>ANON YOUR GAMES PUT A VIRUS ON THE COMPUTER
>>739030617don't worry, dad>*deletes desktop shortcut*
I remember reading an article about how your more likely to get a virus from religious websites than porn sites or sites that host rom's
>>739030617But how do you know my torrents on that dodgy Russian site gave us all that malware?
My parents thought me using an ethernet cable from our modem to my Wii gave our pc a virus, but the actual reason was because my dad was a porn addict who kept browsing shady websites and he used me as a scapegoat.
>>739030617>meme never made any sense as it implies boomers know what a virus iskek
>>739030617How do you know it was me?
As a teenager I once got a virus that popped up these retarded messages about how my pastor will find out about my porn habits. I'm European, we don't have some judgemental priest seething at us all and hoping to find porn on our computers. What the fuck, America.
>>739030835My parents are boomers and knew what viruses were when I was a kid in the late nineties and early 2000s. They were constantly afraid of viruses because computers were so damn vulnerable back then.
My parents thought if you had wifi, you could use your connection from anywhere in the world.
>>739030617Me in 2002 after I downloaded "Super Mario World" from Kazaa.
>Install virus>It's actually a game
Why are there so many stories about parents refusing to understand technology? It's like having kids flips some kind of switch in their head to be stubborn.
>men in their 30s and 40s still angstily relitigating things until that their parents did in the 90s and 00s>many of these parents are probably dead nowthis thread was funnier the first time in it I reckon>>739030835it happened thousands or perhaps millions of times, I'd say congratulations on outing yourself as a zoomer but even that phrase stopped being a dig ten years ago now
>MOOOM, MY DAD'S PORN DOWNLOADED A VIRUS ON THE COMPUTER!
>my older brother hit me>he went on the comp last>ctrl win key downDaaaaaad mark is putting viruses on the computer >he gets slappedWorked every time
>>739030617No dad, it's the gay porn you keep downloading from those russian sites that are the issue
>>739030617Everyone in my retarded extended family would always just throw the entire computer and monitor right in the dumpster and buy a new one whenever they "got a virus."
>>739031150>But anon... your mother died 32 years ago...
>>739030731kek
>buy some sketchy disk from a sketchy store with "1000 games!">install a few>play them, looking back now is just flash, romhacks and bootleg stuff>every single time that disc installer had a virus
>>739031005"VIRUSES could be here" he thought, "My son has never been on this website before. There could be viruses anywhere" The bud light can felt cool against his chest "I hate VIRUSES" he thought. The sounds of the superbowl reverberated his entire living room, making it pulsate as the shitty cheap beer circulated through his varicose veins and washed away his merited(?) fear of Super Mario ROMhacks on the interwebs. "With a wifi you can use your connection from anywhere in the world." he said to himself, out loud.
>>739030617>deleted the desktop icon>heh
My dad tried to force me to keep using thottbot instead of wowhead because the latter... had viruses on it? I don't even know what he was thinking with that one. Maybe just some kind of OCD compulsive thought.
I fucked up our computer downloading Halo CEs demo that had malware in it. The second the demo ended the application closed and started flooding the screen with pop-ups.
>>739031068my dad was disabled for like 20 years and housebound, never used the internet or played vidya. just tv all day. i think he hated nerdy shit on a fundamental level.
>>739030835Not knowing what a virus is just means they're more likely to think they have one.
>>739030617i remember my dad tried this when i was like 13 or so and i pointed out that paid software on a cd-rom that mom bought for me was probably not causing any issues. i think he tried to mention it once or twice more but since i was always the one who UNFUCKED the computer when it had issues even as early as like 10, he never got anywhere with it.the only time i was ever actually the cause of a computer problem was on our backup computer when i fucked the audio trying to get it to work with one of my games, but i was the only one who suffered from that since i was the only one who used that machine.
>>739030617do parents still do this or is this just a thread to trigger ptsd in millennials like do normalfags even use computers anymore for non-gaming purposes
>>739030617my parents never said this
>They actually did
>>739030617I look like this and say this
My dad thought PS3 PSN would somehow drain money from him despite never entering his credit card. He also thought using the internet with 2 devices at the same time from one router would cost money somehow. He just made shit up from nothing basically.
>I GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE INTERNET STOP PIRATING
>>739031068Because they had authority over children who grew up with that so of course you have stories of them being petty or dumb about it because that's what parents do.Nobody cares about the time my father got one of his friends at his works to tell him how to get a game that wasn't sold anywhere on the stores before I knew what pirating was or how to do it.
I recent had mom terrified because she accidentally subscribed to a youtube account and she thought that means she paid them money.
>>739031441Parents nowadays just give literal babies free access to ipads apparently.
>Dad gave me his old computer when he upgraded to a newer one>Just used it to play flash games and stream cartoons on shady sites, never put in any personal info or important files>Occasionally would get a virus>When that happened he'd just wipe the whole machine and let me do it all over againNaturally, no one but him was allowed to touch his computer.
I was born in 1995 and been using a PC since maybe 2002 and I have never gotten a virus. I don't really know what a virus is.
Somewhat related>decade-ish ago>visited some of my relatives>they have HDTVs and HD cable>but none of them are hooked up with HDMI>they were watching 16:9 displayed in a 4:3 letterbox>tell my uncle about it but he just says "it's the same thing"
>>739031763my older brothers kid likes to flick the air even without a device in his hand hes 4 years old
>>739031943thats alarming
>>739031796i got my own pc pretty young (lied to the school and said we had no PC at home, got a good one for free), and i fucking totalled that thing with viruses multiple times. just a wipe and reinstall of windows and it was right as rain, got used to starting fresh. and honestly my PC was constantly being used as the 'convenient' computer by my stepsisters and dad, so the harder it was to operate, the less i had to deal with thati'm still not used to loading up steam on a fresh PC and having all my cloud saves just werk
>>739032054I've attempted to tell him but his dad response is (well it keeps him happy) and he says (well you had kids so young so its different to now) Idgi
Just a tip for any parent itt, if your son actually knows something for a fact that you don't, maybe listen to him instead of just shitting on him and making up alternative facts based on nothing.
Dad that's not what I meant when I said it's a buggy piece of shit
>>739032390Don't talk back to me you little shit
Runescape didn't put a virus on my dad's computer, but it DID burn the UI into the screen and my dad was fucking PISSED about it
yes... all part of the plan.
>>739030617I was just glad my father was more worried about the supposed virus than that the websearch was completely gone.
>>739030617it looks like I downloaded the hantavirus. now we're fucked
>>739031281fatkek
>>739031281lol
>>739030617>had this happen to me >dad brought it up every fucking chance he got and used it to try and win arguments>caught my dad watching porn>never brought it up again after that
>>739031068>Why are there so many stories about parents refusing to understand technology?Because you realize a lot of those parents are management types in businesses, (or even worse, a useless human resources roastie) and constantly fuck things up for everyone involved.It literally never ends.
>>739030617dad blaming me and my browser games for the virus his porn habits contracted is about the time and place I realized all of it is a fucking scamthere is no patriarchy, just animals
>>739030835they knew that viruses were popups/things that fucked the computer up. of course they didn't "know" what viruses are, no one does.
>>739030731This is funnier than it should be.
Are viruses gone? Been 20+ years I never had to deal with one
>>739031124This story is incredibly retarded, might as well tell the dude:>Why didn't you put the laptop near the Titanic?>I did, but while I was at band class she got James Cameron to give them a ride in his personal submarine to get it.
>>739034367I think these days you have to be truly retarded, like downloading and running a random exe from an incredibly shady .rus site retarded.
>>739034091There is a psychological name for this kind of thinking.
>>739033915I caught my dad watching porn when I was 10 and he told me to go away.
>>739031068To those of us in our late 20s to mid to late 30s, it's moreso that that period in time was a perfect storm.Technology was progressing at a much faster rate, and the internet, arguably our biggest breakthrough as a species, was slowly becoming a mainstay in daily life.For our booker parents, most technology from their generation was just "X, but better."TVs but in color.Refrigerators but they didn't suck.Records but now they were compact and portable.Even if it was "new" it was just a better version of things that came before.Home PCs and the internet were a whole different ball game. It was too complex of a new trick for old dogs, especially if you were of a vocation or social class that didn't have much need for a computer outside of maybe someone like a secretary having one.I dont think Home PCs became a 50% majority till like... 2006?And by that time the train had sort of passed alot of our boomer parents.
>>739030617My dad was always like this. Used to even claim games would break the BIOS and he had to fix it.I was a small child at the time and I blindly believed his claims until I bought my own computer and discovered games don't break shit. It was then I realized he was just lying because he didn't like us playing games on the family computer.
>>739034612thisAnons that weren't alive during that time period don't really understand just how fast tech improved in that decade span.And even after they got established, things like the internet very quickly transformed into different beasts from the 90s to the 2000s.
>had my own computer since 11 years oldFeelsGoodMan. i'm almost 30 now btw
>>739031281ehehehehehe
>>739034748Yup!And the thing is, for many of us from that period, it's a case that not only did this stuff exist and was stable enough to be understandable by an average person, but accessibility to have these things became commonplace for the average family, so we basically grew up learning this stuff.Hell, I remember we had classes in elementary specifically for teaching you how to use a computer and the internet.Nowadays kids can wiz around on tablets by the age of what, 4?
Anyone ever get>ANON YOUR GAMES TAKE UP TOO MUCH ROOM ON THE COMPUTER, IT'S SLOWING IT DOWN, DELETE SOME OF THEM!
>When I was 12 I was forced to delete the only two games I had on the computer(Age of Mythology and Halo) because they 'put viruses' on it>even after I deleted my games, my sister still insisted they were on there and broke the discs>my sister was on the computer for several hours a day downloading shit off LimeWire >we had to take the HEAVILY virus ridden PC to our local PC shop to fix it and my sister was fully expecting the owner to say it was my games that did it, only for him to say that whoever was using LimeWire on it was fucking retarded and should be banned from touching the thing>Get home and my sister immediately reinstalled LimeWire when we set it back up and started the cycle again, all while blaming me and saying that me going on Neopets is what did it even though she also went on Neopets>Shit got worse when she discovered torrent and that she could download movies onto USB sticks >tfw 20+ years later my dipshit nephew riddled the family PC with so many viruses that it comprised my sister's bank account and they lost a couple grand but she refuses to accept that her precious baby couldn't have done it. 'He was just participating in free Robux/V-bucks give away and that I should mind my own business because 'i don't know jack shit' about computers and that her baby boy is a 'computer whiz'I have worked in PC repair for over a decade and have fixed multiple of their devices.
>>739035045Yep. I got my ass whooped when I showed my mum that the game took up significantly less than the shit she and my sister kept downloading..l
>>739034938>Hell, I remember we had classes in elementary specifically for teaching you how to use a computer and the internet.Very old man here.In the mid 90s, when I was in highschool, we didn't have a class teaching us how to use a computer and the internet because it was taken as a given ever student already knew. What we had was a class on how to code in pascal. When I was in primary school again we didn't have a class on how to use computers because it was taken as a given. We had a class on how to "code" in logo.
