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    Are You Making Your Family Technologically Illiterate?

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    • Minion QueenM
      Minion Queen
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      My brothers (all adults) have figured out if they call me my first 2 questions are going to be did you turn it off and then back on again and did you look it up on google before calling me. Now one of them never calls me anymore.

      We homeschooled so I never really just answered a question for @Mike-Ralston he always had to go find the answer himself, if he still needed help after that then I would help but never on the first go around.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender
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        I didn't realize @Mike-Ralston was your son.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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          @Carnival-Boy said:

          I think it's the other way round. In households where one person is tech savvy there is a tendency to tinker, fiddle, experiment and ultimately break things. The non-IT person then has to either wait for it to be fixed, or give up waiting and fix it his/herself.

          How often do you think, though, that an IT person will break something beyond the point of them being able to fix it and then the non-IT person can just "figure it out?" Seems like a pretty rare thing.

          Although to be fair, how many IT people actually tinker at home in a way that impacts others? Most people need very little beyond their network and wireless working. Sadly very few IT people seem to care about even tinkering at that level that I've seen 😞

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          • Minion QueenM
            Minion Queen @Dashrender
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            @Dashrender said:

            I didn't realize @Mike-Ralston was your son.

            Yup resident teenager and NTG intern 🙂

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            • art_of_shredA
              art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said:

              @Carnival-Boy said:

              I think it's the other way round. In households where one person is tech savvy there is a tendency to tinker, fiddle, experiment and ultimately break things. The non-IT person then has to either wait for it to be fixed, or give up waiting and fix it his/herself.

              How often do you think, though, that an IT person will break something beyond the point of them being able to fix it and then the non-IT person can just "figure it out?" Seems like a pretty rare thing.

              Although to be fair, how many IT people actually tinker at home in a way that impacts others? Most people need very little beyond their network and wireless working. Sadly very few IT people seem to care about even tinkering at that level that I've seen 😞

              Coming from the guy whose home network is always saturated with issues... lol

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
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                @art_of_shred said:

                @scottalanmiller said:

                @Carnival-Boy said:

                I think it's the other way round. In households where one person is tech savvy there is a tendency to tinker, fiddle, experiment and ultimately break things. The non-IT person then has to either wait for it to be fixed, or give up waiting and fix it his/herself.

                How often do you think, though, that an IT person will break something beyond the point of them being able to fix it and then the non-IT person can just "figure it out?" Seems like a pretty rare thing.

                Although to be fair, how many IT people actually tinker at home in a way that impacts others? Most people need very little beyond their network and wireless working. Sadly very few IT people seem to care about even tinkering at that level that I've seen 😞

                Coming from the guy whose home network is always saturated with issues... lol

                Because I actually constantly test new gear and stuff. Which few people tend to do.

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                • art_of_shredA
                  art_of_shred
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                  Yeah, I'll stick with a network that just works. 😛

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender
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                    I used to test things all the time, but I did try to do it on a different segment so the rest of the house worked as normal.

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                    • Minion QueenM
                      Minion Queen
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                      I will break anyone's fingers that tests in my day to day environment. That get's done in a lab situation or on something that I don't use 😛

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                        A Former User @art_of_shred
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                        @art_of_shred said:

                        Yeah, I'll stick with a network that just works. 😛

                        Same. It's fun for a little while to test stuff but then it just gets annoying when I just want it to work.. Plus I tend to get nagged if the home network isn't 100% working right.

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                        • dafyreD
                          dafyre
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                          counts non-broken fingers

                          I'm not lucky enough to have a real test environment at home. I've got a Windows 8 system that I use to run a couple of Hyper-V VMs... but that's about it.

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                          • art_of_shredA
                            art_of_shred @Minion Queen
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                            @Minion-Queen said:

                            I will break anyone's fingers that tests in my day to day environment. That get's done in a lab situation or on something that I don't use 😛

                            That's my network, so they would already have broken fingers by the time you got to them. 😉

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