ITT: post stories of your parents being fucking retarded about tech.
>Be me
>Be 14
>It's 2007
>every teenager around this time was getting cell phones
>Tell Dad I need a phone for my job and school
>He has a complete misunderstanding of texting
>Thinks that if you send a text message all your personal info willbe leaked to the reciever.
>Show him numerous examples of why that isn't true
>He does not believe it.
>at this point I'm getting super frustrated because I need a phone badly.
>mom eventually buys me one.
>dad blows a gasket at home when I send him a text to pick me up from work.
>at this point I've had it
>pop off and tell him that if people's personal info did get leaked via texting no would buy cell phones.
>eventually he realized he was being paranoid for nothing and apologized.
>>54772479
>pop off and tell him that if people's personal info did get leaked via texting no would buy cell phones.
Top kek. Your dad may have been wrong about how things work exactly, but these days people are constantly giving their personal info to a bunch of corporations in various ways. Your dad was at least right to be paranoid.
>>54772479
>I need a phone badly
>14
Right. Of course.
>>54772479
>pop off and tell him that if people's personal info did get leaked via texting no would buy cell phones.
Jesus anon, you were right that texting doesn't reveal all personal info, but your dad had the right mindset. I wonder if he posts on /g/?
>>54772666
PLOT TWIST! It's Stallman's disowned son.
>>54772683
This makes sense.
>>54772479
>arguing with baby boomers
>>54772653
I had a job at Arby's at the time and I took into consideration that my boss would need to contact me.
>>54772479
>your dad apologised
Lucky you
>before I met him he was considered the "family tech" because he built an easy as Lego pc once (actually just hired the local business to do it) and bragged about it constantly
>Insists higher refresh rates mean less power usage automatically
>yelled at me for "using too much internet" and looks at my browsers ten or so open wikipedia pages as proof
>weekly at least
>deliberately tells family/friends I'm bad with computers/internet while I'm trying to help them with things he clearly doesn't understand
>gets mad and rips a dog gate off the wall when I call him out on losing me money multiple times
I fucking hate tech illiterates /g/
>>54772724
how did you have a job at 14? where the hell do you live? china?
>>54772812
I live in Canada. Most entry level jobs hire at 14.
>>54772479
>be 14
>wagecuck
What shitty third world country do you live in where children are required to work?
>>54772853
Like I said to someone else in this thread. I live in Canada. Entry level jobs (fast food, Walmart cashier, etc.) hire at 14.
>Dad buys his wife a new laptop
>brand new, i5, windows 8.1, etc
>really fast
>lets her kid use it
>installs stupid fucking games, installs toolbars, all sorts of shit
>i clean it twice a month for free
>Stop for a couple months
>it fucking dies and stops working for good
>HAD IT FOR LESS THAN A YEAR
holy shit I was so mad. Had my shitty pentium laptop for 2 years and its faster than theirs after 1 month
>>54772479 (OP)
>pop off and tell him that if people's personal info did get leaked via texting no would buy cell phones.
What the fuck. You realize millions of people are using Windows 10, right?
>be 13-19
>only man in immediate family
>teach everyone how to use shit and they listen
>>54772941
For better context. He thought that when you texted someone it would tell EVERYTHING about you.
He thought that if you sent a text the text would include your home address and Social insurance number spelled out in the message.
>>54772972
were you fucking your mom, sister, or both?
>>54773057
Yes and my grandma
>be me
>come home from college for Christmas
>brothers computer just died
>had an integrated processor, I told my mom he'd need a new computer because price to repair was shit
>She doesn't let me help
>I tell her that's a mistake
>Christmas comes
>He got a computer, an HP pavilion, basically a laptop in a desktop
>She thinks it's a gaming PC
>It has 2008 specs
>no GPU
>no PCIe slot
>no ability for memory expansion
>She bought it refurbished for 400$ on ebay
>Thought it was good because it had a Tb of Hdd space
>I had to explain to her why she got scammed, and why it won't run fallout 4
>>54773187
>be me
Stopped reading. Get a better hook faggot
>>54773221
I think you should fuck off back to R.eddit.
>>54773381
Why period between R and e in Reddit?
