What Made You GIVE UP on a Computer illiterate Person When You Were Trying to Help?

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🗓️ 18 October 2025

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0:00.0	What made you give up on a computer illiterate person who you were just trying to help?
0:06.5	Oh, this quote comes from my dear mother. It's not turning on now because you've downloaded
0:11.8	whatever that Firefox thing is. My aunt, I moved away a year ago to go work for a big
0:17.9	IT company. She wants to keep me updated on local news from back home.
0:22.5	Her process for giving me news articles from our local news website is mind-boggling. She first
0:28.2	prints off a news article from a website to her office copier. She then takes the printout,
0:33.2	puts it back on the office copier, scans it to PDF, and then emails the PDF to herself, then
0:39.0	forwards me, said PDF.
0:41.2	I tried to explain to her three or four times now how to copy a URL from her web browser,
0:46.4	paste it in her email, and send that to me.
0:49.1	But she insists that that's too complex, and she'll never be able to figure out how to do
0:53.0	that.
0:54.7	My boss calls everything from our website to our printers database.
0:59.1	We do in fact have a document database which we use, so every time she has an issue, I have
1:03.9	no freaking idea what she's talking about.
1:06.3	I can't connect to the database.
1:08.3	It might mean she can't print.
1:10.1	The database has crashed. Where being
1:12.1	hacked means that her computer is unplugged. There are similar people at my company who
1:16.5	refer to everything as the server. Is the server down means their screen resolution is set to
1:22.0	800 by 600. Is the server up? Means I've somehow erased my hard drive. And could you put it on the server
1:29.4	means why isn't the file magically appearing on my desktop? Reaching over my shoulder and
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