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by the_other 1479 days ago
On the other hand, my grandma could barely use a DVD player, and definitely didn't want to learn to set one up. But when the industry bullied her into getting DVDs by making VHS too flimsy to last more than 10 years and then ditching it... she got us in to fix her problem.

"Grandma" doesn't mean "grandma" in these discussions, it's a placeholder for "people not driven to learn the details of all of their tools". Which is most people. Some people do "people" or "animals" or "geology" and not "technology". Your grandma sounds ace, btw.