>>54773221
stop getting your panties in a twist at how people choose to tell their stories
>>54772826
Aka new China
>>54773394
because he is from 9gag, and if you say reddit in the comments there your comment becomes invisible to others
>>54773419
Ah ok. Many thanks friend
>>54773394
>>54773434
>>54773419
Because phrases like "fuck off back to R.eddit" are detected as spam.
>>54773419
How do you know that?
>>54773221
>needing a hook to read greentext
Good god you have the attention span of a 4 year old.
>>54772479
>be 14 with a job
>can't buy self a cell phone
autism is right
>>54773451
used to be a 9fag before i discovered leddit and 4chins
>be 13 in 2003
>have modem only
>have two pcs, one family one that is hooked to modem, mine has nothing but is less than 10 feet away
>want router to share connection
>"IS THIS GONNA COST US MORE A MONTH ANON"
>no. Let me prove it to you.
>"YES IT IS WE ARE NOT DOING THIS"
>buy one locally and secretly install it and run cable to me when they're out of the house
>they see it months later
>ask about it
>say we have always had two boxes
>they buy it
Bought myself at least 3 years of internet existence, by 16 I was network admin of our house.
>dad my monitor's busted, can you order a new one
>proceeds to toss both the monitor and computer
>>54772812
I'm in the US and got my first job at 15, my sister got hers at 14
>>54773472
You need a cell plan which is
1. Cheaper with a family and
2. Not possible without a bank account
unless you buy 'minutes' like some poorfag
>>54772853
Not required, optional to have cash flow during that time. Might want to just avoid it anyway because the hot item during that time will always be a car, and due to age discrimination the insurance and loan rates are designed to make you choose suicide instead.
>>54773682
>like some poorfag
You were working part-time at Arby's, you definitely fell under this category.
>>54773718
I wasn't him, but it is much better to be under a plan as a kid. Even if he bought his own phone, he would have to be included.
Beside, the argument wasn't over buying one, it was over having one.
>Dad: How do I upload this picture to the facebooks?
Me: Not from here. Close this window.
>Dad: How?
I wish I were fucking joking. This is a man that did not even know how to close a window without being told.
>>54773744
>Even if he bought his own phone, he would have to be included
What?
>>54773682
>unless you buy 'minutes' like some poorfag
laughingbitches.jpg
>"the goyim doesn't pay $70/month on a 24 month contract"
>"wouldn't want to have sex with him, oy vey!"
Parents are usually autistic when it comes to technology. Just the other week it took my mom a cool 6 seconds to open a new tab.
>>54773783
Do all parents call it "facebooks"? Mine do too.
>mom wants to show me a dog on the animal shelter's website
>clicks in IE's Google toolbar
>searches "google.com"
>clicks link to Google homepage
>searches "localanimalsheltersite.com" from there
>clicks link to site
>>54772479
The irony in this is that today people willingly buy phones that leak their personal information.
>born to baby boomer parents
>dad was always into farm work and other agricultural jobs
>he eventually gets a job with the USDA, working on a ranch
>at around age 5, my dad is transferred to the university
>he never really worked with computers in his life
>becomes network admin and IT specialist
>let dumbass babby me do whatever on our macintosh while he was usually outside doing yard work and working on cars and whatnot
>whenever I ran into problems he would help me
>taught me a lot of what I know today
>will still go to him for advice
Thanks dad
>still an autistic NEET faggot
FUCK
>>54774000
Could be worse
>>54772479
Your dad sounds cool. Maybe he doesn't know tech, but he was concerned about your privacy and admitted when he was proven wrong. That's better than most stories I hear on /g/.
>>54773682
Furthermore, his dad forbade cell phones. Even if OP bought a phone with his own money, his dad could take it away. Parents can do that.
>>54774132
damn...
>>54774132
I feel sad for your parents... like this isn't even funny. Shame on you for not teaching them how to bookmark.
>>54774132
holy shit
>>54772812
Yes
Computer help me make sneaker
>>54774132
You have to respect the diligence.
>>54772479
>he realized he was being paranoid
>apologized
Looks like you have a great dad, anon. Enjoy your life.
