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Originally Posted by Sregener
When I got a new game or program, I would read the entire manual at least once before inserting the disk into the computer.
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If people would do this with any device, not only computer software, then they'd know what they are doing.
Mom using a mobile (dumb)phone:
*Beep*
WHY DOESN'T IT WORK?
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*
IT DOENS'T WORK!!
*BEEEEEEEP!*
**** STUPID...**** WHY MUST EVERYTHING BE SO DIFFICULT?! **** NJJAAAAARGHHH! (Or some other sort of incoherent rant.)
*Me grab Le Phone*
*Hits button*
*BEEP*
Phone says: "Toetsen geblokkeerd." ("Keyboard locked.")
*Slides lock switch to OFF position*
"Here you go, it works."
Mom: "How'd you fix that?"
Me: "By reading what it says on the screen."
I think I'll have my mom stick to paper books. Buying and downloading books, getting DRM off, getting them onto the e-reader, it'll all come down to me. Even then, I have a feeling that she won't actually understand an e-reader.
With regard to electrical devices she doesn't understand anything if it has more buttons than ON and OFF. It's not because she's stupid, but because she has an utter lack of interest in anything that's even somewhat technical, and she's impatient at that, so don't even think about her reading a manual.