• Balaquina@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m real proud of my mom actually. She couldn’t even navigate the desktop when she started, but she has turned into a real techie. I used to have to do everything for her, but these days if she has a problem she looks up solutions online and is usually able to sort things out herself. She’s 79. The only “old person” thing she still does is store files on her desktop and also keep a billion tabs open on her web browser lol.

  • Kalysta@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Trying to teach my dad to double click.

    Click twice really fast kept translating to two slow clicks. Took 2 hours of showing him how to do it.

    • Agent641@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Sometimes I worry they are being purposely dense because they want to spend more time with us.

      • Sk3rgi0@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ouch. That hit me hard bro. I was the computer geek for my fam and felt this way as well. This was commadore 64 years. Now I wish my son would call me.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Helping my octogenarian mom with her iPhone is the most painful experience. She often calls me about something that has “popped up” in some app that she’s using. I tell her to just close it and she says “how?” I then say something like “just click the OK button … or the Done or Close buttons, that will be some unknown color … or click the X in the upper right or maybe the upper left corner … or click “Done” or “Close” in the toolbar, on the left or right sides … or maybe the thing has slid up from the bottom and you need to swipe down to get rid of it … or maybe you need to click the Home tab on the app’s bottom bar.”

    I’ve actually been an iOS mobile developer for 15 years now. Anybody who thinks there’s any sort of consistent, intuitive design principles behind Apple products is insane.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      At least it’s the same type of phone you use. My mom has a cheap android phone, with all sorts of crap and limitations from the provider. I guess it’s cheap, but sometimes it’s just not worth it. Anyhow, I haven’t used an Android phone in at least ten years, have no idea about all the crap on hers, and she doesn’t have the vocabulary to describe what she sees or does, but I’m supposed to help over the phone?

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    My parents: “You’re a nerd, can you help with our computer?”

    I reluctantly overlook how insulting they always are and help

    Many months later

    My parents: “Our computer isn’t working right lately. It’s probably your fault from the last time you were messing with it.”

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 days ago

    printers man. it’s always some bullshit about how the printer doesn’t work anymore, no wifi, no ink, it’s printing some random HP bullshit Instead of what they want

    call me an asshole but I told my parents I would strictly not help them with printer stuff anymore

    they would also make me scan like 40+ pages back and forth. I hate scanning as well which is part of the agreement I made with them. they need to scan 49 pages ? ok then go to the library they probably have machine where you can dump a stack and have it scanned

    if you’re wondering about the frequency and volume of scanning the reason why is because I come from an ass backwards country that does not do e documents

      • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 days ago

        that’s a first I’ve heard for Germany, wrong guess but at least the Germans share my pain

        • SpongyAneurism@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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          2 days ago

          It’s a bit of an overstatement, sure. But our administration is kinda notorious for being very slow adapting to the digital world.

          It’s slowly improving lately, but there’s still a lot of stuff that’s excruiatingly analog and a lot of actual paperwork required by law.

          It was kinda big news when some government agencies abandoned fax machines last year.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    the fact that my grandmother absolutely, hard ass refuses to do anything that would improve her situation. Just bitches and moans and has great big narcissistic pity parties until someone forces it down her fucking throat.

    For example, her vision isnt great, she complaints its hard to use the computer cause she cant see to type (Shes one of those chicken peck typers). I tell her to get a large print keyboard with a backlight, it’d be easier for her to see and use.

    She says no, it wont help. nothing will help. boo hoo pity me blah blah bullshit.

    Long story short, it goes back and forth for a month, with her refusing the idea, refusing when I directly link her to a keyboard to buy (it was cheap, too), etc etc. Just making a big fucking woe is me pity party out of it.

    I finally say fuck it, buy the goddamn keyboard myself, take it over to her house, put it on her computer.

    within 5 minutes “Why didnt you tell me about this before? Its amazing! I can see it and use the computer again!”

    Shes the reason i’ve been balding for 20 years.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        5 days ago

        The difference between borderline and narcissism is fairly small. They are both cluster b because the symptoms overlap. It sounds more like histrionic, another cluster b disorder. The diagnosis itself means very little unless the person is seeking treatment.