Our Parents SUCK at Tech - Then vs. Now Ep3
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,152 words · ~5 min read
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the good people at honor reached out to sponsor a piece featuring their new
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honor 6X smartphone so they send it over
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and I'm sitting there bored at a family function putting the gears to the
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phone's dual ends camera Kiren 665
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octacore CPU 4 gigs of RAM and 3340 mAh
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battery I'm at my in-law's house right and an argument breaks out at the
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Scrabble table and meanwhile I'm kind of sitting there
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going why don't you just Google it but
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it's not all bad thanks to my entire evening of eye rolling face palming and
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full body cringing we all get to
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experience this fantastic video eight of
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the worst ways the older generation makes my head
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explode brought to you by the honor 6x
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number one my dad seems
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completely unable to wrap his head
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around the fact that making phone calls
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ain't what it used to be he still it is
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2017 he still tries to crank call me
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crank call me like I'll answer my phone
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and he'll start pretending to order a pizza or I'll call him and he'll answer
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with some goofy accent trying to convince me that I got the wrong number
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dude I know it's you I've had caller ID
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on my phone since I was in high school and I know I didn't Mis dial your number
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nobody dials numbers anymore number two
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I needed to get to my grandma's new place so I even proactively like I'm
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ready for this I proactively structure the question like so hey can you give me
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your new address Gran and to my dismay
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she like every other old person on the
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planet proceeds to launch into this
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elaborate play byplay of the rote go go
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past the Giant Tiger then uh left at the
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spoon shaped Rock and you'll see this really friendly young man watering the
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grass well well that's Chester the neighbor's sonin-law and he works at the
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co-op and okay this is not a quest
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grandma I'm not retaining any of this
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I'm not listening please For the Love of All that is good tell me the address so
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I can open my maps app and key it in
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number three thanks to simple interfaces
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like honors emotion UI smartphones are getting easier and easier to use but
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just because an older person learns to use the internet doesn't mean they
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really get how to internet and we've all
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suffered the consequences of this one so here's a few etiquette tips if I don't
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copy paste your status update you posted
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it doesn't mean I'm not your true friend
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that funny Chain Letter well if the
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memes have e-bombs world watermarks
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they're probably a little dated and
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auntie thank you so much for the Urgent
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cyber security advisory telling me to beware of people calling and pretending
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they work for Microsoft I know your heart's in the
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right place but please just oh
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please number four why is it that every
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time I go somewhere with my dad he's
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always trying to get me to memorize what section of the parking garage we're in
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so that we don't lose the car okay
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what's the color orange okay what's the
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number shoot I forget let's go back look I'm way ahead of you Dad just take a
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picture and move on it doesn't consume
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film anymore and we don't have to wait for it to get
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developed number five you convinced your
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mother-in-law to get a cell phone but she refuses to get cellular data because
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it's expensive and Lisa needs braces
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well you know what I have to say to that data plan it's like $10 a month Less on
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Ting and you know what else is expensive getting lost two blocks from your
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grandson's birthday party and spending 15 minutes on the phone with me trying
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to figure out where the heck you are which way is west and which Auto Wrecker
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to drive towards to get back on the right path you aren't even supposed to
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be on the phone when you're driving
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number six my dad knows how to text me
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he even sends instant messages and pictures over Hangouts but he doesn't
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seem to grasp the added utility that
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these modern mediums have over snail mail so every 3 to 5 days he sends me an
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epic wall of text with where he's staying the recent weather best wishes
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for the kids and then he signs his name at the bottom and I'm like pops it's
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instant messaging I can reply right away
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you can reply right away and we can have a conversation do your relatives ever
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send you snail mail and then text you to tell you to expect it why did you number
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seven my auntie still brings her digital
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point and shoot that runs on ablea batteries to family functions even
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though the camera on her phone is way better way easier to use and easy to to
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share pictures with it just seems like it's hard for some older people to
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internalize just how many single use devices modern phones have replaced I
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mean what's next a calculator at the restaurant to split the belt damn it
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Vern there is an app for that and finally number eight right next to the
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landline phone at my grandparents house
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is a wall power adapter for the cell phone that lives in the wall with the
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phone next to it plugged in 100% of the
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time when they're at home sometimes I
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even see them stand there while they're talking on it do you realize that modern
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phones like this one can last for like 2
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days before they die why not just plug it in when you go to bed well that way I
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always know where it is you don't go
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anywhere Lynn just keep it in your pocket and that way you'll know where it
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is and you'll actually be safer in the
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event of a nasty fall or a freak accident with a knitting needle or
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whatever so thanks to honor for
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sponsoring this list of ways that people are bound to misuse their awesome
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technology you can check out the link to where to buy the honor 6X in the video
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description and while you're down there drop your favorite my family sucks at
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Tech stories in the comments below and maybe you'll see them featured in a
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future episode thank you so much for
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watching