SON!! I broke the computer!!

[Eri]

Another one for the pile, my sister continually installs the other crap that comes with iTunes every time it has an update. She always has no idea why its there despite me telling her and showing her. She just goes "derp".

 

[Imsety]

Nothing immediately springs to mind, really. My father's a programmer, my mother's not too bad apart from having no idea how it all works, my sisters are both fairly sane. I'm usually called on when someone needs a new system, or some hardware upgrades, but apart from that everyone I know of is pretty knowledgeable about how to keep things working.

Only thing I can think of is a friend of mine. He's fairly okay with computers, but for some reason has the weirdest ritual for going to a website: He goes to Google, types the URL into the search box, and clicks on the first result...

 

[Eri]

He's fairly okay with computers, but for some reason has the weirdest ritual for going to a website: He goes to Google, types the URL into the search box, and clicks on the first result...

Weird..I know a couple of people who do that, Even if I point it out, they're just like "leave me alone!". Whatever floats your slow ass boat.

 

[Sneaky Paladin]

He's fairly okay with computers, but for some reason has the weirdest ritual for going to a website: He goes to Google, types the URL into the search box, and clicks on the first result...

Weird..I know a couple of people who do that, Even if I point it out, they're just like "leave me alone!". Whatever floats your slow ass boat.

I have a friend who does this too. It infuriates me watching him repeat this over and over...

 

[Blackdoom]

I remember my dad constantly saying that installing games makes the computer ran slower and blaming me for every single problem with the computer.
After I bought my own computer and removed everything I had on his computer and formatted it for him he still blames my games for his computer running slow and constantly claiming that OpenSUSE is a virus that is infecting his computer through our network.
One day I decided to see what he had been downloading to get the viruses and never again shall I do that.

 

[Eri]

I remember my dad constantly saying that installing games makes the computer ran slower and blaming me for every single problem with the computer.
After I bought my own computer and removed everything I had on his computer and formatted it for him he still blames my games for his computer running slow and constantly claiming that OpenSUSE is a virus that is infecting his computer through our network.
One day I decided to see what he had been downloading to get the viruses and never again shall I do that.

Technically, the more full your drive is the slower it'll run but I'm sure he didn't mean that and was talking out of his ass. Games or no, all the same when stored in memory.

 

[similar.squirrel]

When my mom is borrowing the computer to check some website, she types with only her index fingers. And it goes slooow. Always makes me cringe.

I see your mum index typing and raise you a dad as well. And they both like to have me check their typing for emails etc...sometimes one after and another. 2 emails can take away 30mins of my day

My mother works with a computer and still does that. Seeing it makes my bones itch. Also, her formerly white Mac is now a fetching shade of yellow-grey because she smokes like a chimney. Ugh.

Oh, and my dad hits his laptop whenever it's deemed to be running too slowly. Percussive maintenance. Really pisses me off.

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

Im always fixing the Tech stuff, AND blamed for the tech stuff when something happens, mostly by my sister. I tell her "No downloading, we have barely any bandwidth left" so she downloads and then in 10 minutes goes "WHY THE FUCK IS THE INTERNET SLOW? WHAT DID YOU DO?"

[facedesk]

 

[chris89300]

Thank god I'm an only child lol.
Why don't you guys just install parental protection or whatever it's called? Ban all downloads. Or make them work in a VM without them knowing?

 

[Eri]

I'd really like to hear more of these stories =D
I get a kick out of them, and possibly a bit of rage. Post moar <3

 

[TK421]

The only thing is that it took my mother a couple of weeks to figure out the concept of "tabs". Of course, she used to write computer programs so she kind of has a head start on most people her age.