For fucks sake, mum. You have been working with computers since the seventies. How can you not know a single one of your passwords?
For fucks sake, mum. You have been working with computers since the seventies. How can you not know a single one of your passwords?
Instead of complaining, introduce her to password managers - then she only needs to remember one pw.
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Then she will just forget the password to the password manager.
My moms password manager, is just my password manager. (That’s not entirely true, she did figure it out eventually, but for a while there I was simply saving all her account passwords in my manager.)
She needs to keep track of two-three passwords. Yet every time it is “how should I know the password?” I don’t think it would make any difference if it was only one and a password manager adds one more layer of confusion when I’m doing remote tech support over the phone.
I’d say tell her to write it down, but my MIL always writes them down wrong.
I share your frustration. Both of my parents have multiple sheets of paper next to their computers with “all” of their passwords written on them, but when they need tech support (i.e., me), the password they need is never on there.
Have you considered the possibility that this could be a subconscious act by your mom to communicate with you, a way to ensure she gets to talk to you more frequently than otherwise?
We talk on the phone at least once a week. Unfortunately I think she is getting old.
Shit (and menopause) happens. Time for post it notes.
I think her menopause was twenty years ago.
Won’t work, they’ll refuse to learn how that works and ask even more questions afterwards