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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/andy_nony_mouse on 2025-06-10 11:44:45+00:00.
When I was 12 my mom got an Apple
][+ computer. I set it up for her after carefully reading all the manuals. Back that manuals were actually useful and contained a lot of good information. The computer had two external hard drives, a modem, a monitor, and a printer. Everything was connected with various cables. My mom used it for a couple days and then said to me in an exasperated voice “These cables are all over the place and it’s driving me crazy! Clean it up so there are no cables!”
I had explained to her several times that the cables were necessary, but she just wasn’t hearing it. OK, I unplugged every cable from every external piece of the computer system and put them in a box. She walked into her den and said “Now this is what it should have looked like from the beginning. Keep it this way from now on.”
A few minutes later, she calls me back into the den. “The computer won’t turn on”. “Of course”, I said, “there are no cables. There’s no way to get power to the computer and no way for the computer to talk to any of the other devices.” She grumbled for a moment, but then had me reinstall everything so it worked.
Sometimes to get people to understand a concept, you have to give them exactly what they ask for.