I had an experience something like that once. The guy snorted at me and said: “I thought you knew about computers”. I just stood up and said: “You know, you’re absolutely right. Good luck fixing the issue.” and I left.
Really old people seem to be the heaviest AI users, or at least they are in my bubble. So maybe pa is getting it on with an AI granny in that retirement home.
How to piss off a Linux guy in 3 steps:
Step 1: Use Windows
Step 2: Encounter a computer problem and ask the Linux guy for a solution.
Step 3: When they say they don’t know Windows, mock them for being so stupid despite staying in the terminal playing pretend hackerman all day.
I had an experience something like that once. The guy snorted at me and said: “I thought you knew about computers”. I just stood up and said: “You know, you’re absolutely right. Good luck fixing the issue.” and I left.
Also mention that the cli is how computers used to work
Go back to the retirement home grandpa. Computers are grok prompts now with subscription tokens. Pass me the verification can gramps. Heil musk!
Really old people seem to be the heaviest AI users, or at least they are in my bubble. So maybe pa is getting it on with an AI granny in that retirement home.
I legitimately don’t know how to administer a Windows system anymore.
Just tell them to ask Copilot to fix it
A good one is saying windows is the best Linux distro because you can just run exes straight from the shell
~/dev/foo $ msbuild.exe MyProject2026UltimatePro.sln | grep Error(s)Try it and confirm there is no god