In world war IV, I’d say.

My mom (78) got a new kindle a couple years ago, after the previous one lasting over 10 years.

She’s not been using it now because “it’s not okay” anymore. After a lot of poking and prodding remotely (we live in different countries) to get to understand what the issue was for the kindle to “not be okay”, I managed to get her to tell me that “the screen is blank”. I said I’d check it soon after when I went to her place.

When I travelled there, not long after, I checked the kindle, turned on the screen, and it was blank. Because she’d finished a book and the last page was blank. All worked fine.

I have told her, but she refuses to use the kindle because “it’s not okay”.

In a separate conversation I offered to give my sister my really old kindle as hers is actually broken. My mom heard that and said she wanted it because hers is… Not okay.

The insistence and willful ignoring of what I said is the most infuriating part.

Mine is Clippy, but it’s constantly retrieving information from the wrong word document.

“Hey, it looks like you’re on holiday abroad. Would you like to take your car to the garage? The MOT expires tomorrow.”

“Hey, would you like some help researching this really interesting camera equipment during working hours?”

“Hey, I see you’re going to the gym. Let me remind you of all the tasks you need to do at home and now you won’t have time to do: (…)”