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My mother is the same in that she refuses to even try learning it. She stopped being able to turn on the TV when they upgraded to an AV system, meaning you have to use the unified remote to turn on the TV and audio - though still with one button.
She still asks my dad to do it, and every time I try to show her she just gets in a mood about how hard he made it.
Now imagine when she calls me for help with facebook or online banking. I don't think we've ever solved it without someone just doing it for her in the end. I can set up a kubernetes cluster but I can't tell you how to log in without your password. If I show you the secret button for it I'll lose my job. -
@Flygger but you actually learned to use a spoon. They refuse to, and want to be spoon-fed forever.
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can relate sooooooo much to it😪
I'm the only tech guy in the family and have almost finished my bachelor degree.
I'm the first contact for problems.😅 They're all disappointed and question my degree when I can't help them. Of course in the most specific scenarios possible.🙄😅
... and all I do is google their problem for them.😅🤷 -
@Flygger That's a valid argument there
I totally agree with you on that side
Customer: ... and can you also disable right-click to prevent our website's content from being copied?
Me:
So, I'm living in a completely computer illiterate family and I was called to help my father with something on a Laptop where he wanted to stream his favorite Soccer-Club.
So I walk up to him, ask what's wrong, and he says (roughly translated from German) "That thing doesn't work!"
And I'm just like ((Wat u mean))
So I ask him to explain the problem in detail.
Apparently his streaming service wasn't loading his stream.
Well damn I say, try searching for the problem on Google and find a solution.
((But no no no imma just call my son for everything that's freaking wrong with tech, he sure knows what to do))
As I'm not that experienced with Webservices as of yet, I had no idea what to do.
He was fucking furious!
"You always act like you know everything about tech and programs and stuff and can't even help me with fixing this Stream-Thing?!"
I responded simply by saying "It's not my area of work!"
Seems like he didn't know the difference between TECH-JESUS and hobbyist software engineer.
So I stand there and he just goes on one of these typical boomer tech illiterate rants, of which I'm sure you can imagine enough being on this platform.
tl;Dr; It pisses me of big time how people are not even trying to understand technology, nor attempting to help themselves by eG. Googling some simple problem, but rather just ask around and then being pissed off if the asked person just doesn't know the answer or can't help!
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