Unrelated but my work PC recently got installed a “Windows App”. Big tech is really trying to mess with non tech-savvy users.
Have a sysadmin with thirty plus years of experience. Leave the game and desktop shortcuts but black list the executable.
Group Policy, GenZ/A hates this one neat trick
Okay so funny story, I needed to spin up a non enterprise windows VM with defender disabled for testing and got to experience the horror of local group policy not actually applying the disable setting because Microsoft disabled the functionality without telling anyone.
And then I learned you can no longer disable defender on non domain joined systems without downloading a perma disable tool.
Otherwise group policy looks so cool until you run Bloodhound and realize you’ve created a security nuke lmao.
Thank God we have Linux
In the past this was spot on. By today’s timeframe, your 40 or so year old parents know how to use a desktop PC better than most teens. Late gen X and millennials are the PC savvy ones. Gen Z and A don’t deal as well with using an actual PC.
They’re also much less likely to delete your games.
As a gen Z, spot on, I constantly asked my dad to pirate me games, fix whatever was wrong with my computer or OS, until he got tired and forced me to learn.
IKR? It’s way more fun to boot to the bios\uefi, adjust their ram and CPU clock speeds way down, then lock the changes behind a security password and just see how long it takes your kid to figure out what the hell is going on with their PC and how they can fix it.
Route all their traffic to the library website would be comical. Then punch a hole through parental settings so when they think they found a hole, they wind up back to checking out a book.
I shouldn’t ever have kids, might seem comical to me at the time, but manipulating people for jokes can’t be good long term
Life lessons. Lol. My entire plot of sabotage can be undone by simply pulling out the cmos battery. But the path it would take to get them to that point is loads of knowledge.
Your punishment is having to play the games with me. I’m terrible so thr true punishment is rank decay.
Pro tip, don’t stand there and smirk, she’ll know somethings up. You need to put up a convincing protest, and whine in anguish when she deletes the icon.
She hasn’t found my secret boot partition yet.
And then Windows goes full Brutus on you, and displays an info window which states that this will only delete the link not uninstall the application with a convenient link to programs+features.
“Remove from Homescreen” “Delete App” Is what I saw recently when helping an older person remove an app from their iPhone.
They are trying to make it as easy as possible for people, but I guess that doesn’t help much when you are trying to subvert someone with authority over you… Cause then you get into child accounts and screentime settings apparently.
They have gotten pretty robust now.
Mom: sudo rm -f /
rm: cannot remove ‘/’: Is a directory
“My homework folder!”
Mom: your homework folder is there, on the shelf!
Growing up I always held onto the previous Gameboy model whenever I upgraded so that when my parents would take away my video games I could just sneak into their room when they weren’t home and swap out the latest model for the older one. They never noticed.
Sadly my kids got me, someone who’s career has been with IT for over 20 years now lol. Gonna be fun times when they get to this point.
Our generation is the most PC literate generation there is. This comic needed to come out like 25 years ago to be accurate.
I really wonder sometimes if my company hasn’t hired anyone in 5 years due to saving $$$ or because they’re afraid to field test younger employees. I do video subsciption customer service, tech regarding pc/mobile/streaming/proprietary, internet, and retention. Your video is buffering, on your Firetv, not the Roku in your office, but yeah, it’s not your shit 802.11g wifi, it’s the app. Yes, we know it’s our app. Actually, only a handfull of people state issues, but yeah, we’re concealing that from everyone. I really wish people would learn basic technical skills or at least think logically. Just because your internet supports downloading emails doesn’t mean that 4k stream is going to work.
My parents tried this many years ago.
Since then my dad has gotten better- he runs Ubuntu and so far as I know keeps it up to date. My mother on the other hand gets upset if anything at all changes on her computer, and so never updates or anything
Tfw I’m using highly customised i3wm, with no desktop, no gui, and everything is done via cli.
/s
bro thinks he is safe from his mom googling “how to delete linux” and typing rm rf
She’d need root for that.
Mom is an Apple user.
