How to fix your parents’ messed-up computers when home ...

[mikehalloran]

I thought of putting this in OT but it has some pretty good advice mixed into the humor.

How to fix your parents’ messed-up computers when home for the holidays

https://www.cultofmac.com/597206/fix-yo ... computers/

[HCMarkus]

I especially like this:

Day 3
Step one: Notice hangover, and regret telling your parents drunkenly about that time you made out with the babysitter while they were out at their bridge night. Step two — and this might be the most important part of this whole guide — switch off “soap opera” mode on all TVs in the house. Soap opera mode — aka motion-smoothing — is when the TV makes up frames in-between the actual frames of the TV show or movie in order to use up the full 120/240fps or whatever the TV serves up. Movies look especially bad. Even Tom Cruise thinks so.

[mhschmieder]

Hohoho! My Dad has had such a bad experience with Windows XP and Windows 8 that he's terrified of going to Windows 10, so I have to help him on an OS that I abandoned as soon as it was possible to do so, on every family visit!

[bayswater]

Printers; he got that right. After a few decades, printers still suck.

[mikehalloran]

Printers; he got that right. After a few decades, printers still suck.

That was my favorite tip.