>>739034938Those fucking classes taught you the most obnoxious way to type in order to not get carpal tunnel when I did it. It was essentially to hike your hands up really high while you type.
>>739034612Computers used to be extremely finicky and breakable. Imagine spending $4000 on some Pentium shitbox that hard freezes if you try to move the mouse and click at the same time, which causes the hard drive to crash when it's writing system files with no recovery options. Good luck trying to download a Windows ISO on your 15.6K modem that shits itself every 30 minutes, that is even if you happened to know what the fuck an ISO is when you barely comprehend the concept of an operating system. Back when you could freely delete system32 and people online would tell you it was a good idea, no wonder boomers were paranoid of kids breaking their shit.
>>739034367you don't even need to worry about viruses anymore If you use windows 11. it's the same as surrendering all of your infos to hackers and I'm not joking.
>>739035318They're teaching you touch typing. That doesn't prevent carpal tunnel.
>>739033092>you are trying to beat your meat but the burnt in Runescape UI is covering the chicks tits>By chance a conversation was burnt in>It's your son saying he will RP blowjob some dude for a few gold>Go to son's room>tfw
>>739030617>>739030835My dad would say this when I would download Bonzi Buddy on the PC. Turns out he was right.
>>739030790The popups are cyrillic
>>739035078rape
>Get ragged on that my games are slowing the computer down and taking up room and all that>Dad is getting new computers at work and they are selling the old ones off for cheap>Talk dad into working with him there. Just a 2 weeks after school to when he goes home, about 3 hours >My pay, a half way decent desktop>Two, actually. Family computer and my very own, identical specs>Not even a year later, the family computer is bogged down and dad wants to print something>Take it, print it, good to go>Dad wanders into my room to see how I got the printer working for me>He is astonished at how fast it boots and brings windows up>Look up at him "Remember when you said my games were bogging down the computer? It was everyone else except me."Years later he still tells that story with "And that smug little shit said it was us and not him!" And we get a laugh out of it every time.Thanks for reading!
>Sister downloads imvu on the family computer>Says yes to install every piece of 3rd party software>Computer gets turbo aids and cancer>This is somehow my fault even though I just played browser gamesI learned to hate at an early age
>>739031068It's a largely boomer problem as they became egocentric avaricious cunts due to growing up in the greatest time of prosperity and social mobility since the black death. They lived life on super easy mode and because they were successfull if went straight to their heads. Combined with the anti-nuclear family propaganda and you get kids that should be seen, not heard, while you kick them to the curb at 18 and reverse mortage your home to go on a cruise.
>>739030750>pirate shit on limewire, actually downloading and running .exe type shit>no virus>stepsister's boyfriend downloads snuff films from some sketch ass site>instant virusstupid meathead retard
>>739030913That makes no sense.
>>739031068lead poisoning
>>739030617My dad thought GameSpy was spyware
>>739031068Because even to this very day the limited scope of technological use boils down to watching brain rotting content on TV. Only now instead of cable its all on your phones, tablets and streaming device.
>>739031068Boomers saw their kids enjoy something they didn't have growing up, so the natural course of action was to ruin it.Pretty much the boomer modus operandi
>dad watches me struggle like fuck with the nintendo wireless USB dongle so i can get my wii and DS online>after months of this hellish technology plaguing me he says "i think our router has wifi">i learn how to access the router settings and sure enough it has wifi that's disabled>all our devices are wired in so the installer just disabled it altogether and barely mentioned it>turn it on and it works greati STILL get angry thinking about how inconsistently the dongle worked
my dad told me steam was a chinese cybercafe virus program and quietly didn't mention that he was downloading a lot of bestiality porn on the sidethough there was one time where i actually did fuck things upthere was a modding website for The Movies (as in the game called The Movies) called skinshack that got hacked to include a virus with every download, and even if the mods were kind of basic and shitty i still got some
>>739035326No they weren't finnicky nor were they expensive. People also didnt download windows ISOs because 99% of drives were readonly.
>>739034367yeah still tons of them, lots of programs have exploits especially windows ones and can be injected in sneaky ways
>>739034612yeah basically this sums up exactly me and my parents
>>739035618I work in retail as a manager and like 99% of our repeat problem customers are boomers. And it's always over the most asinine shit possible. Like they THOUGHT they saw something was on sale, I go check it, it's not on sale, the thing that was on sale was on the other side of the fucking shelf, and they have the audacity to get mad at me personally and insult me for it. >Well I found it there>it's possible another customer may have put that item there sir, but it's not on sale, it was just misplaced.>Well that's not my problem, it's supposed to be on sale>no sir, that's an entirely different item>well that's not my problem, you need to honor the saleIf they weren't such fucking faggots about it and just go "oh shit my bad, I misread it", I would have tossed a discount just to be nice if it's not a big one but they always act like such cunts that I only ever did something like that once or twice in my job.
We know boomers are dumb but did you ever have any dumb thoughts as a kid?I remember I was so surprised seeing people host their own private servers 24/7 I thought these people were super rich. I was so used to the idea of sharing computers and shutting them down when not in use I couldn't fathom leaving a computer running for so long. In my head that was only something a big company could afford. In reality they probably just left a shitty dell running at home. Nowadays everyone uses a VPS so that hardly matters.
>>739036313>>well that's not my problem, you need to honor the saleThis is because of this retard meme about how stores legally have to honor labelled prices even if they're wrong. This is not true. Some entities have some form of this as store policy but it's not a legal requirement. Labelled pricing is legally considered merely an "invitation to treat" and not a sales contract and therefore there is no legal obligation to honor the labelled price. For the same reason the store can't compel the buyer to pay the higher price the buyer can't compel the seller to sell at the lower price.
>>739035706>tfw Avril_Lavigne_14yo_fucks_dog.avi.exe 15kb wasn't actually a videoFug
>>739036563I tried eating my mom's perfume because of picrel.
>Actually, it was the shady porn sites, but let's let them think it was the games.
>>739030617No, dad, that's just Prototype.
>>739036594Our store actually has that policy when it comes to something like expired sales, so like if the people in charge of putting up/removing sales tags misses one, like a steak that was on a weekend sale for like 3 bucks, I can still honor it since it's treated as a "oh hey, thanks for catching that, our bad, we'll give you it for free/half off" Which I think is perfectly fair, everyone's happy, we clean up a mistake and customer is gets something for free/cheaper. However it only applies if the sale matches the product, like grabbing a steak, putting it where the cheap rice is where it's on sale for like a dollar, doesn't make the steak one dollar. And yet I've had customers pull this shit and I have to muster my energy not to call them a retard.I don't even think it's a scam or anything, I never see teenagers/regular adults do this, it's just boomers doing this shit.
>>739031068their ego couldnt handle being inferior to their progeny in any metricany regular human unpoisoned by lead wouldve asked to be taught or learned on their own to better themselves and their family
>>739030750That checks out. My little brother's computer got infected with a virus that filled his downloads folder with trans porn after he visited a bible study site according to him
>>739030617He was right once>download "game" from some direct download blog>install it>now every toolbar on my browser is ask dot com>it also injected my shortcuts with ask stuffTook a beating for that and he had to hire a guy to format our PC.
>>739037367lol, deserved
I looked at incest hentai with my sister, good times
>>739036313>"Well, <other store> has it for much cheaper!">"I know the owner!">"I've been with <store name> for <arbitrary year>! You need to cater to my needs!"These people were lucky that laws protected them and that it was more peaceful in the past. I haven't worked in retail for decades and it still lives rent free in my mind.
>>739036976It's because boomers were also fed the customer is always right bullshit. They genuinely believe they can get away with anything if they argue it hard enough to the right person because they are fucking retarded.
>>739030617>Dad deleted my video game OSTs to recover space on the hard drive>I printed off his ICQ chatlogs where he was flirting with women and showed it to mom
>>739037661Did it work?
>>739035078>dipshit nephew riddled the family PC with so many viruses that it comprised my sister's bank accountSounds like your nephew is secretly a chad until your sister comes back to reality.
>3 years old in like 1996 or something>Dad had Warcraft 2 installed on a pc, some other games>Had a save where he almost won a game and I would get to load it and play to my easy victory>Also got to watch horror movies and stuffany comfy family pc stories?
>>739037661>parents divorce>mom dates a new guy a few years later>he was a douche to all of us but mom stays with him because he bought her anything she wanted>I ended up getting a handful of games because of it>one day I’m using his laptop for a school project>accidentally delete something>check recycle bin>there were pictures of him crossdressing in my mom’s nightgownsI really, REALLY wish I saved those pictures to use them against him.
>>739030731
>>739030617>Meanwhile my Sister downloading One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful.mp3.exe was never once questioned.
>>739035078theres no way this story is real
>>739037661Nothing came of it. He said he was joking and mom coped I guess. He was mad but coudlnt figure out if it was me or my sibling who ratted him out and my sister is cool. He never fucked with my files again though.
>>739030617>Be me 10 year old>Mom comes home with her office computer for the first time>Out of the fucking blue "anon you can play with this today">I instead went biking with two Friends around the city that day>Mom picks computer back up>The next day "oh my god anon you put viruses on my computer, I used it for work">Probably she wanted to offload the responsibility for fucking up her work PC onto me I think we all have weird core memories like that.
>>739037660>They genuinely believe they can get away with anything if they argue it hard enough to the right person I get people with that mentality at work fairly regularly. Almost always boomers. Except I work for the government and they are not customers but tax payers. They think if they bitch and moan enough and demand to speak to my supervisor they're going to get away with not having to pay their taxes. Doesn't work that way at all. This is not a restaurant where the manager can comp your food for you. All my manager is going to say is "Taxes are required by law. You MUST pay." The younger ones tend to understand they're not supposed to be kicking up a stink and demanding to speak to my manager. They know they're supposed to be begging for the government not to do things like garnish their bank account and wages. Hell, if the boomers are really obnoxious about their bitching and moaning and complaining then they get blacklisted and all communication going forward has to be done by snail mail.
>>739030617My parents never did this but a friend's parents thought I caused a virus on their computer because I introduced them to Runescape.Said friend's older brother liked downloading porn and random files off of limewire on the family computer, I know this because he showed me.
The definitive family computer shared experience.
>>739036313>>739037551So this is why governments hire sassy black women. They deserve it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz3bDON9bNo
>>739030835turd worlder detectedEvery first world boomer knew what a computer virus was even if they didn't understand any of the details. There were stories about them on the news.
>>739030835In the 2000's they heard the term and used it as a catch-all for computer doesn't work.
>Dad showed me how to safely pirate shit>Would act the part in front of mum when the letter came in the mail from ISP, then pulled me aside to tell me to ignore that shit and continue doing what I am doingLove you dad.
