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* UsefulNotes/{{VCR}}s included a digital clock, which in many people's homes [[StoppedClock simply blinked "12:00"]] because no one could be bothered to figure out (or wanted to figure out) how to program it after hooking it up or after a power failure, because the clock wasn't necessary to watch movies - only to program when to record things. This became a common [[StockJokes Stock Joke]] for someone who was Hopeless With Tech.

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* UsefulNotes/{{VCR}}s Platform/{{VCR}}s included a digital clock, which in many people's homes [[StoppedClock simply blinked "12:00"]] because no one could be bothered to figure out (or wanted to figure out) how to program it after hooking it up or after a power failure, because the clock wasn't necessary to watch movies - only to program when to record things. This became a common [[StockJokes Stock Joke]] for someone who was Hopeless With Tech.
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* If you thought this was a problem with just older people, a lot of younger people, used to mobile devices which restrict access to the underlying filesystem and search functions that make file organization unnecessary, [[https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z apparently have troube understanding how file systems work on PCs]].

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* If you thought this was a problem with just older people, a lot of younger people, used to mobile devices which restrict access to the underlying filesystem and search functions that make file organization unnecessary, [[https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z apparently have troube trouble understanding how file systems work on PCs]].
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* Yuko in ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' has no knowledge in operating any modern electronics. Justified, as her family had never been able to afford any modern conveniences aside from a phone/fax, a CRT television, and a second-hand UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom.

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* Yuko in ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' has no knowledge in operating any modern electronics. Justified, as her family had never been able to afford any modern conveniences aside from a phone/fax, a CRT television, and a second-hand UsefulNotes/SuperFamicom.Platform/SuperFamicom.
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* ''Series/BetweenTheLines1992''. Tony Clark meets John Deakin in a SmokyGentlemensClub, and annoys the residents when his fancy new mobile phone rings and he doesn't know how to answer it. One of the old duffers grabs the phone off him and swiftly presses the correct buttons to do so.
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* ''Series/MrBean'': ''Electricity itself'' acts strangely around Bean, televisions displaying snow as he passes by, and a novelty static generator giving him a strange humming energy field that makes things stick to him.

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* ''Series/MrBean'': ''Electricity itself'' acts strangely around Bean, televisions displaying snow static as he passes by, and a novelty static Van de Graaff generator giving him a strange humming energy field that makes things stick to him.
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* ''Series/MrBean'': ''Electricity itself'' acts strangely around Bean, televisions displaying snow as he passes by, and a novelty static generator giving him a strange humming energy field that makes things stick to him.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens wrecks Penny’s computer through a series of mishaps in "The Autobiography." Among other things, she manages to shut down the machine's firewall, pop-up blocker, and antivirus protection immediately after going on it, as well as knocking over a nearby bottle of soda, spilling its contents into the computer.

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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens wrecks Penny’s Penny's computer through a series of mishaps in "The Autobiography." Among other things, she manages to shut down the machine's firewall, pop-up blocker, and antivirus protection immediately after going on it, as well as knocking over a nearby bottle of soda, spilling its contents into the computer.
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* ''Literature/StarterVillain'': The first time Gratas attempts to deliver an ultimatum to Charlie via Zoom, he is muted at the start of the call and forgot to encrypt it, so Charlie hangs up on him before either of them can say anything incriminating over an open line. Gratas makes the same mistakes the second call too.

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* ''Literature/StarterVillain'': ''Literature/StarterVillain2023'': The first time Gratas attempts to deliver an ultimatum to Charlie via Zoom, he is muted at the start of the call and forgot to encrypt it, so Charlie hangs up on him before either of them can say anything incriminating over an open line. Gratas makes the same mistakes the second call too.
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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens wrecks Penny’s computer through a series of mishaps in “The Autobiography.”

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* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Mittens wrecks Penny’s computer through a series of mishaps in “The "The Autobiography." Among other things, she manages to shut down the machine's firewall, pop-up blocker, and antivirus protection immediately after going on it, as well as knocking over a nearby bottle of soda, spilling its contents into the computer.

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