Considering the sliding scale of age groups and the ‘generations’ (and micro-gens which I still contest are NOT really a ‘thing’) that everyone’s so hopped up about, these types of jokes and references are kinda living on borrowed time.
Funny, yes, but less and less realistic (at least regarding grandparents and their ages) every year.
I wouldn’t be too sure. The grandkids of today will someday be grandparents themselves. Who’s going to help them when they can’t quite figure out what’s wrongs with their holographic zoomotron?
My father had a computer where the power supply was replaced. This ended up with the computer having one power button on the front and one on the back. When I came over, I found the second power button and showed it to him. By the way, both of us had Ph.D. degrees in engineering.
In another case, I was at a convention, and the speaker (another Ph.D. in engineering) couldn’t get the remote for the video projector to work. Since I had been the one who had put it together earlier in the morning. He waved me off, saying he could deal with it. After a minute, I ran out of patience and yelled “Aim the remote at the front of the projector”, followed by “it works” a second or two later. I started to describe the situation to my brother in law, who also worked with computers. Before I could finish the story, he said that sounds like Dr. X. Dr. X of course wasn’t the real name, but I don’t want to embarass the person involved and his horde of fans.
Gods I wish this was an unrealistic tech support call. But I just visited my Uncle Dick yesterday and he would absolutely be this.
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BTDT and I’m a 62yr old mechanic who’s also the base goto IT for the company.
This isn’t the 2000’s anymore. People can’t be this bad at using computers. Please tell me they can’t. I don’t have much faith left in humanity.
Yes they can and that is one of the reasons I have total faith in humanity and it’s ability to eff up anything.
Considering the sliding scale of age groups and the ‘generations’ (and micro-gens which I still contest are NOT really a ‘thing’) that everyone’s so hopped up about, these types of jokes and references are kinda living on borrowed time.
Funny, yes, but less and less realistic (at least regarding grandparents and their ages) every year.
I wouldn’t be too sure. The grandkids of today will someday be grandparents themselves. Who’s going to help them when they can’t quite figure out what’s wrongs with their holographic zoomotron?
Pretty impressive multi-tasking by Finch.
I mean yeah my mother struggles with tech too but c’mon now even she knows what a power button is. No one’s that oblivious.
Wow! That made me flash back to my time worksing in a PC integrator company.
My father had a computer where the power supply was replaced. This ended up with the computer having one power button on the front and one on the back. When I came over, I found the second power button and showed it to him. By the way, both of us had Ph.D. degrees in engineering.
In another case, I was at a convention, and the speaker (another Ph.D. in engineering) couldn’t get the remote for the video projector to work. Since I had been the one who had put it together earlier in the morning. He waved me off, saying he could deal with it. After a minute, I ran out of patience and yelled “Aim the remote at the front of the projector”, followed by “it works” a second or two later. I started to describe the situation to my brother in law, who also worked with computers. Before I could finish the story, he said that sounds like Dr. X. Dr. X of course wasn’t the real name, but I don’t want to embarass the person involved and his horde of fans.