>hear boomer dad calling my name
>go over to his computer
>see he's chatting with a pajeet tech support
>he asks me if the operating system is windows 10
>say yes
>he says his antivirus is saying he isn't protected
>look at monitor
>he's on the bitdefender website
>pajeet's message pops up and asks him to look at the installed programs and tell him what bitdefender apps he has installed
>he gets to the apps after I guide him to them
>starts typing back to pajeet
>maybe five words per minute
>I ask him if he's tried opening the program
>he points to the website
>this is it isn't it?
>tell him it isn't
>pajeets messages him again
>tells him to open the program
>it opens and says he is protected
>dad starts typing back
>five words per minute again
>I tell him his computer is protected
>he still doesn't get off tech support with pajeet
>tell him I have to go shit
Anyone else have bad experiences with boomers and tech
Hear boomer dad calling my name
At least your dad is still alive user. You should enjoy your time together.
No. I give them all Ubuntu or macOS and they're fine. Sounds like you just have a wintoddler problem. Try eliminating the source rather than they symptoms.
/thread
also, OP is a retarded faggot
I've honestly thought about deleting the operating system's off their computers and just installing arch. I guarantee they won't notice the difference.
I'm pretty sure he is happy with his dad, and these type of problems happen all the time
Stop being such a faggot
I installed mint of my moms laptop. She noticed her laptop was faster, but nothing else.
mint is based for normie users
Mint is just Ubuntu with an extra layer of crap.
Cringe
fuck off with your footfag shilling. $20 bucks says I'd have to spend days trying to explain how gnome's UI works. fuck that
mint's UI is basically reskinned windows 7, you could sit any tech illiterate wintoddler in front of it and they would get it in 15 seconds.
I never mentioned GNOME.
Tons, which is why I stopped being the tech support guy. That and the fact that I no longer live in that damned house.
My nigga. Installed arch on my dad's, still running flawless
>you build computers, right user? Can you come over and fix my tv?
Fucking hate that shit. I used to show people my talents and in my old age I decided it was best to just act like a dumbdumb so I don't get asked to do anything.
>dad has two google accounts on phone, one with [email protected], the other with [email protected]
>try to explain to him that he backed up all of his stuff to the yahoo one
>he can't comprehend a username with google having @yahoo.com in the name
>finally give up after a few minutes of going over the same explanation
Like father, like son, it seems. At least you won't end up like this.
fpbp
Gnome is a DE, you can install it on Mint if you want and use it.
Debian and Ubuntu
>Debian and Ubuntu
No. Ubuntu is Debian with a layer of user friendliness. Mint takes Ubuntu and puts useless shit on it. That's the point.
>pajeet calls mother's friend and says her credit card is not secure
>tells her to give him the card number, the date and the three pesky digits on the back to make sure it works
>she does
>Get a new client
>60 year old company owner
>Has not had anyone in IT for years
>Last IT guy "had some problems"
>There's a NAS storing literally everything
>No one has credentials for it
>Web UI errors out at boot and does not load
>Take it to the workshop to migrate data out of it
>Find single 160 GB drive inside
>Picture related
Almost 12 years.
holy shit that's in hours? fuck me no wonder
That is in hours. Here's another one.
>tfw furry is experiencing a bad time
Good things happen sometimes.
So your dad was scammed in front of you and you didn't do anything?
No one's having a bad time! I'm really relieved that the drives hadn't failed, and rolling out fresh hardware has been fun and educational.
fuck me and fuck having to deal with these people
godspeed
This. Spend some quality time with your dad and/or help him with his computers dumbass. It cost you literally nothing but some 5-10 minutes while it costs him hour+ of worry with pajeets. Plus if you work out the computer for him, he'll be thankful and fix you god damn car.
Holy moly
fpbp but show your dad a good article about scammer instead of being autistic
You've done a very poor job of education your "father".
And after he lavished his hard-earned money on getting you where you are today.
Well, on a tech scale I am actually glad to here this. But on a opinionated scale, kind of dissapointed. I was hoping most files were corrupted so that I could epic nae nae on you.
he doesnt do shit
my sister is just exploitative, she would call me on my phone telling me things were broken so that i would come look at it. but when i looked at it it was just unplugged or its just turned off and she didn't feel like getting up or something equally retarded. i stopped responding to her requests and sure enough she gets her boyfriend to plug cords in for her
>try to tell her what things are and how they work and so on so she can deal with problems herself
>i dont caaaare
You just let your dad get scammed, you fucking moron
This, but not everyone likes their parents
my boomer dad ascended to zoomer status - he spends way more time on his phone than I do
(probably flirting with hoes)
>Linux and MacOS are for retards and boomers who can't handle Windows
I see now.
>can't handle Windows
You shouldn't have to constantly work against an OS. That just means the OS sucks. Which Windows does. It's a liability.
Sounds to me like she was trying to make a reason for you guys to spend a little time together.
It's OK, furfag hate stopped being cool 10 years ago.
She just wanted to meet you user and see how you were doing.
FFcossag?
Hello.
One time my dad believed that his computer was infected. He was tricked by some shitskin who pretended to be Microsoft tech support, had him go to a website and they hijacked the PC using what I think was a RAT. They then locked down the PC and wanted $500 to unlock it. I wish I was older at the time or I’d have just reset the password and told them them and their pajeet scammers to build a toilet. Instead my dad wiped the HDD, can’t remember if we had any important files on there or not. Learned to never trust the dumb fucker with anything computers again. The irony is he used to run a PC store in the 80s and hosted tech classes at a business college in the 90s to early 00s.
you can use cinnamon on whatever distro you want. you shouldn't pick a distro for the DE
rip
fpbp
i don't mind losing 2 neurons if it'll make you happy and even laugh
>a maxtor that did not fail
truly a wonder
now its necessary to fight off a degenerate
So my uncle got Internet almost a year ago and he calls everything Internet-related "Google".