>>739030835They know enough that virus = bad so any technical issue with the pc is a virus.
>>739038274insanely based
Replace parents with me in this scenario. I was the one that was always removing malware and trojans from their fucking PC's. Every god damn time. I don't think I ever got a computer virus unintentionally.
>>739037801Having money stolen by some Bangladeshi shitskin doesn't make him a Chad.
I became the boomer a few years back when I was visiting my brother and saw his son playing valorant>you ever heard of a kernel level rootkit?i don't even give a shit about that, i just don't want my family members playing riot's bullshit games
>>739032390sound'n REAL smug fer someone in beer bottle range.
>>739038532Survival of the fittest unfortunately. In this case, total Ranjeet victory.
>>739035078Thats women for you, shit from the start.
>>739030731Fpbp
>>739030617My father was very concerned over things like this. I'd buy a PC game and ask dad's permission to install it and he'd ask if I bought it from some PORN SITE because those have VIRUSES on them. And I'd be like no, I bought this from the store.
>>739038643Of course.
>>739038708>he'd ask if I bought it from some PORN SITE because those have VIRUSES on themTo which I'd be asking "Dad, how the fuck would I be able to do that without using your card?"
I still use windows 7 on my desktop. I'm literally on it 14 hours a day, everyday. It's been like this for 10 years. No anti virus, no proxies, just raw dogging the internet and Torrenting all the time. Never had a virus
>>739030835If you think mainstream media wasn't reporting on viruses as they became known to prey on people's skepticism of oncoming technology then lmao
>>739038851Dude, same. The only problem is that steam just literally will refuse to download anything, so I'm considering switching to one of those retard's first linux distros.
>>739030835Boomers thought the computer getting slower from all the bloat they downloaded onto it was a virus you put on the computer from playing flash games and watching videos
>>739031068>refusing to understand technologyMy mother is a perfect example of someone literally REFUSING to understand. Like, I try to show her how her printer - the one she bought for herself - works, and she just throws up her hands and goes "I can't do it, you do it" and no matter what I say she refuses to listen.THERE ARE FOUR BUTTONSONE IS FOR TURNING IT ON AND OFFONE IS FOR B&W COPIESONE IS FOR COLOR COPIESONE IS FOR CANCELYOU STUPID BITCH
>>739031138boomer site zoomie
>>739039180My dad has been a software developer for something like 40 years and he still does this sort of bullshit. He knows more than I do about this crap and yet he'll still ask me questions I don't know the answer to when he could easily google the answer himself but he just refuses to do that. I don't get it.
>step father was computer literate>never blamed my vidya for slowing down the computer, even built one for me that ran fine for agesMy dad is cool.
>>739038997i still remember the mydoom worm causing everyone to chimp out
>>739035147And then they hit you with that "nuh-huh I know how this works and I say your stuff takes up more space than mine and I'm right".It's been a delight having my own stuff for the first time and having room to spare while they keep bloating their stuff to the point it doesn't work.They even tried to pull that "oh I have no space on my computer you save this stuff on yours".
>>739031138>when you get older you should literally not remember anything that happens half of your life cause of reasons
My parents were early computer adopters especially my dad was a huge nerd so I never had this experienceInstead they put emulators on the computer and we always had the top of the line shit
>>739035706I mean, of you want to make money you target the sites where 99% of the retards go, not where the 1% of tech literate people are.
>>739039339If he's a software developer for 40 years and hits you with this I'm afraid to say your dad was probably just a couch warmer that did no work and only kept in the company because of seniority
>>739039741No, it's just he doesn't like to learn new things unless he cares to. So at the age of like 50 he decided to learn French and German but when it comes to things like what mobile phone he should buy he doesn't care to do any research himself and just comes and asks me what to get even though I know fuck all about mobile phones and he knows that.
>be me>be playing Runescape on dad's computer>mining coal, mining coal, all my life I'm just mining coal>dad comes into he room>"Were you watching porn?">"No">"Then what were those panic clicks? You started panic clicking as soon as you heard me on the stairs.">just stare at him in profound confusion
>>739039630Same, my dad was a sysadmin so we always had computer parts lying around all over the place. Before we got a decent internet connection at home I would also go with him to his workplace specifically to download any random games I could find. Also think I put together my first own PC when I was around 12, so didn't have to use the family one after that anyway.
>>739039630That's fucking awesome anon, lucky to have parents like that. I love my parents too, they knew quite a bit about computers (especially my mom) but after I got to highschool age she stopped really using them and her knowledge fell behind because of it. Still love how she helped with my computer issues when I was a little shit and knew nothing.
>>739040053My dad was up high in IT for a large oil company for a couple of decades. Tech companies were always sending them the latest tech shit to play with hoping they'll roll it out for the whole company. He was allowed to just keep a lot of this stuff for himself. So much tech gear was brought home but it was all largely useless because it was all bespoke stuff intended for business use only. This was a long time ago when there were still people competing with IBM/PC compatible that weren't called Apple. Still got a few free IBM PCs and apples out of it.
>>739031068It's the leaded gas during their time that made them insane, that explains all the serial killers back then and how they're so retarded and hostile now.
>>739040440>It's the leaded gas during their time that made them insaneThere's actually not a lot of evidence for that.It's generally agreed that the reason for the reduction is due to improvement in mental health care and that they're much more likely to be caught and incarcerated early these days compared to 50 years ago.
>>739035801>>739037052>>739040440>leadis there some documentary or video essay that I missed or something?
>>739030731>sees you playing them again later>"ANON I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO GET RID OF THEM GAMES">get grounded
>>739030617my dad is black, and he's tech literate enough to know how viruses workwell he used to be anyway, once he turned 50 it was like a switch flipped in his boomer brain
>>739040826>"ANON I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU"yea WHATEVA
>>739040916CAUSE THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVAAAA
>>739040778https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDAHere's a good video on it.He does a bunch of other videos on other super fucked up shit that is memory holed. Like how one company secretly poisoned the planet, exposing why farmers can't legally replant their own seeds, the man who killed millions and saved billions, how kodak exposed nuclear testing, ect. Watch some if you want to blackpill yourself.
>mum was able to program VCR in the 80s tapes heaps of shit that i watch as a wee lad>figures out how to swap out uhf cable and program plug in super nintendo>the day i figure out how to plug cables in and out of the tv she forgets all of it and can never set up technology on her own ever agianCurious
>>739038532Not his money, not his problem
>>739039180My mom is the same. Recently my uncle and I had some dishwasher fixed. We were trying to show her how it works and she just refused to look at it insisting that she can't do it. To start that thing all you have to do is press a button and turn a fucking dial
>>739040314For mine it was mostly standard PC stuff from the '90s-'00s, though he did manage to save one or two Silicon Graphics machines from being scrapped, speaking of unusual stuff.
>>739034367No one updated brown people to be immune to the maverick virus so that one's still kicking
VR immersion is hampered by the presence of the bulky headset, poor FOV, and motion controllers
>>739030617when was the last time you ever got a virus?
>>739031068Stubbornness on their part, mostly. It's funny, during early computers my dad was way more capable, he taught me how to do command line stuff in DOS. But as computers got more advanced and "smart", the less he understood.
>>739034612I swear to god the computer in my parents room from 2004 functions normally. how the hell did a machine dating back in my high school life still exist? I think it's a Windows XP? Do any of you anons have any computers still hanging around for more than a decade. I'm still on my decade old laptop.
>>739042640I did but I finally upgraded in early 2021.
my dad talked to me yesyerday about the pc and one of the tvs (which apparently gets cable or whatever via internet, i dont use tvs so i dk what they do anymore)he was convinced that facebook captchas are to blame.
>>739042640Yeah two PCs. One from 2013 running windows 7 and one even older running windows xp. I'm trying to figure out what to do with them, they aren't in use and take up space. I might turn one of them into a server
>>739031068dad has literally never learnt to use a pc more than he could when i was a baby almost 3 decades agothey just genuinely just refuse to learn, it's another faggot trait from their generation
>>739030617I was the dumb fuck kid who had a billion shitty mario fan game shortcuts from MFGG filling up the entire desktop
>>739030617>2001>make too many operations at once>Dad's pc freeze>gives me a lesson about how his computer always act right when I'm not around and I don't know how to use it
I feel like malware used to be more about being wantonly bombastic and destructive for the hell of it, whereas these days malware is pretty much entirely profit-driven and stays as quiet as possible to keep you in the botnet / cryptofarm / credential harvester without you knowing about it. Unless it's ransomware, in which case a little showmanship is back on the menu.
>>739039912I hope you teased your dad for self-reporting.
>2000s>shut down, turn off monitor before the "it is now safe to off your pc" message>grandfather who thought my shitty caricature drawings of teachers when bored in class were "demons" and thus thought i was in a satanic cult, thought the pc was now ruined>buy expensive pc parts>dad "but are you going to JUST play games or use it for other things" incorrectly correlating the importance of schoolwork, work, etc with pc power>ok so copy then past->UGH I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO ALL THAT TECHNO WIZARD BABBLE WHY DOESNT IT JUST WERK
>>739038997Same with all the retards that fear AI today because it's newExact same shit as boomers getting mad about games and desktop shortcuts
>>739030826What a fucking loser.
what's the earliest thing you saved that's still with you presently?
>switch tab>parents fw
>>739031068It's more that you don't hear stories about the parents that figured it out or even had jobs related to computers. Though a decent chunk of people do just get upset about things changing and prefer to avoid it entirely rather than adapt.
>>739042880
>be chatting online>parents are who are you talking too>this was on a nintendo message board.also unrelated but it's kind of fucked up knowing kids today will encounter their parents on facebook or whatever social media they have.
>>739042870Theres a difference between refusing to understand technology that can help you and something only jeets and people incapable of creating art support.
>open desktop>numerous command windows prompt and vanishes.
you know those old pics making fun of boomers desktops and internet browsers full of extra menu bars, clippy, ads/viruses, bonzai buddy, etcmy parents figured out how to do whatever the equivalent is on their phones
>>739042880Tue Mar 04 2008 07:24:48from /g/
>>739031068they grew up in an era where you drank and D'd your way through high school and college, got a stable high paying job due to a firm handshake and no prob well train you, with the most complicated thing they ever had to learn to use was their car
>>739038025this shit was kino, although i think i had encarta 2002 or some other early 2000s versionthe google street view style "walk around egypt" type stuff entertained me for hours
My parents refused to get wifi (not internet, just wifi specifically) so I had to steal it from my neighbor.
>>739030876lmao
>>739030876>they don't have penis inspection day in Europe
has your perception of reality changed anons? feels like a dream but it happened.
>>739031124>Buy my own laptop with his own money>Sister tries to hijack it, tards out and whines to mom>Mom then gives the sister the laptop that HE paid for because "He can't be trusted with le computers"I know that there are plenty of parents that are THIS retarded and despise their children this much do exist but in combination with the rest of the story "It fell in a puddle while she was running." and shit like that makes me instantly refuse to believe this story exists and is just Anon crafting ragefuel on purpose or exaggerating heavily.
