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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you don't understand how to do something, type the problem into YouTube, also its never too late to put money into a savings account

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

xkcd Tech Support Cheat Sheet

You were in grade school when this was made.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You realize 31 year olds were only 10 when YouTube came out? They have lived nearly their whole lives with it. Why do so many people under 30 think anyone over 30 is 50 years old?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude my mom is 60 and uses youtube all the time, why do people also think 60 is 89?

Now my (now dead) 89yo relatives? Yeah they didn't use youtube, one of them had a rotary phone until the phone company stopped supporting them in like 2009 and then he had no phone and no internet until the day he died. Had to drive to his house or send him a letter.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lmao i bet he was like "fuck those phone companies"

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

He was indeed lol. We bought him a tracphone too, and he refused to hook it up (or let us do so.) He was great lol.

[โ€“] nik9000 1 points 3 months ago

When someone is having a computer problem I ask them to restart first. Not because I think they don't know to do it, but just in case. Some people don't know. Sometimes people forget. Obvious advice is useful sometimes.