>web browser = google
>web site = google
>search engine = google
>url bar = google
>youtube = google
>facebook = google
>flash player = google
>mail = google
>firefox = google
>chrome = google
>internet = google
>internet explorer = google
The only thing he knows to do on a computer is click a web browser icon. He's even afraid to change the background.
>he is 35 years old
WAS HE RAISED IN APPALACHIA
DID HE HAVE RUNNING WATER AND ELECTRICITY GROWING UP
He had electricity but usually no running water (water system where he lives is very, very bad).
TEACH HIS BOOMER YOKEL ASS HOW TO USE A COMPUTER
>my dad saw me using arch
>says RedHat is better
>tfw my dad says Linux is faster but he's still on windows 10
brainlet here, what i'm looking at?
A HDD running for 90000 hours without stop.
He doesn't want to learn anything actually.
When he got his computer I installed Firefox for him and left home page as it is, thinking he'll like it because he can search + access usually frequented websites quickly. But a month later he tells me how this "mozilla" thing is bad and that he wants "google" (probably google.com, since he calls almost everything google) for a home page. Ok, then. When I came there to set home page to google.com his start page was full of porn ("it's a virus!"). After I set his home page to google.com and asked him is it ok and he said that's what he wants so I left it that way. Later I've noticed that he always clicks back arrow until it is grayed out because he probably thinks that will delete porn.
Recently this PC died and he got a used one that had Chrome preinstalled. He still doesn't realize that his start page displays most frequented websites below Google logo. His history is full of porn and he still clicks back arrow until it is grayed out.
How is it cringe, dear mollycoddled child? I lost my father when I was 11. What the other user wrote is anything but cringe. Get your head straight.
She was hitting on you, you idiot.
>A relative calls, sounding happy and excited. Get invited for dinner. "I'm so excited to see you! We haven't seen you in such a long time!"
>Go to dinner.
>"user, so good to see you!"
>A few minutes later. "By the way, user, we have this problem with machines x, y, and z. Could you take a look?"
you fucking dolt, your sister clearly wanted to fuck you
>60 year old boss
>company mail filled with viagra spam everyday
>wants to check mail from home
>uses teamviewer to open it from company desktop
>"user you gotta find us a solution so that the Teamviewer doesn't close every three minutes. It ain't very convenient."
ok boss
>he is 35 years old
sadly a lot of people are this clueless, no matter what age they are.
I didn't think it was possible to be that much of a retard, and still be considered human
literally nothing wrong with carabiners
I'm waiting for my dad to retire in 2 years, I'm gonna buy him a new truck for when he goes fishing.
Sucks that I'm too busy with work, I have no time to hang out with my dad.
this
stupid ungrateful child
i'm 31 years old.
i'm afraid he's just a fucking moron.
This. My dad died last year. I would gladly fix some simple tech issues again if that's all it takes.
so you're dad is Jow Forums?
Gnome is like the simplest DE
>
Almost 30 year old boomer here.
He's just an idiot or a literal tech illiterate.
my 87y granpa uses ubuntu on his thinkpad
everything works, occasionally I run sudo apt update && apt upgrade
>dad calls up, computer is fucked
>he drops it off
>10,000 toolbars
>reformat
>install ArchLinux
>compile everything from source
>get superior rolling release minimal system
>force all daemons and proessces, x windows, etc required to be manually started (like they SHOULD BE)
>return laptop in now working condition
>he calls up
>WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT WHAT DID U DO TO MY COMPUTER FUK U KID
Fucking old people, just die already.
i replaced all the boomers computers OSs in my family with ChromeOS, they been using them like this for almost 2 years
cloudready to be exact, shitty mid 2000s computers only used as facebook machines
can fingerless gloves ever catch a break
>>install ArchLinux
Why are you linux fags this autistic? Nobody likes your autism hobo system.
FPBP
Most of these are google user
Migrate them to office 365
Add barracuda
Ezpz
What does he do on the computer?
i already posted this in another thread but it belongs here as well:
>work as technical assistant for German boomer professor
>we use some HP core2duo machines with 4gb of ram at work
>ask professor if we can upgrade the machines because they are really slow and cant handle the CAD workload
>professor tells me we shouldnt spend money if its not necessary
>2 months later professor comes to the office really happy
>"hey user, look what the deans office allowed us to purchase"
>shows me a bill for 2000€ loudspeakers and an 8k TV that costs 4700€
>nobody in our office needs loudspeakers or a TV
fucking boomers, day of the pillow cant come soon enough
I don't get what this image means.
You could have been that boyfriend.
>APPALACHIA
I'm using this as the name for my new program manager.
I miss my dad
he reads news and watches internet TV
me too dude, i always get pretty sad when i hear people shit about their dads
I'd sell my soul for having a dad, no matter how shit he is, was, or could be
Atleast i'd have the chance to find peace
brehs...im gonna spend the evening with my dad today because of you
Cherish it user
Imagine being so insecure and useless you can't even help your pops out with his PC. Instead you just whimper in background and then calls him a boomer online.
Just copy paste this into your terminal emulator of choice:
yes | sudo apt purge gnome* && yes | sudo apt autopurge && sudo apt update && yes | sudo apt full-upgrade && yes | sudo apt install cinnamon
¨
Tbh.
you didn't read uncle ted. this quote is directed at you.