>>739043307i dunno, there are parents who blatantly favour one kid and are tone deaf to the other(s) even against common sense
>>739030617My dad said this while downloading random shit off Kazaa and Emule
>look up aerith dies. it's a hentai site. i think cloud had a varient too.
>>739034367i never saw any point in viruses that just fuck with you and are obvious. why bother when yoi could sneakily hack and get credit card info or whatever?
>>739030617>this exact alleged situation with my cousin's pc was probably a critical life altering event for me as it was right when runescape was hooking mePlayed the shit out of it for a weekend and then that was it. To the stranger who entrusted a shitload of coins to me out of nowhere, I'm sorry I never got a chance to give it back. I still wanna say what the fuck though, you just picked me out of the crowd.
>>739043175what the fuck does that even mean? if you have internet, just enable wifi in the router? if your parents are so stupid they think wifi is demonic how are they going to know you enabled it
>>739030617wtf why did you do that anon?!
>limewire dl a movie>its not a virus, just a different movie than what the filename iswhy even
>>739035869Coco's cocos
>>739043429In the same way people made art and videos just for fun back then and not to hide them behind a paywall, others made viruses just for the sake of destruction and not to profit off someone.It was before everything on the internet became profit driven.
>>739033915This is why I laugh at the Vidyacels who brag about having a family as if you are.nlt going to just continue the same cycle you already have.
>>739030617Not really a kid thing but I got a new SSD for christmas and it was nuking my PC for some reason and it would boot into a windows repair that'd just reset the PC in a loop.My stepdad god bless him kept trying to give me bullshit technobabble advice which I'm sure would have been handy if I was working on some government CCTV main computer from the 90s that he often has to fuck with because he's a faggot ATF fed. He kept trying to repeat the same thing that really wasn't relevant to my SSD and I was pissing him off because 'I wasn't listening.'I figured out it was because installing an M.2 drive disables some of your SATA ports and my ports were ordered in a way that it was disabling the SATA port my main SSD was on so it'd boot into a shitty harddrive that had a non-functional windows install I never bothered to clear out. It had literally nothing to do with what the fuck he was going on about.I still gave him a hug and said thanks after teasing him.
>>739043643I remember trying to dl iron man 2 once. File name looked legit. Ended up with she-male porn. It was pretty funny.
remember those codes from the Sims 2 and having them die in random places?
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>>739043707whats the issue? sounds like you got what you asked for
>>739041685It was his problem when his dad found out kek. He belted his ass and cancelled the PS5 lay-by they had for his birthday.
if for nothing else im glad i was born a millenial, just in time for girls hair to finally become attractive for the first time in history
>>739034367It feels like it though they're clearly still out there. I think a big part of it is the internet just largely being closed into a handful of trusted sites. It's not really the wild west anymore and one of the few, possibly the only, perks of that is you're less likely to stumble into genuinely shady sites. And even if you do, you have stuff like virustotal too.
>>739041178Same. My mum used to set up the N64 for me when I was a kid but couldn't figure out a HDMI cable
>>739035541Rare wholesome ending.
>>739043643This happened all the time lel, I still have this vivid image of my sister and I opening what was supposed to be a movie and it was just a short clip of a fat naked guy crashing through a poster and flopping his dick to this song.https://youtu.be/QGKiC2suCHQ
>>739043707>tfw you think you downloaded Iron Man 2, but you actually downloaded Iron Trans 2
>>739043802such is life, I got whipped with the power cord for the PC I dismantled. Apparently I could've electrocuted myself and killed my mother when she'd turn it on
>>739043818>doesn't like the 80s poofabsolute faggotnever speak to me again
>>739043915>I got whipped with the power cord for the PC I dismantledI really should not have laughed at the mental image, but I did.
>>739043994shit hurt but it I got a good story out of it
>>739030617>1990s-2000s>Boomers think literally everything will put a virus on your computer>2010s-2020s>Boomers happily click away on the links provided to them by the big titty blonde lady account promising them a million dollars sir and lots of bobs and vagene sir if they would just go to this website and fill out this form here sir
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>>739043643just a bit of harmless trickery. peopleme used to record over rental vhs tapes with random shit as a jokethe real faggotry was in the ones that did stuff maliciously>want to relisten to a song i heard on the radio>surprise! it's ray goldstein's cavernous adventures into the undercarriage of a ten year oldor my favourite>cousin wants to listen to her favourite popstar>we both watch a dude get his head pulped with a hammer before we know what's happening
>>739031927this makes my blood boil
>>739030617My dad once hit me because Windows 7 was updating at startup and he thought I bricked the computer
>that time I found all the rape porn my dad downloadedGreat taste ngl
>>739044349Like, fake "rape" porn, or actual illegal shit?
>>739043678Sorry you don’t have a family I guess lol
>>739030617>AND THEN YOUR COMPUTER GAVE ME COVID. INJECT A VACCINE INTO THE COMPUTER NOW.
>parents tell everyone how smart i am as a kid and how far im gonna go just because i know how to use the computer>grow up to be an unemployable borderline retarded neetheh thatll show em
>>739030617Been drinking again dad?
>>739037660>It's because boomers were also fed the customer is always right bullshit.YupThe worst part is "the customer is always right" is an incomplete quote, it's meant ot be "the customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE", meaning if someone wants to buy something that you as a salesperson think is ugly or gaudy, then it's not your place to try and "correct them" on itIf "the customer is always right" was a verbatim rule then it would be fucking chaos and capitalism would fail overnight as people would say "I don't have to pay for this" and just take the entire stock of a store for free
>>739037550hot
>>739030835My dad did not know what a virus was, that did not stop him from calling it a virus whenever the computer didn't do what he wanted.
>>739045069>I dont have to pay for thisThen they aren't a customer, and are no longer right.
>>739043307>>739043307nah, I've seen this kind of thing myself, I genuinely think it's real. Notice there's no dad mentioned in the storythis is completely accurate to what feminist women are like with their sons
>>739030617My pop was always tech-savvy. He spends most of his free time downloading porn, he's into futa lately
>>739034367You don't have any money for them to steal. Businesses have money, so they target those instead of you.Going after the average person for some cash is like squeezing a fucking rock for some water while some soaking wet sponges sit in a pile nearby.
>>739045519you talk about porn with your dad?
>>739031068i actually found a solution that worked even on 70+ dinosaurs, you just firmly say that you don't understand how it works either, just refuse to acknowledge you can do it, they throw hands at first, then if they actually need it they begin to experiment after trying to trouble you with it couple more times, just remain firm and never help and say you just don't understand how it works
>>739030750>the jewish article said so!athecucks are such shabbo's goyim
>>739045659No, I try avoiding porn and I'm mostly into vanilla stuff anyway, so I'm the boomer here
>>739040778My boomer parents recounted stories of them and their friends siphoning gas out of people's gas tanks using a hose and sucking on it and getting mouthfuls of the leaded gasoline when it came up the hose.This was a common thing boomers everywhere were doing when they were teenagers.
>>739044168>or my favourite>>cousin wants to listen to her favourite popstar>>we both watch a dude get his head pulped with a hammer before we know what's happeninghow did you two handle that? Worst I saw at that age was a guy's head in pieces after ggetting shot, I feel like seeing what you guys saw would haunt me forever
>>739045707but then how do you know he's into futa right now
>>739031068What's worse is having a dad who insists he knows computers when he clearly doesn't, idiot ruined so many desktops thank fuck he's into smartphones now.
>>739045740I use family PC when I'm visiting my parents. One day he'll be gone and I'll have to purge terabytes of all sorts of coomer shit. At least he's smart enough not to be a paypig
>>739045308>i only have to pay 0.01% of the listed pricebetter?
>>739045829oh, fair enoughwhen i was a kid i used my dad's laptop to play runescape and one day found Bible Black nested inside a few folders, never told him though (mainly because i didn't really understand what i was seeing as a ~10 year old)
>>739045932I used to keep the Bible Black visual novel on a USB stick and played it on my dad's PC when he was at work... good times.
>>739045708Zoomer here, that happened to me but with diesel. I even swallowed some
>>739037924he's reposted it several times, so it's gotta be real
>>739046245Does it taste as good as it smells?
>>739046339it dries your mouth and has this almost bitter taste. Pretty similar to how it smells
>>739042640Have a windows xp rig that I still use now and then, even got a crt monitor for the full experience.
>>739039180She is not stupid. She just doesnt want to do it, because it's boring shit and she is lazy. I work with a guy like this. >You do this task>nono i dont know how>ok I show you>noI fucking hate beaners
>>739040440>leaded gasthey all have lead plugs in their teeth that leak lead straight into their bloodstream and nervous system
>>739046784I’ve never known adults to throw in the towel like little kids do. Thats like trying to teach a kid how to ride a bike and they’re too scared they might fall.
>>739043307>"It fell in a puddle while she was running."Reading comprehension anon, it fell into a puddle while the laptop was running, not the sister.
>>739045069>The worst part is "the customer is always right" is an incomplete quote, it's meant ot be "the customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE"this is literally just not true by the way. that's obviously what it means, but "the customer is always right" is the complete original saying, and the second half was made up later. probably because retards didn't understand it.
>>739031068It's like today's anti-AI holdouts. They get an obstinate yet wrong idea of "new bad" and will never, ever let it go despite the target of their ire becoming a part of life and never, ever going away.
>>739046940He knows how to do it. He just doesnt want to because he's a lazy cunt, and he thinks he's being clever by saying 'I dont know how'.
>>739037924It's really not that unlikely, basically the same shit happened to me but it was Kazaa instead of Limewire, I think.The second part about the nephew didn't happen to me but instead my niece drained like a couple hundred in a single night from my sister's bank account. Apparently she paid for a bunch of porn with some sort of pay-over-phone-contract scheme. But fortunately this never happened again after I told her that I know exactly what she paid for and what sites she visited and that I'd tell my sister if it'll happen a second time.
>>739046940I never knew how bad it could get until I got into a field where it's mostly womenHoly shit most of them just immediately give the fuck up if anything that might challenge them comes up, it's fucking hilarious
>>739047218how did you find out about your niece buying porn if not through your sister?
>>739047331The charges showed up as additional phone plan payments, it wasn't specified what was paid for, or maybe my sister was just a retard and couldn't find a proper billing page, who the fuck knows.As for finding out, that's kinda easy when kids these days don't even bother deleting their browser history or turning on private mode.
