And looking for reasons to buy new versions of things: phones, laptops, gaming devices, etc. Bonus points if they’re on the edge of not being able to afford it at all.
My fucking d/gen mother had be coaxed into buying an $80 pair of shoes for my sister for Christmas but just bought herself a Switch and Hogwarts Legacy (bleh) just now. And now is trying to ask me questions about how to use it and “how to put games on it”. FUCK OFF. Fucking loser. She also refuses to put her hearing aids in so she wants me to not only thoroughly explain all of this, which she can’t be bothered to remember, but also to fucking impossibly boil it down to yes or no questions and simple statements.
It will be shoved into a drawer in 1-2 weeks after she realizes I can’t easily pirate more games for it or pirating games for it isn’t simple, free, and instantaneous. Also refuses to read or learn anything in video games and thus keeps getting “bored” of them because they require literally any effort.
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Her abused-by-abandonment dog just died 2 days ago. Was yelping in pain the last few days and I was like “something needs to be done here” before this happened. I’m so glad it seemed to have died in its sleep in its bed. But before – the last week or so – she just took her hearing aids out so we have to hear it suffer and she pretends, or is so vacuous that really, nothing is wrong to her.
My father and I had to go bury it while she huffs and puffs all day as a way to try to manipulate us into caring about her. Honestly surprised she didn’t call into work so she could be the ultimate hypocrite because she once told someone there (she handles scheduling there somewhat) that they should still come into work after their friend committed suicide.
Where are the “Life is great” freaks? Come on out and reveal yourselves. I will destroy you. I’m forced to live in this flesh prison so you dipshits can frolic in Omelas.
Pirating games on switch can be simple, free, and instantaneous if it’s an old switch and you can follow a simple online guide first but that’s beyond most boomers
Being “good with technology” is 90% looking things up and following instructions, and technology has only gotten easier to use over the years. The fact that so many boomers struggle with it tells me that they simply don’t want to take the time or care to do anything properly. All their talk about the laziness and entitlement of young people is projection.
Not quite this, but my dad will buy the absolute cheapest versions of things and get mad when I can’t get it to do the claims on the box. I’m sorry I din’t think this $25 smart watch is an actual replacement for the machine you use to measure blood pressure ;_;
I bought my dad airpods to go with his iPad, he never uses them and insists on using some cheap shit bone conducting headset thing that he wears wrong with the bone conduction pads over his ear holes.
I empathize with your dad on this, one, cannot stand how most earbuds plug up your ears. You might wanna get your dad more expensive bone-conducting headset, or at least open-ear earbuds
my dad also does this, and ngl it freaked me out a little bit when he decided to stick a banking app on an old oneplus 5T that didn’t even get security updates anymore, what’s worse he strongly refused the idea of me gifting him a newer phone, even a cheap-ish one. like i can afford it, god it’s no big deal.
I was going to say most banks probably don’t support older versions of Android for their apps, and realized he’s probably using a sketchy 3rd party app
maybe not in the states, that official banking app supports android versions all the way back to Android 6.0, the last android version supported by the OP5T is 10, so on that regard it was fine at least. you’d be surprised at how far back you can go compatibility-wise without breaking stuff with android’s first party compat libraries.
god if he was using a 3rd party app I would have fucking showed up at his doorstep at 12am and force him to update all his credentials.
Not quite the same thing, but my FIL tends to put zero research into buying new tech items and gets easily sold on whatever hunk of crap the Best Buy salesperson is pushing on them. Which leads to a lot of cheap crap that breaks down after a few years. The most confounding part is this is someone who was a high-powered tech CEO back in the 90’s, and it’s like “how the fuck did you get anything done in those jobs?”
Yup. Have one that expects me to teach them how to use something all the time. Doesn’t listen to or bother remembering anything I told them and so expects me to be on call to help them use it every time they want to use it.
Basically, they can’t be assed learning anything new and just expect me to do everything for them.
This is in stark contrast to how my grandmother aged, she was basically self-sufficient to the end. So It’s been strange watching a lot of boomers, who complain about my generation being too childish, act like dependent children themselves. I know that’s probably harsh, but it’s actually kind of scary.
My dad is annoyingly frugal, so he’ll live with fully obsolete hardware and he won’t even let me do a fresh OS install.
