I stopped helping people with basic computer problems the second or third time I was told that I broke something. I realized that the interactions were basically always unpleasant. People seem to be much happier just calling geek squad, or whomever.
Exactly. People can be so ungrateful sometimes. You help them enthusiastically, talk to them about good computing habits like not opening spam email links and not installing 20 untrustworthy browser extensions (the modern day toolbars!) only to get blamed when their computers fall into disrepair for the exact same reasons. It got to the point I'll pretend to be technologically illiterate just to avoid these situations.
