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Old 02-05-2018, 07:42 AM   #31832
Katsunami
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I can teach people whatever they need to know, if I know the materials well enough myself. I've done so many times. Computers, photography, programming, even English (when I was studying English). There are two conditions however, and both my mom and sister don't meet them:

- You'll have to WANT to learn it.
- You'll make a serious EFFORT to learn it.

If you're not willing to do that, I'll just let you muddle through on your own, fix the crap you create (for a fee: yes, even with family, so they try not to create crap), and if you give me too much of a hard time while *I* try to fix *your* crap which you've created because you don't want to learn the way of life after 1997, I'll eventually abandon helping you altogether.

I don't mind people trying to learn something and having a hard time with it. Remember that man (the one who recently died) some posts ago? I taught him how to use a computer from scratch when he was 65, and then taught him anything he needed to know in the next 20 years. After a few years he was digitizing his own LP's, ripping CD's, editing home video's and burning his own DVD's, making his own calendars, he built a recipe BOOK in Word (with pictures)... you name it, he probably did it. He also used a password manager, did online banking, and ordered his own stuff at a few big, trusted stores (bol.com, amazon.de, coolblue, etc....).

The difference between him and my mom (and sister) is that he WANTED to learn this stuff, and they DON'T. And if I notice you don't want to learn and don't even make an effort, I don't want to teach you.

That 85 y/o was more into 2017 than my not-even-mid-thirties sister.

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