I don't know how people can use computers every single day of their life and not know a single goddamn thing about them>takes a screenshot of google image results instead of right click > save as>takes a picture of the monitor with her phone to email it to me instead of just emailing the fucking picture on the computer>accidentally saves the thumbnail>Oops, accidentally closed that tab. Time to look up that page on google again. >Aw shit, I accidentally deleted the entire window. Now I'll never get back those tabs ever againby the way, you can press ctrl+shift+t to reopen your last closed tab, shit's rad>motherfucker still uses fucking MICROSOFT EDGE IN [CURRENT YEAR]>anon how do I fullscreenpress f11>anon what the fuck did you do to my computer, I can't click anything, how do you exit, what the fuck, did you break it???? press f11>anon how do I move this computer screen to that projector screenpress win+p>anon how do I split the computer screen and the projector screenpress win+p>you're gonna have to do that for me next time, I'm never gonna remember these shortcuts, they're too complicated>right click > copy, right click > paste>gee I really dislike how youtube videos automatically play the next videohave you tried pressing the "turn autoplay off" button?>saves the link to a youtube video by copying and pasting the URL into a Microsoft Powerpoint file. (using right click obviously)>shows a video to the office, doesn't fullscreen the video, leaves the cursor on the progress bar so it doesn't automatically close, has italian subtitles that they don't turn off>don't adblockers just give you viruses or something? what's the point?oh and here's one that truly baffles me to no end>fullscreen application has a big EXIT button at the bottom of the screen>can't figure out how to close because there's no red X in the top right>CTRL+ALT+DEL >log out>log back in so the program isn't running anymore>do this every time he opens the program
>>739035618Boomers got advice like "just be on time, never complain, do your job in silence and you'll be rewarded" and every single one of them won the lottery thanks to this advice, and the electric jew reinforces this idea that it's still the same. So when they see any young person struggling, they think you're genuinely as lazy as the worst junkies they saw when they were 20. The boomer's view of reality is based entirely on lies and things that died decades ago.
>>739043818This is quite possibly the gayest post on this entire website, and I mean this without sarcasm
>>739047738>just, like, walk into a random office and ask for a job, broi’ve genuinely had some 60 year old tell me this. oh yeah why didnt i think of that? spear tackle the security guy to get inside an office building and then hassle people for a job! it’s sounds so easy in hindsight!
>>739047518You think its farfetched but look at another example: cars. Do you really think most people know the fundamentals, the ins and outs, even small little things about their cars?
>>739047868I fondly remember writing applications by mail for a student job back in the day, and getting the great advice of "What are you wasting your time with this online nonsense for? Just walk into the store and ask for a job!". Yeah, the minimum wage faggot behind the counter is just waiting to give me his job, and surely won't direct me to their fucking website so I can put in an application by mail, like everyone else in this the year 2009.
>>739047931gee, I would fucking hope so. The first thing I did when I got my car was READ THE MANUAL, I know it's crazy, you might even call me a little fucked up, a little nuts, like I got a screw loose, a tad insane, but I did it. Took me a whole half an afternoon.
>>739034367I almost got one a few years ago when some file hosting site demanded I turn adblock off to download a file I had uploaded myself.They even automatically renamed the exe into file I uploaded.Chrome detected it immediately and deleted the virus before it even finished downloading. Only reason I gave that shithole the benefit of the doubt with my internet condom was cause a buddy of mine had used it all the time.
>>739047868Yeah. But the TV and all of their friends which are all also boomers tell them the opposite of what you're saying, so they won't believe you. The only way for a boomer to realize what's going on is to be forced to look for another job, and that almost never happens, since they're all rich and retired and companies don't fire the old ones, they cycle through the young ones. Boomers were also turbo-rewarded for loyalty, if you started as a cashier, you were guaranteed to become a manager doing nothing with a huge salary if you stayed 10 years. Meanwhile you are forced to job-hop, and everyone is telling the boomer that you do this not because of inflation and because it's the only way to actually advance, but because you're a disloyal cheap whore.
>download some neat amateur porn off limewire>have no idea what it was called and no idea how to find it again
>>739048209This has happened to me a few times. It's the worst.
>>739031281"NIGGERS could be here" is a genuine work of art.
>>739030617I remember my mom installed Bonzi Buddy because she thought I would like the silly little gorilla. When I wasn't nearly as excited as she expected me to be, she got mad at me for it.Couple of days later she got mad at me again for doing something weird to the pc because it was "doing stuff it never did before", and it took my uncle who knew a lot about pc's to convince her that it was her fault.
>>739047078Every source I see says that it's always been the full quote. Share your source before making retarded claims.
>>739047156AI doesn't compare to what boomers had in the slightest. This was a really clumsy attempt at conflating the two.
>>739048275This guy's right, even Wikipedia agrees with him>In the 21st century, social media users and TikTok videos began claiming that the phrase had been abbreviated from "The customer is always right, in matters of taste", with some directly attributing this longer quotation specifically to Selfridge. Fact-checking website Snopes found no evidence for this
>>739048238https://warosu.org/lit/thread/12124665
>>739031763yeah i've seen this, it's grim. my in-laws and one of my friends both raised their firstborns with ipads. both of them had pretty bad behavioral issues and have since been diagnosed with autism. i do not believe it is a coincidence because my other family/friends have normal children who were not raised on screens from day 1. we can't even go out to dinner with them and their kids without the kid demanding an ipad or a phone at the table and the parents relent and give their kid the device and shug their shoulders "it's the tism, waddayagunnado"
>>739048390Well, if Wikipedia says that Snopes so, then I'll be a boomer and just believe it at face value because it feels right. You wouldn't lie to me, would you?
>>739031747Recently my mom called me all hysterical because she thought she deleted a five page letter that she was emailing to her lawyer. Turns out my brother told her to copy/paste the whole thing onto the email instead of sending a file, and she accidentally did copy/cut instead. My mother is an old lady at this point so I wasn't really surprised at this, but my brother who is only a year and half younger than me being barely more tech literate than her surprises me.
>>739030835pretty sure they knew about virus as in biological terms, just not how it works
Did didnt even know about browsing history. Used to be a big fan of a site called Beast Girls.
>>739050554tell me it was for kemonomimi ecchi dont tell me it was for furry porndont tel me it was for irl zoo porn
>>739030835It makes sense precisely because they don't know what they are but they've heard all the scary stories about them so whenever something is wrong with the computer it must be because of a virus.
>>739030750I trauma dump vocally through mic or on my keyboard to sound so pathetic that whoever breached my system and compromised my stuff feel bad about it and won't ransom my ass.
>>739042819>UGH I DONT KNOW HOW TO DO ALL THAT TECHNO WIZARD BABBLE WHY DOESNT IT JUST WERKEvery time you ask a boomer what they're trying to do in the first place
>>739031281Quality shitpost? On my /v/? It's more likely than you think.
This thread is extremely sad and made me realize how many anons come from toxic families. I hope you guys are doing okay now.
>>739047518It's a state of mind>I don't know what's wrong so you have to fix itis a genuine way of life
>>739047931>carsno but i there's something wrong with my car I will sure as shit let a professional deal with the problem and help make their job easier if I can, instead of>I don't know it does that on its own>you're the professional, FIX IT>LALALA I can't understand you giving me basic instructions on how to not fuck upmentality that lots of people have
>>739030826the wii didn't have an ethernet port
>>739035078damn your sister is retarded but I bet she fucks like a pornstar
>>739038274why couldn't i have your dad instead of my piece of shit deadbeat old man
>>739031124>You got the job thanks to me, so your money is my money...I had an ex who once pulled that argument on me.
do families even have a shared computer anymore? everyone seems to have their own screen these days
>>739036563anon, dumb thoughts = kid. It's part of the growing experience to be retarded sometimes and learn from your mistakes. Of course, your family and friends (and society in general, to an extent) will also guide you along the way and avoid you hurt or kill someone, but sometimes you just can't help yourself to simply try>biten a car fragance pendant>sliced a thumb through a cutter to see if it was edged enough to use, somehow forgetting that if it was i would get cut>eaten discarded pizza slices from the top of the trash bin ("hey, they just discarded them seconds ago and are right at the top, barely touching the rest of the trash, they're fine!")>believed some ad pop-ups in the internet were real, so i went apologizing for the off chance that the FBI actually got our address or some hacker got our bank account because i was watching porn (12y btw)
>>739053353aint no way a 12y is this retarded
>>739038274Sweet Mine did too
>>739030835Viruses were more obvious back in the days instead of hidden malware and actually destroyed your device rather than steal your information so even the most technologically illiterate person knew what a virus was.
>>739042870older generations were right to call out modern mediums as retarded. look where we are now. better tamagotchis double the size of manhatten, sucking dry water and energy sources so idiots can create the worst of slop, just so technocrats can implement their control grid on tax payer dime
>>739034367it's all just spyware now since adware is so obvious and intrusive and people get rid of it. And spyware basically has widespread commercial approval because nobody gives a fuck how the data was acquired, they'll buy it anyways.
>>739051695As someone who has built computers and had to pick up a wrench-turning job to keep food on the table during COVID (because fuck, man, COVID sucked), it genuinely felt like fucking nothing had changed. If you wouldn't fix the car that way and you knew how to fix it, WHY DID YOU BRING IT TO ME YOU FUCK
>>739048587I have no horse in this race but the truth.
>>739031068Entitlement. My father's motto is "I paid for it, it better work!". Usually delivered in my ear, shouting.
>>739053353If those pizzas are good enough for rats, seagulls and crows, they're good enough for me.
>>739052552They have shared phones now. Shared as in>mommy give me your phone so I can play games on itThe biggest milestone in a modern child's life is the day they get their own personal phone, unlocking an endless flood of pornography and toxic social media.
>>739052552Computers are way too essential today to be something of a "family computer"Think of it like phones.>wired phone on the desk or wall, anyone who is at home answers it>mobile phone gets invented>grown up men carriy mobile phones, shit is purely for business at first>tech advances, becomes cheaper>women get their own, start yapping to no end>mothers inevitably want their children to be reachable, so children get phones now too>now everyone except literal fossils have a phonein same way it was with PC:s>wired PC on the table in the living room or "dad's office">laptop gets invented>grown up men carriy laptops, shit is purely for business at first>tech advances, becomes cheaper and internet becomes faster>little nerdy kids and gamers are enamored by it's potential for entertainment>dad needs his PC for actual important shit, so he gets (or the children/teens save up) for PC just for themselves>schools make IT classes>fast forward 10-20 years and literally everyone needs a PC/smartphone for like 90% of modern day living
>>739034367Viruses in the past were obvious because they were made by enthusiasts/hobbyists that essentially just wanted to test their abilities by seeing if they could break security, as well as gain some form of notoriety by having their work spread as far as possible. That's why you had viruses that did funny things like took control of your mouse cursor, or created popups with music and images, or redirected you to some guy's fan page. That's why boomers in the past knew you had a virus, the virus made it obvious. Viruses nowadays are profit driven. They're less about "damaging" a computer and more about stealing valuable information. That's why the most common viruses are infograbbers that steal session tokens allowing bad actors to access any accounts you're currently logged into, bypassing any kind of 2FA. The point of these viruses is the exact opposite of those from the past, they want to be as stealthy as possible to remain on a machine as long as possible in order to steal as much info as possible. Another kind of virus that wants to stay hidden are the crypto or botnet kind of viruses that want to use your computer's processing power without you realizing it. There's probably thousands of people infected with these kinds of viruses and they don't even know.
