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My partner and I fit in this range. We don’t have kids, but there is the offhand occasion where we need to print something so we just do it at work.
And if worst comes to worst, we have a shitty old cheap Canon that works if you turn off all the lights, light certain candles, and draw a penter-gram on the floor while we hold hands in the center of the room while saying a quiet prayer under our breath.
Tbf printers are the most unnecessarily complicated pieces of shit ever
I'm lucky that the people in my life do try some basics before asking me and tell me what they tried. Sometimes things just seem to start working when I arrive, so I just play along with it and say the printer was intimidated into working by my mere presence.
Oh, you have that aura too? I like it in that it helps me avoid spending time on fixes, but it's annoying too because deep in my mind I wonder what really went wrong.
Same. What do you mean your device was suddenly incapable of performing one of its most basic functions for an hour and it magically got better just before you handed it to me? I don't have panacea NFC tags embedded in my skin.
I don't have panacea NFC tags embedded in my skin.
Right. 😉
The printers are playing the long game.
I've had users who had equipment that worked when I came in to help them with the problem. I think what actually happens is that the user, possibly unconsciously, realizes that they have to pay attention to the UI, because I will, and does the action to make the equipment work the way it's supposed to work.
The panic my coworkers get in their eyes when they pull me from a task just to show me something that suddenly works for them is always funny.
“This was totally not working for 10 minutes straight.”
I'm lucky that the people in my life do try some basics before asking me and tell me what they tried.
If not, you raise them to do that.
That's why you give them a laptop and a Gentoo install iso on a bootable pen drive before they can talk.
"Billy, did you use genkernel rather than manually configuring and building your kernel?"
"Yes, Dad..."
"You know what that means."
"Yes, Dad. No allowance for two weeks."
When we're all retired and dying off, the world will regress to the pre-industrial age it seems.
At least we can depend on our AI carebots to get the dosage right 60% of the time.
Had to teach our seniors to use alt+tab, Had to teach our interns to use alt+tab
