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  • He forgot how to use email. Once on the phone, after he finally figured out how to see my video call (he couldn’t figure out how to start his) I walked him through step by step on trying to just get rust desk - which is in the Ubuntu repository already - installed, and failed at that.

    Not only to him, but to a lot of elderly people, software is essentially magic. They don’t even quite understand the concept of “installing”. It took me awhile of explaining, with pictures and such, that a Google search isn’t run by people bringing up the information you’re looking for.

    That’s why I’ve already typed and printed detailed step by step instructions on just the installation process for the OS, so that he can follow that. He does a lot better with physical mediums, like paper, USB, and so on. He even managed to install an SSD (with my direct in person supervision) and kind of understand what that was.

    But software? Magic essentially.










  • Lumiluz@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldRule 34 rule
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    1 month ago

    Having taken care of many children, I strongly disagree. Not just punching someone rather than talking it out is a learned thing that’s also reinforced by society (for the most part).

    If there wasn’t an innate violence within humans, human history would look very different, and fascism wouldn’t exist.

    Also, both processes can activate the adrenal axis actually. It’s not totally different, and there’s some similarities.