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This is so familiar. So much of it.. Thank you so much for sharing. You’re really not alone. I feel like maybe we need a support group of sorts for adults who a

This is so familiar. So much of it.. Thank you so much for sharing. You’re really not alone. I feel like maybe we need a support group of sorts for adults who are trying to help their agent parents survive technology. It’s so much to deal with and it feels so isolating at the time but it seems to be very, very common.

dbg31415 4y ago
Dad was what, 50 at least before email even came out? Christ, I can't even stand driving an automatic car. I'm gonna be just as bad as he is with adapting to new tech. I am already. That automated voice in TikToc is the thing of my nightmares -- I hear it and it's like instant rage. I know exactly how Dad feels when he has to use a phone app! (= When Dad grew up, he was in a very rural setting. He didn't get electricity until his senior year of high school. Then he went to work in a mine, then he went into the army. He was 21 before he ever met someone who didn't look like he did. Or ventured more than 50 miles away from his home. Computers came out and then the internet and then phones, and he had a flip phone until probably 2016. And he was successful at what he did. Without the tech. So he had no motivation to learn it. He knew what worked for him, he knew how to get what he needed to done. The change he went through in his life time... I totally get it's been hard to keep up with it all. But yeah man, we should have a Discord server or something (that's how you say IRC group now, yeah?) -- it's all been a bit much to deal with. Love to have some people to share experiences with. Plus... I think Dad would probably get a kick out of talking to other old people who have kids in tech. "My son works with computers, does your son work with computers too?" I can just see them trying to explain the jobs of their offspring to one another. It'd be fucking adorable. Depending on who you ask, Dad has left the people with the impression that I do medical transcription, or program robots for welding, or farm bit coin. I love it. ChatGPT isn't there yet, but I can see a future where it serves as a biographer for old people and automatically records and documents their lives, and prompts them daily to fill out more details. Then plays it back for them so they can approve changes to the story. I think Dad would really benefit from something like that... an obedient ego-less listener with infinite time who wanted to spend it helping immortalize Dad's story... he'd love it. And I don't feel like it's too far off. But anyway, it'd be cool to swap stories. My email is in my profile. Cheers mate!

dbg31415 4y ago

Dad was what, 50 at least before email even came out? Christ, I can't even stand driving an automatic car. I'm gonna be just as bad as he is with adapting to new tech. I am already. That automated voice in TikToc is the thing of my nightmares -- I hear it and it's like instant rage. I know exactly how Dad feels when he has to use a phone app! (= When Dad grew up, he was in a very rural setting. He didn't get electricity until his senior year of high school. Then he went to work in a mine, then he went into the army. He was 21 before he ever met someone who didn't look like he did. Or ventured more than 50 miles away from his home. Computers came out and then the internet and then phones, and he had a flip phone until probably 2016. And he was successful at what he did. Without the tech. So he had no motivation to learn it. He knew what worked for him, he knew how to get what he needed to done. The change he went through in his life time... I totally get it's been hard to keep up with it all. But yeah man, we should have a Discord server or something (that's how you say IRC group now, yeah?) -- it's all been a bit much to deal with. Love to have some people to share experiences with. Plus... I think Dad would probably get a kick out of talking to other old people who have kids in tech. "My son works with computers, does your son work with computers too?" I can just see them trying to explain the jobs of their offspring to one another. It'd be fucking adorable. Depending on who you ask, Dad has left the people with the impression that I do medical transcription, or program robots for welding, or farm bit coin. I love it. ChatGPT isn't there yet, but I can see a future where it serves as a biographer for old people and automatically records and documents their lives, and prompts them daily to fill out more details. Then plays it back for them so they can approve changes to the story. I think Dad would really benefit from something like that... an obedient ego-less listener with infinite time who wanted to spend it helping immortalize Dad's story... he'd love it. And I don't feel like it's too far off. But anyway, it'd be cool to swap stories. My email is in my profile. Cheers mate!