…trying to teach 73 and 86 year old parents to use a new computer.
“Why can’t it just be like the old one?”
“BECAUSE THINGS CHANGE OVER 14 YEARS!!!”
Just kill me.
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When I changed out my mom’s computer for a new all-in–one, she insisted on using her old keyboard because she was “used to it and liked it better”. The new keyboard that came with the new computer is collecting dust somewhere. 
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Pardon me, 12 years. It’s an original Polycarbonate iMac from 2006.
They aren’t liking Windows, but I wasn’t dropping 2 grand on a new PC that is only used for Facebook.
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I know you’re not happy but I think it’s sweet that you’re helping them.
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That sounds like an opportunity for hilarity. Teaching old folks to use a computer. Laugh with them.
Hell disorder…
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What if devil had schizophrenia and god had bipolar …what do Hercules has then ?
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Why don’t they want to use the new computer?
@anon82948922
Hercules has a huge… club.
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Because it’s DIFFERENT.
Mrs. Pixel’s mom is annoyed with me for taking her old TV to the dump yesterday. It hasn’t worked for 20 years and they’ve been using an even crappier TV instead and just piling pictures and decorations on the old unit. She doesn’t understand why I didn’t just fix it “because it had a perfectly good picture”. Uh, it was a Philco from 1972 and it didn’t even have a co-axial input, that’s why. We gave them a 50 inch television for their 50th anniversary and they’re grumping about that, too.
Not for me. The less we have to do with each other, the better.
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If you think that’s bad, I once had a 40 hour per week job supporting genealogy software. Can you imagine trying to explain to people in their seventies how to use and install software packages on their computers all week?
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You can see their old living room setup here:
What it looked like when we left:
Much better.
I didn’t have enough time to entirely get rid of the wire soup behind the old shelving, but it’s less horrible than it was. I’ll fix it on the next visit. They’re just blown away to actually be able to read what’s on the screen. Oh, and closed captioning, they’ve loving that. And Netflix (we added a screen to our account for them).
You have my deepest sympathies as that’s a bad combination. The main audience for that product is a demographic that probably shouldn’t be using it.
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