I asked a relative to look for RealVNC on the Play Store and install it. Once they were done, I asked them to fulfill a basic task inside RealVNC and they were really confused by my instructions. I took a look at their phone, lo and behold, they had installed a different app. I asked them to repeat the install procedure while I watched. They punched in “realvnc” in the search box, two identically formatted results appeared. Their finger instinctively clicked the Install button on the top result. It was an ad. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦

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    Nobody in my wife’s family has a laptop. Not a single person. They are tech illiterate to the point where I’m not sure they know how to use a keyboard.

    That’s probably not the average user either, but they certainly help to set the average as low as it truly is…

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      It’s entirely plausible that this is the case for your wife’s family and others, but it’s hard for me to imagine a household without at least one non mobile computer. However, I can.

      Without non mobile internet, though? Again, I can imagine it … But it seems wrong.

      It shouldn’t be so hard; I was around before the internet was prevalent. My life now involves constant internet access, though, so I guess it’s weird to me that some people have lives that don’t - and especially that that might be the average.

      One must always remember the words of George Carlin, I suppose.

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        t it’s hard for me to imagine a household without at least one non mobile computer. However, I can.

        Everything is mobile, if you can lift.

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        We use a fair few shared mobile phones at work and while it has WiFi / unlimited mobile data is used solely as an absence line number because some of my fellow colleagues don’t have home internet, actively disable their mobile data (because they use a SMS / Call package only), and really can’t get their head around “the nets”/Whatsapp and don’t, want to, either.

        Which I agree with to an extent since Whatsapp can suck my plums too. They exist and quite a few of them apparently.

        There is a bonus to this thou since I get to call them names because of their neanderthal ways…