Recently, an old friend asked me to help update his Intel Mac mini\u2014he had forgotten the password, and I thought, \u201cNo problem lah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But after a long break from doing anything technical or command-line related, I realized I was rusty. Siao Liao !!!<\/strong> So I decided to relearn everything<\/em>\u2014practised all the terminal commands, read up, simulated scenarios\u2026 I basically trained like I was prepping for a hacker movie role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then came the actual day. Instead, I had to think on my feet and rely on what I learned from past experience. The solution came from instinct and memory, not the prep work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moral of the story:<\/strong> Just be yourself\u2014especially in front of old friends. There\u2019s nothing to prove, and nothing to lose face over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes your past experience already has your back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, an old friend asked me to help update his Intel Mac mini\u2014he had forgotten the password, and I thought, \u201cNo problem lah.\u201d But after a long break from doing anything technical or command-line related, I realized I was rusty. Siao Liao !!! So I decided to relearn everything\u2014practised all the terminal commands, read up, … Continue reading “When an Old Friend Asks for Tech Help\u2026 and You Try Not to Lose Face”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.orbit9.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
All that practice?
Didn\u2019t use a single command I prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n