I was friends with someone who had a couple of kids who were obsessed with video games. For me as a kid, that naturally led to some sort of hacking. If somethin

I was friends with someone who had a couple of kids who were obsessed with video games. For me as a kid, that naturally led to some sort of hacking. If something didn't work, I would try to investigate or fix it. For them, it was playing games while constantly talking to their friends, and if not that, watching videos on YouTube of other kids playing games. One of them, a 13-year old boy, was upset that his laptop screen didn't work. He had been complaining to his mother for months about it. I pointed out to him that his laptop had an external monitor port and that he could plug it in to something else and it worked fine. He had never investigated this possibility. I also took the laptop and cleaned it out viruses and spyware... Something like 42 different packages were removed. Basically if something didn't work, they would just give up and say that it was "broken".