you care about your system not failing prematurely

As you said, YMMV - I’ve seen times when that would be true, and times when it was harder the other way (including an aged aunt saying “they took away my home...”, because the kids couldn’t be bothered to help anymore, and another that was dangerous because they let her keep the car (with a warning sign on it not to…

My grandmother had dementia. Every day she would ask where her husband was. He died 30 years prior. She didn’t remember all that time without him. When she’d find out he died, it was like the first time: Shock, horror, grief, despair.

Counter-point: my office went Mac for laptops a few years back and they all failed quicker than the Dell run of the mill boring laptops we had before and the ones we had after. We only got about 3-4 years out of them whereas we’re routinely getting about 8-10 years out of our Dell machines. We do upgrade every 3-5…

I don't get why, if your wife is the specialist, you feel you have any room to refer to that in your commentary here. If she were a surgeon would you be giving surgery advice?

But the problem comes when they insist on doing the driving. 

IN THE OPENING PASSAGE, it’s revealed that he’s still functional enough to be completely living on his own.

He has nothing to offer except his wife’s bona fides.

But a “broken down” down car isn’t any sort of real inconsistency. It’s something that happens, and has surely happened to the person before. I guess you might argue there are ways of preventing driving without something having to be “broken”, but this way isn’t putting them any more mentally out of sorts, it’s just…

They have said he didn’t fret about it. He tried, he went on to something else with no drama.

Not feeling you here, at all. Had a broadly similar situation with my Grandmother when my Grandfather died. She could not remember from day to day that he died. If you told her, she would be overwhelmed with grief and wailing and carrying on and it would ruin the whole day for everyone in the household. We quickly…

Went through this with my Grandmother when my Grandfather died. Basically had to tell her every day that he died - it was awful. So we started just saying he was working late. She was perfectly fine with that, no drama at all.

“Torch is advocating Elder Abuse.”

You’re being ridiculous.

“It’s established medical practice that you don’t play games with the elderly”

“Much more humane to present a plausible, consistent explanation”

My grandfather had spare keys to his S10 hidden all over the place (garage, basement, etc.) so taking the keys never worked because he always found a spare somewhere. My parents bought the truck from my grandma, and my mom would have to tell him daily “Thank you, Dad, for letting us borrow the truck for a while. It…

He wasn’t complaining about the cost of RAM; but the install cost of it. Note that it costs s2600 to install an additional 128gig when he found the same chips for $600. Two grand for a few minutes work is a bit insane; and if you are a small business or contractor - something worth looking at saving.

This has been Apple’s game for decades now but to get Apple people to realize that they’re overpaying is impossible. Years back now my boss and I were trying to get the newspaper we worked for to buy PCs instead of Macs. We gave the manager a whole bunch of info about how PCs can run graphic design software just as…

Apple is sitting on over $190 billion in CASH. Repeat that number: $190,000,000,000—concentrated in one company for which Microsoft threw a lifeline to keep Apple going. You think Apple rose from being so destitute by doing you customers a favor*?