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Fuyune
7y

I really love my mother but.

A couple of weeks ago she asked me for advice regarding a laptop. She wanted something cheap for office and stuff.
Since I know her I exactly knows she needs extreme fast boot and responsiveness. She'll go all hulk rage if the laptop doesn't boot in less than 30 seconds.

Told her to get something with ssd since storage is no issue and 4gb ram with an decent older I5. Took a whole day going through stores in my area and online to find good deals. Send her everything I found. Really good laptop for under 500€ I would've killed for.

Fast forward. She bought some 300€ shit laptop because it had 1tb memory. She didn't ask for advice just bought the cheapest that would read decently description wise.

Now she is raging all day and bitching about it being so slow and I should fix it for her since I'm an it guy etc.

Looking at the specs I nearly started to vomit. She seriously bought a laptop worse than she already had. Old i3 2gb ram 5200rpm HDD.

I told her she should return it because it is shit. But no. She insists that since it's newer it is better and I am only a lazy fuck who doesn't want to be bothered to do her a favor.

Offered the best thing I could think of. Told her I'd install Linux on it for her and teach her how to use it.
Explained it would run more smoothly since she refused to take that shit laptop back. But no. Of course she insists on using windows 10....

FUUUUUUUCK. I love my mother but seriously I'm about to explode.

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  • 2
    Parents are often reluctant to admit that their child is better at tech than they are, especially prior to college. Yet at the same time, we're the tech guy who people always go to for problems. I enjoy finding solutions to these problems, but when people don't accept them, it gets really annoying.
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    @DylanG yeah so true. I'd happily take a day or two time to help her get along with her tech. But once they start to refuse any help and expect some miracles it starts to get really annoying
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    I don't help people that arnt willing to help themselves no matter who they are
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    Can relate to way to much to this crapp....
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    My dad did this same thing. I asked him: did you get an ssd drive then? He says oh idk but it is 2TB - doesn't seem much faster though.

    Why do they even make computers without ssd drives?
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