>>7390310681. Being a good parent means being a good leader.2. Most people are horrible leaders and will assume that anyone they have authority over is a pawn that they can lord over.3. Parents have authority over kids and see them as dumb cretins that can never be better than them.4. Kid, being a product of the times, learns something that the parent is incapable of grasping.5. Parent will try to lord over their kid, and will do so by pointing at that which they don't understand.In short: it's retards being retards and pulling their own kids down into the crab bucket.
>>739040440There's plenty of serial killers around these days, they're just not on the tv anymore.
>>739030835Every boomer heard about it on the News (their god) via television, AKA the central object of boomer's worship.
>>739043678>Anon! Your 4D VR Hyperexperience gave the computer a virus!
>>739042640Things were just built differently back then
I didn't have those kinds of experiences but at one point my sister and mother thought that me playing tf2 would turn me into a school shooter. I was very bewildered by their pestering and shaming. It stopped after my older brother heard about it and called my mother and sister retards. Later on my father learned about what had happened and just said>shoot up a school? with what? My hunting shotgun? What kind of an idiot shoots up a school with a double barrel shotgun?
Be honest, how many of you were scared shitless when you first saw this pop up on the family computer.
>>739049430>but my brother who is only a year and half younger than me being barely more tech literateDespite what most anons in this thread say, it's not just boomers. Most people are tech illiterate and don't actually own a PC in their home. They'll have a phone and maybe some shitty chrome book or user-friendly laptop. If you ask a 15 year old today to install a mod on PC using a file system, or "copy/paste, undo the paste, and cut/paste a paragraph and then find and highlight a single word with only the keyboard", they'll fail and not even try.
>>739056243This. 1990~2000 computer viruses were in your face, forcing constant scat porn pop ups while your computer was running to reap in ad revenue.Modern virus know that crypto farming and shit makes more money and is less noticable so you just get bitcoin miners that lag your computer to shit hidden from view instead now.Ransomware... Ransomware has never changed.
>>739047518>fullscreen application has a big EXIT button at the bottom of the screen>can't figure out how to close because there's no red X in the top right>CTRL+ALT+DEL>log out>log back in so the program isn't running anymore>do this every time he opens the programHow the FUCK can you know how to CAD to shut down all running programs yet NOT know how to alt+f4 close the window? How the actual living fuck
>"anon, I was browsing some shady websites and now the computer has a virus. fix it for me."my dad was alright
>call friend >ask him to play some CS 1.5>*silence*>I can’t bro>why not?>my dad downloaded more porn again and crashed my compI couldn’t stop laughing but also feeling very sad for my friend
my parents weren't tech illiterate so I thankfully never had to have this conversationI did silently shit myself when I realized my hidden porn folder wound up disappearing though. we never spoke about it
>>739031068Playing devil's advocate a bit here, it can make the child feel more appreciated and like they're good at something, so I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, regardless of the motivations. My parents and especially my dad would almost always go to me for help with stuff, and possibly partially due to this, my brother kind of turned into the personification of learned helplessness. Now they have to pretend and ask him for help even when they might not really need it, just to shake him from his passivity and make him feel a bit better about himself.
>dad always had a stick up his ass over video games>would yell at me if I played them “for too long”>would also get mad if I brought my gba during a long car ride>but if I watched tv for hours on end it was a-okay with him
>Virus: 1998>Computer is infested with popups or just runs really slow>Sometimes possible to undo yourself by deleting some exes that run at startup>If not, then reinstalling Windows usually does it>Worst case scenario, you take it to the local PC repair shop, pay $60 and get them to wipe everything for you>Virus: 2026>You've lost access to your bank accounts, email accounts, and everything you need access to to live in current society >Reinstalling Windows is just the first step, and there's no guarantee you'll get everything since it might have embedded itself in your hardware or BIOS>You can never be 100% sure you're safe on that machine ever again, the only guarantee is buying a whole new rig>Worst case scenario, you're out tens of thousands of dollars from your bank account you might never get back, as well as hundreds of hours of your time trying to regain access to your critical accounts, or even having to start over with new onesComputers were a mistake
>>739030617teachers at school always blamed browser runescape for everything. decades later you realize old people are often quite retarded
>>739059392>videogames are new and scary>I grew up with TV, it's safethat's really all there is to it.
>not a single mention of sickHoly fuck did you guys forget the classic>too sick for school, too sick for vidya!
>>739030826>anon is a porn addict so blames his dad of being a porn addict
ITS YOUR FAULT THE COMPUTER IS SLOW
>>739059890>but mom, the playstation can't catch my flu virus>DON'T GET SMART WITH ME
>huh it says here INSTALLED AT (when he was at the computer) FROM (porn site)
>>739060294what the flying fuck is this girl doing?
>>739060673Dipping
>>739042809Harsher punishments and greater / faster spreading awareness have pretty much pushed amateur & prankster malware out of the zeitgeist, meaning if you're going to do it these days you might as well be getting paid in some way. No more buttogeddon virus that replaces all windows SFX with fart noises and your cursor with a bare ass or whatever.
To this day, after 20 years, my mom still believes that the legal copy of Morrowind that she bought at a regular store in front of me, was "giving us viruses".>I TOLD YOU TO DELETE THAT FUCKING MORROWINGNever did, btw.I recently brought this game up in conversation while talking vidya with my nephew and she immediately turned her head toward me in anger, like "why would you recommend the game with viruses to my grandson". Just the word "morrowind" still pisses her off.Gen Xers are fucking retards.
>>739030617My brother used to accuse me of this when I would download demos and free games from a site called Pogo (A platform that's been owned by EA since 2001) because of the family computer performing terribly when the real reason was that they were always prebuilt pieces of shit you got for $600 at a Best Buy.Turned out the real reason was because he was downloading random Runescape bots and thought blaming me would get him out of trouble. I never touched Runescape because it looked boring, so he couldn't pin that on me.
>>739034367No, they still exist, modern systems are just a lot more advanced and there's a lot more technologies that get in the way. vx-underground has an entire zoo of malicious software that's still getting populated with newly found specimen.
>>739035078damn I miss limewire guise
>>739030617When I first heard the ICQ "uh oh" sound I thouhgt it was a virus and shit myself
>>739047218>niece buying pornhot
>>739030617my friends dad was like this. thank god mine left (kicked out for affair) never had to deal with that type of shit
>>739030835Why are you so desperate to relate to the generation before you
>>739060673Performative behavior for attention and likes because the video is staged
My dad was a huge macfag and ran a computer lab full of macs and was utterly convinced macs could never get viruses, but on windows you would get a virus within seconds of connecting to the internet so he only ever bought macs for the family and wouldn't allow me to get a PC because it was a "threat" to network security. Needless to say PC gaming was off the table for me.
>>739047218Women pay for porn? The internet told be they don't really get off to things that typically require more money and effort (i.e. visuals and convincing someone to take off their clothes.)
>>739031659your father was a vagabond retard who would sell his soul to get rid of his family to live alone and depndent of others so he could drink daily.
>>739034723your father probably never wanted to have a family in first place
>>739035078i would had cut any ties with them, and ruined her rep in front of everyone.
>>739042880I still have a .mpg file somewhere of the Halo commercial for Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS. And probably some fansubs from around the year 2000.
>that time I got a rogue antivirus from a fallout nv fan wiki ad>reformating didn't fix it>had to go into the registry and delete a bunch of stuff
>>739047518People just don't like to intuit things. I remember when I first got a work machine for my current job, which is on an OS I've never used (Windows 11, I went from 7 straight to Arch nearly 20 years ago now) I was able to interact with and figure out how it works in 10 minutes, plus more specific non-OS systems for the job itself. Meanwhile my coworkers who were also receiving the same machines and mainly used Windows devices all their lives, both older and younger than me, had no idea what they were doing.
>>739035318Lucky you, the only thing I did in my computer class was make post cards in Gimp and very basic coding in some educational program I can't remember the name of (VERY basic shit like rotate 90 right, go forward, rotate 90 left, go forward to make specific trails with the program's mascot). Thing had no safety measures so you could write a simple code like "go forward, change color", copypaste it 500 times and have the PC get stuck executing it for the next hour, which regularly lead to PCs getting force shutdown between classes because for some reason running the code turned off your mouse and the program wouldn't shut down with alt+f4. From the perspective of time, you could probably shut it down using task manager navigating it with keyboard after you set it to be always on top, but that was likely beyond the technical knowledge of our teachers
>>739047518>>takes a screenshot of google image results instead of right click > save asOkay but this is actually valid now because google gives dogshit .webp and .avif that I can't upload anywhere.
>>739059890getting sick as an adult hits differently from being sick as a kid.I caught a flu last year and it put me on my ass for a solid week. I barely had the energy to get out of bed. Hell I spent half that week trying to soldier through a work-from-home arrangement before tapping out and just letting my boss know I was taking sick days.
>>739063708Right click -> CopyWhen you paste it they become png and gif.
>>739063726When I get sick (once a year) I'm completely knocked out for 1 day and the days before and after that I feel like I've been beaten up with a baseball bat, muscles are so sore. By day 5 I'm mostly fine
>become the designated tech fixer for family, friends and acquaintances>get tasked with fixing the local church rectory PC that's borked>internet history is full of porn
>>739043000>>739056528All myopic nonsense. May as well say that the Internet should go away because a lot of people use it for dumb shit or to harm/control others. People abusing the tech is a problem with people. I bet you stupid fucks want to ban guns too because some people do dumb shit with them
>>739037854you had a good family unlike most of us, and your parents werent retards who hated being married or having kids.
>>739064389>May as well say that the Internet should go away because a lot of people use it for dumb shit or to harm/control othersYou're 100% correct, we should destroy the whole of it and return to pre-smartphone days when only nerds who gave a fuck were on the internet and normalfags were gatekept by needing to own a PC.
Actually that was elisha_cuthbert_beyonce_barelylegal_nude_hotsex_anal(live_rip).jpeg.mp4.exe (24Kb) that I downloaded from limewire
I remember my grandpa getting mad bc the new TV had a red light that drained extra electrical, same thing with any console or computer that had any little light.
