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Re:AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks ... by ajford on Friday March 18, 2022 @12:46PM (#30724505)
I wonder if that percentage of tech-savvy "elderly" is going up over time. I know I remember hearing that about anything computer related 20 years ago, but many of the people in the upper age ranges now lived with computers for a majority of their life.

My grandma is not tech savvy, but can follow directions pretty well. My spouse's grandma is tech savvy to a certain level and manages her own computer and photo library. I know either of them would likely be able to hold down a button and follow some set of directions to join a wifi and upload a file.

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Re:AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks ... by mauvehaus on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:05PM (#30724714)
25 years ago, we were all bitching about having to program our parents' VCR for them. In 25 more years we'll be asking a teenager how to get TikTok beamed directly into our brains like they're doing.
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Re:AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks ... by gamacodre on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:22PM (#30724945)
I am 100% sure I will never be asking for that.

Now, figuring out how to get a containerization platform running in there might be a different matter...

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Re:AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks ... by pixl97 on Friday March 18, 2022 @01:59PM (#30725421)
Until the container gets rooted and people start asking why you call yourself Tyler half the time.
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Re:AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks ... by bluGill on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:12PM (#30725605)
I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR. I also knew a lot of young people who couldn't.
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Re:AEG combi microwave unusable after update: device thinks ... by no-s on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:30PM (#30728394)
>I knew a few elderly who managed to program their VCR

I tease my wife about not figuring out email until 2005. Of course I date back to the era whence we had to run down to the data center and take turns on the operator console to send each other text messages.

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