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  Parents are Dumb and Kids Don't Know Anything About Computers Anymore Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-30 21:20 +0000
    Re: Parents are Dumb and Kids Don't Know Anything About Computers Anymore Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-01-31 10:47 +0000
      Re: Parents are Dumb and Kids Don't Know Anything About Computers Anymore Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-31 13:57 +0000

#10214 — Parents are Dumb and Kids Don't Know Anything About Computers Anymore

https://medium.com/@seibelj/parents-are-dumb-and-kids-don-t-know-anything-about-computers-anymore-b59e974d052c#.krbf5ep2r

Quoting from the URL above:

   When I was 2 years old in 1990, my parents purchased a PC from a
   long-defunct local computer repair shop. It came with DOS. I didn't give
   a shit about it at first, but once I realized it could play games, I was
   enamored.

   But installing a game was difficult! My father could barely figure it
   out, and usually had someone come over to do it. Everything was a series
   of floppy disks and strange commands, and usually some error popped up
   and you had to try again.

   Eventually Windows 3.1 was released and purchased, and our computer
   wasn't purely a command line anymore.

   To use this beast, you had to understand files, folders, memory, hard
   disk, fancy commands, and so on. Then you could play your games.

   Later, when we got a 56K modem and learned about Direct Connect and
   Usenet, we had to learn all about file sharing and piracy. You had to
   use weird file formats, strange tools, and cross your fingers and pray
   you didn't brick your whole OS with viruses. And if you did, it was an
   all-weekend quest of searching online for how to fix it. And search
   engines were terrible! And the internet was super slow! It was fun!

   Nowadays, parents think their kids are computer experts because they can
   install shit on an iPad. Clicking "Install" and watching a bar go across
   the screen passes for expertise in the average household.

   ...

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#10216

On 30/01/16 21:20, Rich wrote:
> https://medium.com/@seibelj/parents-are-dumb-and-kids-don-t-know-anything-about-computers-anymore-b59e974d052c#.krbf5ep2r
>
> Quoting from the URL above:
>
>     When I was 2 years old in 1990, my parents purchased a PC from a
>     long-defunct local computer repair shop. It came with DOS. I didn't give
>     a shit about it at first, but once I realized it could play games, I was
>     enamored.
>
>     But installing a game was difficult! My father could barely figure it
>     out, and usually had someone come over to do it. Everything was a series
>     of floppy disks and strange commands, and usually some error popped up
>     and you had to try again.
>
>     Eventually Windows 3.1 was released and purchased, and our computer
>     wasn't purely a command line anymore.
>
>     To use this beast, you had to understand files, folders, memory, hard
>     disk, fancy commands, and so on. Then you could play your games.
>
>     Later, when we got a 56K modem and learned about Direct Connect and
>     Usenet, we had to learn all about file sharing and piracy. You had to
>     use weird file formats, strange tools, and cross your fingers and pray
>     you didn't brick your whole OS with viruses. And if you did, it was an
>     all-weekend quest of searching online for how to fix it. And search
>     engines were terrible! And the internet was super slow! It was fun!
>
>     Nowadays, parents think their kids are computer experts because they can
>     install shit on an iPad. Clicking "Install" and watching a bar go across
>     the screen passes for expertise in the average household.
>

Agree. However some levels of computer support inside corporate 
companies are just as bad. Sometimes escalation doesn't happen, or it 
goes to the wrong people.

1. application giving problems? just run setup.exe
2. don't understand a blue screen? backup data and run setup.exe
3. driver not found for hardware? find a random from google and run 
setup.exe
4. machine locks up during use? send it in for warranty repair, must be 
the hardware....
5. https://i.imgur.com/96hPj.png


-- 
Adrian C

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#10220

Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> wrote:
j> On 30/01/16 21:20, Rich wrote:
> > https://medium.com/@seibelj/parents-are-dumb-and-kids-don-t-know-anything-about-computers-anymore-b59e974d052c#.krbf5ep2r
> >
> > Quoting from the URL above:
> >
> >     ...
> >
> >     But installing a game was difficult! My father could barely
> >     figure it out, and usually had someone come over to do it.
> >     Everything was a series of floppy disks and strange commands,
> >     and usually some error popped up and you had to try again.
> >
> >     ...
> >
> >     To use this beast, you had to understand files, folders,
> >     memory, hard disk, fancy commands, and so on. Then you could
> >     play your games.

> Agree. However some levels of computer support inside corporate
> companies are just as bad. Sometimes escalation doesn't happen, or it
> goes to the wrong people.

> 1. application giving problems? just run setup.exe
> 2. don't understand a blue screen? backup data and run setup.exe
> 3. driver not found for hardware? find a random from google and run 
> setup.exe
> 4. machine locks up during use? send it in for warranty repair, must be 
> the hardware....
> 5. https://i.imgur.com/96hPj.png

You forgot the #1 most common 'help desk' response in the
corporate/govt. environment:

0. Reboot - see if it seems to go away.

Which, sadly, given the poor design of windows, does actually fix far
too many of the issues.

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