Have a sysadmin with thirty plus years of experience. Leave the game and desktop shortcuts but black list the executable.
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.
Growing up I always held onto the previous Gameboy model whenever I upgraded so that when my parents would take away my video games I could just sneak into their room when they weren’t home and swap out the latest model for the older one. They never noticed.
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.
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.
Route all their traffic to the library website would be comical. Then punch a hole through parental settings so when they think they found a hole, they wind up back to checking out a book.
I shouldn’t ever have kids, might seem comical to me at the time, but manipulating people for jokes can’t be good long term
Life lessons. Lol. My entire plot of sabotage can be undone by simply pulling out the cmos battery. But the path it would take to get them to that point is loads of knowledge.
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.
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
“My homework folder!”
Mom: your homework folder is there, on the shelf!
Tfw I’m using highly customised i3wm, with no desktop, no gui, and everything is done via cli.
/s
bro thinks he is safe from his mom googling “how to delete linux” and typing rm rf
She’d need root for that.
My parents tried this many years ago.
Since then my dad has gotten better- he runs Ubuntu and so far as I know keeps it up to date. My mother on the other hand gets upset if anything at all changes on her computer, and so never updates or anything
Mom is an Apple user.
