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[–] [S] 20 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

She’ll will move it away and replace it with some bonzi buddy virus she just downloaded, and then be complain to you why she can’t login to her bank anymore.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    This requires more work but don't make anyone an admin of their computer if they don't know what they're doing and you have to clean it up.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 hour ago

    My uncle wasn't the admin of his (Windows) computer, but he managed to install a web browser that was basically malware. The damn thing didn't require any admin permissions to install, and it automatically ran a powershell script to reinstall itself if it was removed. I had to edit the registry to remove it. It's crazy.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

    My mother has the sudo password. It's fine, she doesn't mess with the command line unless I write an email saying "open terminal and copy and past this command into it..."

    And even then I have to be on the phone with her to explain how to open the terminal. But that's way easier than trying to explain how to navigate through a bunch of menus.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 hour ago

    Agreed! It's just way easier to explain "open that black box thingy here and then write what i sent ya"

    Than "click this, then do that, click this, then write this here press windows and R, write this, the click that..."

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Why is she using Google Chrome?

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 hours ago

    This needs to be made standard after a mandatory age verification check during Windows activation. Sorry boomers, you'll be patronised by Windows even more than regular users

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    You didn’t install Linux?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 hours ago

    Reminds me of an episode of Harmontown where Schrab was complaining about the chairs and Dan said, "can we get Schrab like, a sarcastically comfy chair?"

    Exaggerated accommodation. Comedy gold

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 8 hours ago