mistersprinkles
Active Member
I've been the most knowledgeable computer user, and therefore, tech support for my family for the better part of two decades now and man, am I ever sick of it.
I never minded helping my grandfather, god rest his soul, because he was willing to learn. Some people though, like my mom, want everything spoon fed to them and don't want to learn anything.
Due to her work, my mom is in hotels every week and she had told me she wished she could access her netflix on any TV anywhere she went. She has an ipad, so, last year for her birthday, I bought her an outrageously overpriced (Really Apple? $50 for a dongle?) HDMI dongle for her ipad, along with a 2 meter HDMI cable.
She told me from the get-go that it wasn't working. She just couldn't get it to work. I explained the process to her many times (Really? WTH is the deal with people who can't hook devices up to televisions? What the actual frig?) but she couldn't get it to work.
The other day I was having technical issues with my HTPC which led me to hook her ipad up to the TV in the living room to watch this show we both wanted to watch. Unsurprisingly, it worked flawlessly. She was shocked that I had gotten it to work. Through some conversation I had discovered that she had been trying to plug the dongle directly into HDTVs. No HDMI cable. The HDMI cable WAS IN THE LITTLE TRAVEL BUNDLE I MADE FOR HER (FFS FML WTF) but she hadn't put 2 and 2 together the 300 times I had explained the process of connecting the ipad to an HDTV.
This frustrates me to no end. It's one thing to not know how to do something, but I think that the average person, when it comes to technology, borders on SEVERE mental retardation. I don't know if it's out of fear or what but this BS has to stop.
How these people remember to breathe and don't just asphyxiate and drop like flies all over the streets I do not know.
I never minded helping my grandfather, god rest his soul, because he was willing to learn. Some people though, like my mom, want everything spoon fed to them and don't want to learn anything.
Due to her work, my mom is in hotels every week and she had told me she wished she could access her netflix on any TV anywhere she went. She has an ipad, so, last year for her birthday, I bought her an outrageously overpriced (Really Apple? $50 for a dongle?) HDMI dongle for her ipad, along with a 2 meter HDMI cable.
She told me from the get-go that it wasn't working. She just couldn't get it to work. I explained the process to her many times (Really? WTH is the deal with people who can't hook devices up to televisions? What the actual frig?) but she couldn't get it to work.
The other day I was having technical issues with my HTPC which led me to hook her ipad up to the TV in the living room to watch this show we both wanted to watch. Unsurprisingly, it worked flawlessly. She was shocked that I had gotten it to work. Through some conversation I had discovered that she had been trying to plug the dongle directly into HDTVs. No HDMI cable. The HDMI cable WAS IN THE LITTLE TRAVEL BUNDLE I MADE FOR HER (FFS FML WTF) but she hadn't put 2 and 2 together the 300 times I had explained the process of connecting the ipad to an HDTV.
This frustrates me to no end. It's one thing to not know how to do something, but I think that the average person, when it comes to technology, borders on SEVERE mental retardation. I don't know if it's out of fear or what but this BS has to stop.
How these people remember to breathe and don't just asphyxiate and drop like flies all over the streets I do not know.
