An insight

It has occurred to me while working in the computer repair industry that people are morons. Yeah I’ve been saying that for years, but I mean super morons.

People have been getting lazier and lazier. No one wants to do it themselves anymore. I spend 95% of my time cleaning the same fucking infections and bugs because people are too lazy or stupid to learn how to prevent them or fix them.
It’s gotten to the point where some of our “better off” customers are just buying new PCs and laptops instead of putting a little elbow grease into them. It’s disgusting.

But on the other hand companies like Dell and Best Buy aren’t helping. They just show off shiny new things in front of people and send them on their way. No guidance, no manuals. Just show what they could do, not how to do it.
No one teaches them basic maintenance, or infection prevention. And then people get mad at the technology and those associated with it.
I can’t count how many times people have gotten upset with me because I know the technology and they don’t. They get so easily frustrated, and who can blame them? Things have gotten unnecessarily complex and there’s no central location for help.

My problem with all this? I’m willing to share all my knowledge and I want to help people so they can do it themselves. but no one will listen.

But I trudge on, my knowledge base is small and missing many basic articles. hopefully someday it’ll grow to be a large repository for people to easily search for a solution to their troubles.

And with a little luck, they’ll remember what they did.