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by dwardu 1994 days ago
Simple: You wont get computer help from me anymore if you try message me on WhatsApp. Install the messenger i tell you to install.
2 comments

Hahahaha, brutal!
Coercion? How crude and unlikely.

Everyone I know is able enough to administer their own gizmos. If someone asks, I point them to the zero config option that will require zero tech skills. Computer maintenance is mostly unskilled drudgery nowadays, not wizardry.

Computer maintenance doesn't exist for most people I know. If something gets slow or stops working, they ask a friendly wizard to magically fix it, or they buy a new/different thing, or they do without. It's not that people have learned to admin their own devices, most devices just don't have proper administration.
still wizardry for a lot of the elder generation I think