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.
Your punishment is having to play the games with me. I'm terrible so thr true punishment is rank decay.
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.
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.
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
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.
Mom: sudo rm -f /
rm: cannot remove '/': Is a directory
Mom is an Apple user.
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