The most computer-related trouble I ever got into was over a "Good Guy Greg" meme that my parents found while going through the family computer's search history.Since he's smoking a joint in the picture they immediately assumed that I was getting into drugs (despite being 10 or 11 at the time and not even knowing what a joint was) and I was essentially banned from using the computer or buying my own laptop until I moved out for college.Thankfully they let me get an iPod Touch because they didn't realize it could connect to the internet and I was still relatively free to look at memes and jack off to trashy music videos
>>739064536I had a lot of troubles too but I prefer to think of the good times
>>739053353>>739036868I kinda just meant vidya/tech related. You guys don't have to mention every embarrassing thing that happened to you
>>739039180>dad finds out about all you can eat chinese place>he thinks waiters going around bringing plates are superhuman or something>wants to go again today, brings me along so i can help with ordering stuff through the tablet>try to show him how to do it>it's literally just a list of items with a photo, a description, and a + button>anon, i don't understand, you do it>yeah ok, but tell me what you don't understand and i'll try to explain it to you>NO ANON I DON'T UNDERSTAND!
>>739030835They know the computer gets slower from something bad on the computer. They're just too technologically illiterate to understand that going to suspicious websites for whatever the fuck they're looking for isn't as safe and honest as they think it is. So obviously it has to be their kid who doesn't know any better.
>>739047156It's funny that people who identify themselves as "anti-progressive" are often blindly in favour of technological progress, even when it does more harm than good for humanity.AIbros are like the boomers who defended leaded gasoline as their brain matter plummeted due to lead poisoning.Is AI liked that much by the average consumer? Or is it just shoved in their face by an industry desperate to make their money back? The way it is shoehorned into everything when no one asked it, often to the detriment of the main product. Can you say with a straight face that Windows 11 is better off for using AI code?
>>739030731Learning this simple trick was the only reason I could stay sane in my household back in the day
>>739062757I fucking hated those commercials with a passion.
>>739042880A copy of nurse nikutai kaizo karte from hongfire in 2005.
>>739065498>>anon, i don't understand, you do it>>yeah ok, but tell me what you don't understand and i'll try to explain it to you>>NO ANON I DON'T UNDERSTAND!My parents are getting older and this is infuriating. Every time I visit them I'm put into this Lynchian tech-support role. >Okay, it should have sent you a confirmation email>WHAT'S THAT? HOW DO I DO IT?>Just open your email>HOW DO I DO THAT?>Just... click the big mail button right there? How do you check your email when I'm not here?>I DON'T KNOOOOW, DO IT FOR ME!They're still mentally sharp in every other sense, I genuinely can't tell if it's weaponized incompetence or what. They have fucking Chromebooks, which are set up so that an illiterate African child or space alien could intuit how to use it.
>>739065498>Try to give boomer dad a laptop because he's all crippled up from gout and can't go fishing anymore>Yeets into a wall within ten minutes in a fit of lead poisoned boomer tard rageI miss him to be honest. He was far from even the top twenty worst boomers I ever met.
>>739060294Grabbing the tapioca bubbles out of her bubble tea. Weird thing is these normally come with extra thick straws so you can suck them out.
>>739039180i already called my mom out for her blatant bullshit scam of unplugging devices to claim they are broken just to get me to come over and waste my timeit didn't happen more than three times before i was fucking livid tired after work and would have rather been at home i just left without addressing anything and started ignoring those texts and calls.in her own mind the printer is "always" broken but after i just started refusing to help with anything hmm suddenly things don't get randomly unplugged anymore what a shocking coincidence.even worse is the wave your hand over your head thing she does when i try to explain the simplest tasks, i've had enough. never again. imagine if i did that to you every time you spoke. i was working in IT at the time in an environment that was already not very professional so i had zero patience for this type of thing. those types of people get their tickets buried and ignored until they learn some fucking respect and stop raising the same issues time and time again.the female mind has been>call man to fix problemthroughout all of history and for their entire lives so they can't help it, technology has been no exception
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>>739064189could be worse>work retail at phone shop>fixer guys in the backroom have told me that browsing through the files of a device is a time-honored tradition of passing the time, petty gossip and sometimes genuine effort to find out what's wrong>weird guy wants his phone fixed>hear "oh noo..." and "jesus christ" from the backroom>phone contains dozens of gigabytes of scat porn with curiously young-looking girls
>>739030835Most people are pretty tech illiterate, my dad on the other hand did some programming in college and helped me build a PC as a kid so he was actually far more advanced than me growing up. He also introduced me to Diablo and Doom. Absolute W , dad. You deserve that bottle of high shelf whiskey im getting you for father's day
>>739050616>fixing up computer problems for sweet geriatric neighbour>absentmindedly open chrome history because i needed to find a page that was open earlier>he was looking at actual bestiality written stories just before i arrived
>>739059486its pretty bad yeah
>>739046784Funny how you say the last part as a justification for your racism, but would never apply that to your own.
>>739062757Back in the Win95 days you really did get viruses just from connecting to the internet.
>>739066705w-what
>>739035541My ending was getting belted because I obviously downloaded viruses onto the family computer out of spite.
The only reason i am on my my mid 30s unemployed, without a college or even a good ed was my parents cheap everything for me while my asshole bitch whore of a old sister had everything delivered to her, now she is on her 40s and seething that she cant have kids, alao the bitch hates me since i was born because she thinks i was tje one who got the good stuff not her who is 10 years older than i, or the fact she used me to relate with the daughter of one of her ex bf, so she could marty and fuck off, or that she is tje readon of why my family became bankrupt because the retard fell for a restaurant scam.
>>739061343True, she has her uncle. Why would she need porn?
>>739031068You grew up during the internet age and don't understand how wrenching and bizarre it was for people who never had access to it before.If you were born in the 60s or 70s, everything was done on paper, or with phone calls. Computers were just fancy calculators for a long while, and even though early computers existed they were niche, and the providence of hobbiest dorks, viewed the same way being really into HAM radio would still be today.A lot of boomers and Gen X viewed technology as an annoying imposition that was fucking annoying and disruptive, the same way you probably feel being asked if you're asked to scan a code to access the menu at a restaurant: "This is fucking annoying and stupid."Or how I get pissed off with how LLMs are being forced into everything now. I don't want to fucking use Microsoft Copilot. It pisses me off and I refuse to integrate it into my lifestyle.My kids will eventually view my stubborn refusal to use this shit the same way I viewed my mom not being willing to use Email.Have the humility to recognize it as a preference with somewhat valid reasons supporting it, rather than just assuming the zeitgeist you grew up in is the end-all be-all of human civilization. There ARE tradeoffs that come with technology, they're just not relevant to you because you grew up after you didn't have a choice or the opportunity to see the world in any other way.
>>739036563I used to think that you need some special battery ro run computers, since my mom used to ground me by taking out batteries and disabling PC, when all she did was just flip the switch on the PSU
>>739038851You think because you don't have porn popups that you don't have any malware?
>>739067653anon, go home, you're drunk
>YOUR MOTHER AND I FOUND THIS IN YOUR ROOM>CARE TO EXPLAIN YOUNG MAN?
>>739038851Yeah because the only malware that exists are invasive pop-ups and ransomware. There's absolutely no such things as malware that's meant to run hidden in the background designed to log your personal info and shit or purely throttle the shit out of your hardware to mine crypto currency.
>>739036868>I saw someone choking on perfume and thought it was okay to consume the choking hazardEven common sense, it seems, it learned. Never stop learning anon
>>739067156Why did he do it? What was his motivation?
>>739068038I wish i was, then i am forced to post here with a shitty phone because my gpu is dead, and i cant buy a new one, the last 2 weeks made me realize that i am cursed, and everyone around me is more retarded that i am.
>>739068810He had enough of all the viruses spam and malware and decided on the final solution, at the end he calls his wife Linda to proudly share that he has fixed the problem.
>>739030617My alcoholic uncle thought I gave him a virus once by simply being on the same subnet as him. He ended up chopping the coax with a machete and running into traffic when the police came to get him.He ended up dying of stomach cancer 10 years later. Don't drink, kids.
>>739048540The diagnostic is most probably wrong. The kids are just ruined by their parents habits and behavior. Any child psychotherapy should be tailored to the parents behavior because until preschool, children are 100% their parents. Also you can't diagnose autism before age 3 or 4.
>>739069130parents, mainly at banana republics or states rather let the state do that, so they can party.
>>739067865A surprisingly sane and sensible post for this board
>>739045684Ah yes. The christkikes are totally not jew golems. Dumb fuck
>Dad was technologically competent and would pirate games for me>Mom was wary of tech but also a closet weeb so she tolerated it so she could "keep an eye" on me while I watched animeI thought my parents had issues growing up, it's genuinely horrifying to realize how good I had it compared to most
>>739037551Man, if I had a nickel for every time a customer knows the owner and thought they were entitled to shit because of it, I could probably buy the company and be the owner myself.
>>739038274I remember telling my dad what Steam was because he saw it on my desktop, and he couldn't wrap his head around the idea of such thing existing, he would always pirate every single game I ever had when I was a kid.Love you Dad! I still pirate everything else and always seed.
Is this a /g/ thread in disguise?
>>739068810Some when just want to watch the world burn.
>>739042640Nah, the XP machine I used as a kid got cannibalized for parts after I built my own back in 2014. That old dog put in so many hours on random MMO's and flash games, I kind of miss it.Replaced my 2014 build end of last year. I don't want to throw it away, but I also don't really know what to do with it.
>>739070163Not enough ai/loonix sloppa to be a /g/ thread
I will always appreciate my budd for taking the time to install Counter Strike in all the PCs in the lab.
>>739030750>"religious websites"You mean the excuse people use when they get viruses from porn sites?
>>739066825>could be worseDefinitely. The priests or altar boys or whoever was responsible were mostly into big bazongas if I remember correctly.I also did my fair share of snooping while de-lousing the computers I fixed. Think the most interesting thing I found was someone's teenage daughter was heavily into goth and had a ton of pics and videos from some kind of vampire cosplay LARP meetups complete with drinking fake blood from chalices etc.
>>739030876Your pastor didnt care? No wonder europe is burning down now.
>>739031068All these replies when the truth is that our parents didnt need to get better at understanding computers. Most of our parents were still using old software from the late 80s and early 90s at work even by the time they retired. And although their computers at home probably got better, most computers are fairly user friendly and you dont need to know much do basic tasks like searching the web or writing something out on Word which is what boomers used the PC for at home 90% of the time. Even if the PC didnt run super well or had a ton of pop-ups it could still function well enough to do what they needed. They also had us to help them as we were naturally more tech savvy then they were so they didnt have to really learn the ins and outs of their PCs.
>>739042880if talking about this site, it would be this pic
>>739031068>I had a phase when I was in high school where I thought "fuck everyone else, don't bother me">was a dick to everyone for really no reason including my family members>mom asks me for help making an email >the exact words I said were "that's not my fucking problem" and I walk off to my room >thought I was badass>she starts cryingThis still haunts me.
>>739072459Did you manage to kill Chaos?
>>739030835?????retard
>>739072459:(you regret it though so that's good
>>739034612it was surreal to suddenly see everyone on the internet at all times even those who avoided it before. What was the breaking point? 2012? I think that was the year smartphones overtook computers and ruined the internet
>>739072459If your mom's still alive, apologize and give her a hug. Do something nice for her!
