• foggy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Yes. My dad’s 74. I have no questions that hell have no problems.

    My mom’s 71. Her last machine is a Chromebook because she asked me if there was a budget laptop she could get to just go on Facebook. She had no issues there.

    “Hey pop, when you turn it on, it looks different until you get here. Just click chrome, you know chrome. Ok you’re good. If you need word, just click the search icon and type ‘word’.”

    Also, if your dad is actually on the internet on Windows XP, you’ve failed already… Your inheritance is already stolen if it has any connection to the internet through that machine. Best of luck 🫡

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      6 months ago

      Also, I just wanted you to know I’m not the one who downvoted you. Someone, (I suspect a bot) is downvoting everyone on here, exactly once.

      When I get a comment thats 3 upvotes and 14 downvotes, I say “Oh. THAT comment wasn’t popular.” But when I see ever comment of mine is 8 upvotes, 1 downvote. 3 upvotes, 1 downvote. 62 upvotes, 1 downvote.

      When I see that, on almost every comment I make, it gets me irrationally angry, because I know the downvote isn’t someone joking. The downvotes aren’t someone actually disagreeing. Its just someone who enjoys spreading negativity. THAT makes me mad.

      And in situations like this where I reply a disagreement, it’s easy to think the only downvote is from the guy who disagreed. Unfortunately, thats not the case.

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      6 months ago

      Oh, there was no inheritance coming. He lives in a rat infested house because he refuses to let us help, and rehome him.

      But I will go over, and he’ll have 104 internet explorer’s running. 90% of them all pointing at either the food network, or baseball websites. Instead of clicking the row of app buttons on the bottom to bring up his page that already exists and refresh it, he’ll open another internet explorer and go to the page again.

      Then complains that his computer freezes.