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> Despite very careful instruction, and even writing down simple steps to make a call, etc., I could see her eyes glazing over. She just didn't want to know, an
by guerrilla 5y ago
> Despite very careful instruction, and even writing down simple steps to make a call, etc., I could see her eyes glazing over. She just didn't want to know, and after awhile I had to buy her another keyboard flip-phone.
I feel like I'm already getting there with some things and I'm half that age. If something as disruptive as systemd or GNOME 3 came out again, I think I wouldn't even listen to the rationales and just follow the old fork this time around. Things work as they are for me.
- tempestn 5y agoYep, I think there's just an inverse relationship between age and how large the change needs to be for you to give it a pass.
- hulitu 5y agoAlso the change has to bring some added value. When you get older time becomes scarce and you don't have time to test every shiny new toy and fix its possible issues.
- Dylan16807 5y agoThe time to learn depends on how much you do with a device. If it might take 20 minutes to learn some ass-backwards way to do a phone call, but that's all I need to do, then it's more hassle to go get a different device. Sometimes people complain about the time to learn when actually they just don't wanna.
- toyg 5y agoAlso, as you get older, you realize how much of this churn is change for change's sake, bringing you no real direct improvement to your quality of life. In IT in particular, we like to reinvent the wheel every few years, because a new generation of hungry ninjas thinks they've discovered a new type of fire.