>>739062757Dad also became a macfag, but, to his credit. The Mac he gave me lasted a decade and never had a catastrophic issue outside of me desperately trying to play games that the pc could in no way handle leading to crashes.Still when the mac could no longer possibly run new games I built my own PC that destroyed my Dad's mac but felt no glee from it.
>>739058509Dylan Klebold.
>>739047931No, but I'd sure as hell hope that they know the bare minimum basics of how to operate them.
>>739042640Oldest I've got is a NAS from 2013 that I threw 32GB of RAM into plus a new power supply and a 6600XT. It's also the fastest machine I own but I keep it in the basement because it's noisy. I stream games from it to my laptop upstairs and it works pretty well.
Entire thread is off topic but anons will use "off topic" as an excuse to report threads about wanting sex with women. They target furry threads especially hard.
>>739067865but you DO understand what Copilot/ChatGPT is and how to use it and (hopefully?) understand where it can be good and where it's bullshit even if you avoid it. Boomers don't even TRY to understand anything having to do with technology
>>739034367there is like a new supply-chain attack every week now with credential stealers because pwning developers/companies is much more profitable than trying to ransom retarded boomers
>>739076281They literally don't. You know how many people drive cars with an automatic transmission with both feet?
>>739076585Understanding where it can be good and where it's bullshit is completely beyond the capacity of anyone below the age of 25. To them, it's just sapient AI that's always right. See how many retards will unironically post Grok/GPT screenshots as an authoritative source even here.They think it's alive, and they think it's genius. Despite the fact that what they're reading is just common "knowledge" distilled from posts literally scraped from reddit, they get fucking confused when you don't take its word for shit.Knowing this and understanding this unironically reveals me as a an unc. Kids practically worship that garbage and can barely read or think for themselves, yet they'll call you stupid for not just letting Google think for you.
>>739030617Well... they were right. Not because of games per se, but downloading stuff in general.You kids have it easy with torrents, moderated forums and double-checked private trackers.The amount of unwanted stuff I got from the limewire and e-mule days was insane.
>>739034367For personal PCs? Not unless you do something dumb. The real attention is all on businesses. Our work network had to stop people making bookings from abroad entirely just because it was getting flooded with attacks.
>>739078691>Knowing this and understanding this unironically reveals me as a an uncthen I will gladly join you in being an unc I am 28
>>739030617>delete c:\here, i fixed the puter
>>739030731My dad actually did this and then told me he deleted my games off the PC.
>>739030876Our pastors want to know where we find the good shit.
>>739030835They watched Fox News and some faggot kike on there told them everything their kids did on the PC would give it a virus. They didn't actually know what a virus is, just that they were bad.
>>739030617My parents would say this and then i see them opening every single chainmail they get.
>>739066825>take my phone in for repair>workers are gonna get blasted with a few hundred of tabs furry vore, pregnancy, mpreg, and unbirth
>>739078691>distilled from posts literally scraped from redditthis is the funniest shit to methe paragraph from the AI will literally have a link to the reddit source after it, which shows it's just a single opinion post some redditfag posted 8 years ago and people just take it as gospel because it was the only piece of data the AI could scrape
>>739058940that's what I'm saying, I don't get it man>>739063708I just copy paste into MS paint
>>739030617Sorry, dad. I'll fix it>*reinstall windows deleting all the family photos again*
>>739076585>Boomers don't even TRY to understand anything having to do with technologythey do to some extent, but the key point is that technology is smartphones which most boomers/gen x have and can use at least somewhat decently, even my luddite father who never used a computer my entire life switched to one and can use apps. but ironically enough this allowed said age groups to completely skip over learning anything more complex computer wise. like if I threw my father in front of a desktop he'd be downright hopeless
I think one time I saw my cousins history and it was a lot of monster girl hentai. Kind of based honestly.
>>739042640Currently posting from a nearly 15 year old thinkpad
>>739031124You could just put a password in the bios and they'd never be able to use it regardless of any formatting.
>>739042640There are businesses that still handle their computing needs with decades old XP machines. The secret that big tech doesn't want zoomers to know about is that as long as they don't need any updates, computers can just work forever.
>>739047931This would be equivalent of manually grabbing your windshield wipers to wipe your windshield instead of just pressing the windshield button
>>739057105I still have a flip-phone, I don't even have a smartphone. Life would be great if fucking grocery stores didn't require me to download an app to buy shit, or the fucking buses let me just use cash instead of an app to pay, or restaurants had actual goddamn physical menus instead of QR codes at every table. Not having access to a smartphone has made me understand the mindset of Uncle Ted far greater than actually reading his manifesto ever did. I mean, I'm also doing this by choice so it's really my fault in the first place, but I fucking hate smartphones so goddamn much.Kids these days growing up with smartphones are fucked. Society relies way too much on tech now
>>739072459Based edgelordDo you still paint your nails black too you fucken fruitcake?
>>739057356apparently smart TV's can also get infected with botnet viruses
My game >is< the virus
>>739035801>Eat their offspring, castrate the males>Poisoned by leadHmmmm they really were the eternal Saturnians all along
>>739072459*tears and sobbing* "How did I raise such a faggot!?"
>>739031124>Only 4 replies>None of them even recognise it
>>739081640This is the same for late zoomers and alphies. Can use a touch screen phone/tablet just fine, but if it has anything to do with the file system, even on their device, they get all doe eyed and think of it as some kind of magic.
>>739082201There was a payment outage a few years ago in Canada that affected all debit and credit systems and it nearly ground the entire country to a halt. You couldn't even take out money from an ATM. If you didn't have physical cash on hand you literally couldn't buy anything or make any sort of transaction. It only lasted for just over an hour, but it showed how absolutely fucked we'd all be if these systems decide to fail one day.
>dad had mountains of cp in the desktop, inside a folder unironically named "dad">computer was constantly ravaged by random viruses from all the sites he visited to download it>i just used the computer for games>he never blamed me for anything, every time it broke he just asked a coworker to wipe it clean, he even reinstalled my games while he was at it>eventually get my own computer, dad stops using them altogether
>>739066664do at least visit your mom from time to time?
>>739082727>dad had mountains of cp in the desktopI think there's something you should have been more concerned about than just getting your own computer
>>739030617>mom complains PC is slow>turns out shes an impatient fuck and spam clicked the internet browser a trillion times, opening a shit ton of windowsEvery fucking time
>>739059486you forgot the worst part>you didn't even download the virus on accident>windows defender, the fucking anti virus gave you the virusI LOVE INDIA I LOVE JEET CODE
works on my machine
>>739082660how are we the only generation to know how to use a keyboard when AI can do things its own way now.
>>739065498I unironically look like that and say that (and also can taste things merely by making it up)
>norton anti virus>PC Matic>Avast (?)all malware.
>Look at porn>Mom finds porn>Assumes it was dad and blames him>Dad comes to me after clearing things up with her>"Don't do that again but also here is how to delete your browser history"I love my dad.
>>739042880Shitty softcore hentai porn from 2006. It's on a back-up hard-drive. For whatever reason the only files I ever backed up as a kid were porn, I just let everything else go, dunno why.
A lot of pathetic soillennial manchildren itt
>>739082703My aunt used to work at an airlines company 40 years ago. Last year there was a Microsoft update, or Crowdstrike update or something, and it fucked up all the airline's computers for a few days, and they couldn't access any of their servers or programs. We were trying to take a flight and my aunt was so fucking pissed at all the workers who didn't know how to do their jobs without a computer. She started yelling at them saying stuff like "Get they hell out from behind that desk, I can do your fucking job for you. You know how we ran the airlines 40 years ago? We got a pen and a pad and we wrote it down. How come you can't do that now? What's wrong with you?" goddamn was she brutal.
>>739082910How is that even possible?
>>739083420I don't know why computers are still pre-loaded with McAfee anti-virus these days. It does literally nothing
>>739083719She's right but also the systems are all connected to computers nowadays I doubt even if the employees knew how to do their jobs with pen and paper that they'd be able to safely get the planes running again.
>watch videos>"when performing maintenance on a PC unplug it and hold down the power button to discharge residual power">okay, sounds reasonable>fastforward>"discharging" irreparably broke 3 power supplies and fried a whole motherboard>1 power supply audibly popped and exploded white powder onto the floor when turning it back on>I still see modern videos telling people to discharge consoles/PCs when repairing and get pissedToo retarded?
>>739083824the exploit was called red sun I think, but basically windows defender would catch the malicious file before you actually ran it and quarantine it but by doing so it did some weird cloud shit where it basically ran itself through windows defender to get higher system access, there was a bunch of zero days that some security researcher dumped because microshit refused to do anything about them when they told them about the exploits
>>739083825McAfee is specifically for clueless boomers that would download "cutepuppy.jpg.exe" from some popup on their adware infested computer. It doesn't stop sophisticated attacks. Though even then Windows Defender is probably enough for those people.
>>739036563I didn’t understand that 0-99 was the first century and thought humanity collectively agreed to call the current century the 21st because technology progressed faster than we anticipated so we had 21st century tech even though we were still in the 20th century (2000s)I also thought BC meant before Christ’s birth and AD meant after death, and I wondered what we used for events that happened during the years he lived
My dad always brought me pirated games and rom CDs. Only got virus twice off emule.
>>739083719the register at McSpankies is not just a calculator, it also logs historical receipts for being able to do accounting at the end of the day and it also is used to track inventory consumption.so much of the modern workplace is tied into computers that most things genuinely cannot be done by hand the way they used to be. At best you'd have to key in information once systems are back online and that's assuming you have a smaller scale non-interlocked system like warehousing, rather than trying to coordinate a fuckton of planes.your aunt is right about people needing to know how to do their jobs at a core level but some things you cannot realistically separate from the computer systems that everything runs on now.
>>739037854No fucking way we're you playing wc2 at 3 years of age.
>>739084962"playing" is a gross overestimation, but, yes, I was. The mission was almost won and I just had to click some units to finish off the enemies base.
>>739058543>Need basic 'puter certificate for curriculum, nevermind fact that my previous job was dealing with office work whole fucking day>See people younger than me completely struggling with basic windows stuff and typing with 2 fingers.Man that hurts, and I'm not even that old.
I remember destroying 2 computers because I had a porn addiction starting at age 11, because I knew how to get around parental controls>Dad's at work, night shift>Go onto his computer>Jag off for hours and hours>Looking for the right picture to nut to>Click on one>Computer is now infested with about 16 different adwares that prevent the keyboard or mouse from working>Go to sleep in a panic>Dad comes home the morning after>Logs onto his computer>"ANOOOON!!!!!"The sounds of fury from my father echoed throughout the house. What's worse is that he thought I was into fart porn because a website called "Farthammer" was the only site that wasn't blocked where I can see tits and women getting fucked.
>>739030835They don't, that's the meme...
>>739085327Holy moly
