I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in with a Lenovo laptop

Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by Syzygies on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:21AM (#33316275)

Conventional and unconventional behavior can both have unwanted consequences. We each pick our poison.

Another senior here.

As a child I scratched my father's guitar with a belt buckle I had been told to wear. I learned to distrust adult judgment, I still don't wear belts half a century later, and I have a successful research career for which I partly thank this errant belt buckle. I lost a potential life as a rock God, but I've been protected from ever buying Microsoft products. This story horrifies me but it doesn't surprise me; I made a fair trade.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by spillguard on Monday October 24, 2022 @10:13AM (#33316883)

For clarification, how did not wearing belt buckles translate to not buying Microsoft products?

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by Syzygies on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:04PM (#33320152)

Belt buckles taught me that conventional behavior can have unwanted consequences. Using Windows is conventional behavior.

I love computers. Microsoft turned the greatest human achievement of my lifetime into a brand of toilet seat.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by ozim on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:57PM (#33321736)

So you did not learn to weigh consequences correctly.

Wearing belt keeps you from a lot more inconvenience than scratching a guitar.

Besides unless it was IDK some kind of guitar that Jimmy Hendrix was playing I would not scold kid for scratching it - so much that he would stop touching guitars for life or stop wearing a belt for a life.

Buying Microsoft products save you a lot of inconvenience as well.

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