One thing I absolutely do not miss whatsoever about Windows is navigating those chm files when you click help.
You have selected “Livin’ The Dream”
2 uses remaining for this month.
it’s what it’s
Hi, no one!
👋😄
We all know the help button only leads you to a useless Microsoft help page that may or may not be horrendously outdated or even not existent anymore
Or a Microsoft Answers page where the advice is always and eternally to run sfc /scannow, regardless of what the actual problem is
It is Windows 95.
Anytime someone pulls that phrase on me, I look and them and slowly say, “You’re right. It definitely is, what it is.” Then they have the look of realization on how much of a filler thing that is to say.
A variation is, “It certainly isn’t what it isn’t”.
It’s shorthand for “shits fucked but there’s not much I can do about it from here, so I just continue to exist in spite of everything”
It certainly isn’t what it isn’t!
You just gotta accept that people are going to say thought-terminating cliches to you. You only live once, man, and you gotta do what you gotta do. Que sera sera.
The problem with thought terminating cliches like “it is what is is”, is that it promotes lazy thinking.
You may as well say "I’ve encountered another problem which I’m not going to attempt to resolve. "
Let’s agree to disagree
Presuming you were trying to illustrate a point, well done. Otherwise yes we do disagree.
Can’t win 'em all!
nah. it’s more akin to “I have nothing (else) to say or do” doesn’t mean there was no attempt.
I didn’t say there was no attempt.
Saying you have nothing else to say or do is “thought terminating” you’re stifling discussion rather than encouraging investigation of potential solutions.
Most especially, literally, at the end of the day!
