Re: [lubuntu-users] which personality disorder would say it best?

[Ralf Mardorf]

Consider to compare the issue with a broken toe. You know that something
is wrong with a foot, but you don't know what. You need to check the
foot, to find out that a toe is broken. Once you know that a toe is
broken, you can do something very pragmatic. Repairing software and
hardware issues is even more direct, then supporting measures for
self-recovery of the toe. However, comparing it with mentally illness
doesn't fit. You can't find out what is wrong by a psychotherapy, nor
can you fix the issue by a psychotherapy. This even doesn't work to
fix issues with AI. At best you could compare it with a broken toe,
but even better is an analogy to a car that has got an issue. You need
to search for the reason of the issue, then you can repair it. It's
possible to replace a broken axle by a new one. IOW it's less
complicated than what needs to be done to cure a broken toe.

What you need to do is structured troubleshooting to find the culprit.
Once you know the culprit, you can try to get rid of the issue. No
medicine is needed, no psychotherapy is needed. Sometimes a user can't
fix an issue, then a bug report or feature request against upstream
might be needed or help by a repair shop could be required.

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[lubuntu-users] which personality disorder would say it best?

[Fritz Hudnut]

@Ralf:


> On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 07:48:39 -0700, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> >it might be akin to a "multiple personality disorder.
>
> No, it's not nearly similar! Keep in mind that you are controlling the
> operating systems and that the operating systems not randomly switch
> from one to another during usage.
>
> There is one possible exception, that is similar to such a human
> disorder. A boot manager could boot into the root directory of one
> install, while booting the kernel of another install. This might cause
> no {,noticeable} issue at all or could be catastrophic.
>
> My apologies for the unusual term, "boot manager", it should read
> "bootloader".
>
> My apologies for the bashism, but hey, it's the default login shell for
> almost all Linux distros.
>

 Point taken on the "it's not multiple personality disorder," it may or may
not be an interaction of the various "personalities" involved, unless we
were checking which kernel was driving which system . . . it's hard to
"rule out" as one of the personalities may have been over-riding the other
personalities, and perhaps causing a Munchhausen situation.  But, since it
was more like the machine was "unresponsive" to key stroke and would only
boot into one system, then perhaps that was more like "Dissociative
Disorder"  ??  Or, maybe just "Cognitive Dissonance Disorder" . . . unable
to make clear cognition due to System Dissonance Signals interfering in
bootloader decision-making???  So many options that could have been
involved, maybe it was MPD-like syndrome, rather than full blown "Disorder"
. . . .

F


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