remember uninstalling and reinstalling windows multiple times because the registry got corrupted, except when you are doing it. Then time slows down. 10 hours later when you finally find some obscure setting which links the entire chain of events together it SEEMS easy, because that is what you remember. Not turning off every service 1 by 1 and rebooting 60 times in one hour.
-.- and that is why linux will never be adopted by mainstream consumers.
I'm writing emails. I never thought I'd have to do that, email used to be SO LAME. Now I answer 30-40 of them a day.