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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 by ses1984 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:21AM (#20625373)
Very old folks can start to lose decision making capabilites. It has nothing to do with IT knowledge. It's why mostly old people fall victim to email and phone scams and refuse to believe the truth even after you show them mountains of evidence.

Is that ageism?

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 by eitland on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:32AM (#20625491)
The ones I know that has lost money or been close to losing money to IT scams has people around my age.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 by pauldavis on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:39AM (#20625546)
"Very old" != "older" (folks)
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 by ses1984 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:40PM (#20628141)
Pedantry.
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