>Dad is a detective
>Has been looking for some faggot for months
>I look at his facebook. He just checked in at a local pub
>they arrest him
>Dad needs me to talk to his coworkers and explain how I found him
>None of them know what the fuck I'm saying
>>54776986
That's both concerning and hilarious. Assuming you're not blowing it out of your arse.
>>54777000
Millenials' parents are tech literate.
>be me
>be 14
>my parents knew about technology
>I had my own computer
>they weren't incompetent
I pity you motherfuckers with shit parents desu
>>54777000
>God I fucking hate millenials
t. millennial
>>54777275
t. millenial
>>54777223
Good, I'm not the only one who got lucky.
Is getting tech-literate parents "lucky" nowadays?
>>54777275
pls >>>/pol/ and stay >>>/pol/
>>54772724
>I had a job at Arby's at the time and I took into consideration that my boss would need to contact me.
You were 14. Why wouldn't your boss call your house if they wanted to contact you?
My dad is a programmer so he never really retarded about tech.
He sometimes goes full autism and makes a huge effort for no reason. I guess because he enjoys it.
>he got a digital photo frame as a present
>won't just load all the pics up on a SD card
>has to resize every single picture to exact screen resolution of the photo frame display to save space
>it obviously has to be an automated process
>won't do it with a normal program like gimp or irfanview
>everything from this point on is done in a linux command shell
>wants/needs to get a image editing tool to do it
>instad of looking it up online, looks through endless collection of programs in home server
>finds multiple programs and installs them all
>finally settles on one kind of tool that will to do the magic
>processing begins
>stops it again
>writes some code so the program puts out a string of information every second while it's processing images
>20 minutes of dicking around later
>uses information with another program to draw a bunch of graphs on screen
>another 20 minutes later
>needs to draw graphs in simmilar fashion to see how the disc does too
>then starts to process images
>documents the whole thing with little comments here and there so he can look up what he did later on
>images are all done
>trys to talk to photo frame over wireless connection
>goes crazy over the linux version thats on the photo frame
>does more stuff I can't possibly understand for a while
>finally the photo frame shows images
>some are not the correct aspect ratio, photo frame makes black bars
>photo frame could very well overscan these images by just clicking on some button on the remote
>nope
>these images will be processed a second time
>back to the lab again
>>54777976
he may as well make his own photo frame
>>54774132
I knew of a lady that did this once. She also took photos of her email with her smartphone and then wrote it all down in a notebook anyways. She was in here late 30s at most too.
>>54777275
Oh god please kill yourself tripfag holy SHIT
>be 16
>build my own computer because PC GAMING MASTURBATES
>suddenly become the tech guy of the family
>things build up and they keep asking me to do more
>4 years later I'm buying Craigslist servers for my dad's office and replacing the Pentium 4 shit boxes with thin clients
>rewire his entire office and implement a scalable and secure infrastructure
>tfw I Googled everything
>tfw I didn't even want a career in computers
Of course my family was surprised as fuck when I told them I was applying for med school
>>54772853
Its not a requirement to work in Canada, but a lot of teenagers like to start with entry level jobs such as retail or labour service like landscaping, etc in order to pay for school without student loans, get job experience, develop personal responsibility, and in my case build capital before you finish high school. The earlier you start saving, the wealthier you will be later in life.
>>54778467
Are you me? Except I became an architect.
>>54779331
Waa I use a tripcode because I'm special
>>54773994
What is it with old people and fucking pluralizing names
I've pointed this out to my father so many times and every time we have a good laugh about it and then he fucking does it five mintues later again and I try not to have a cow because I want to believe I'm not autistic but FUCK
>>54774132
it's not even fucking cursive
how does anyone write this shit without getting cramped to fuck
FUCK
>>54777980
>"le does anyone else think this is le wrong generation xD"
kys nig
>>54777371
Having competent parents is lucky senpai.
>tfw dad's entire computation experience was with programming punch cards so he knew nothing and cared nothing about personal computing
>taught me common sense then set me loose
>no one died
>everything was great
top 1% tech-upbringing right there
>>54777976
this is literally me, except competent so there's not an addition 30-minute "look up how to do this in Google" between every line of greentext
it's like a drug Anon, you would never understand the sheer pleasure of things just werking™
>>54777976
I'm the same.
>>54773186
Father's mother, or Mother's mother? Or both?
