I see it as a fair deal. They paid my absurdly high phone bill as I fell for dial up scammers in my youth while experimentating with fresh new internet, and so I abandon all hope of lazy free time and help them with their unresponding printer now.
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random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You don’t need to be in IT, you just need boomer parents.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fun thing is,… the cycle repeats.
~20% of Boomers had good working knowledge of the technologies of their age, similar to today.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ill never lose touch with tech. Except fucking ticktock. Or temu. Or that other one.
Uglyhead@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve had people close to me say the same thing.
A person who knew thoroughly how to install software and get computers up and running in the 80’s and 90’s, now had no interest at all in learning how to use a cellphone. Cognitive decline inevitably started happening at age 40 or so and it made it more and more difficult to understand the new tech.
Similar thing happens with music, and keeping up to date with new artists and so forth. As you get older I guess you just start to not give a shit as much at all about the newfangled jibjabs and doohickeys.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If the day comes that you have deal with your personal matters or bank business through those services, I’ll put a bullet through my brain.
dingus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Idk. I’m not in IT, but I’ve always seemed to have a tendency to try to troubleshoot tech problems.
I help out my coworkers, parents, and even my younger sibling on occasion (he’s in his early 20s). If it’s solely an age thing, then you’d think I wouldn’t be doing it with those similar to my own age or younger than me.
_lilith@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah no. Most of em just decided they don’t have to learn anything anymore and have this learned helplessness with technology. I have seen 70 year olds trouble shoot a computer like champions but a dude in his 50’s just “isn’t good with computers” and can’t change the font size in word without his hand held