Originally posted by Adrift
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It never ceases to amaze me how terrified people are of their computers. As if they're magical electric boxes that require a degree in rocket science to fix, maintain, and operate. If you spent $300 bucks and had to send your PC to India in order to uninstall Win 10, hate to say it, but you got ripped off. Your local PC shop probably coulda done it for you for $50 bucks and had it back to you the next day. Assuming you needed a new copy of Windows 7, you'd probably be looking at no more than $150 altogether, and the PC hardware would likely still have been under warranty.
My father is a skilled carpenter. Retired now, but occasionally still does his own framing, flooring, siding, roofing, even a little bit of electrical and plumbing if need be. Computers freak him the heck out, but what he doesn't understand is that if you know how to work on your car or your home, in my opinion, you can work on your own computer. It's not like you have to test wires, or solder transistors anymore. Everything is plug and play. And you don't need to know code language to install or uninstall simple applications or even your operating system unless you're working on something Unix based (which Windows isn't). It's really a psychological thing though. No matter how many times I try to explain how these things work...it's still magic to him.
My father is a skilled carpenter. Retired now, but occasionally still does his own framing, flooring, siding, roofing, even a little bit of electrical and plumbing if need be. Computers freak him the heck out, but what he doesn't understand is that if you know how to work on your car or your home, in my opinion, you can work on your own computer. It's not like you have to test wires, or solder transistors anymore. Everything is plug and play. And you don't need to know code language to install or uninstall simple applications or even your operating system unless you're working on something Unix based (which Windows isn't). It's really a psychological thing though. No matter how many times I try to explain how these things work...it's still magic to him.
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