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This is my dad in a nutshell. I'll tell him about something simple on either his laptop or on whatever app he's using on the smart TV and he'll tell me to be quiet and that he can figure it out. I definitely think it's a pride thing in us males. That, or he's getting old and doesn't want to deal with the realization that he doesn't fully understand modern technology anymore.
My dad used to absolutely love gadgets, but couldn't understand how to work any of them. So he'd buy the latest tech of whatever interested him, try it once or twice, get tired of trying to figure it out, then let it sit in a closet for a year until I asked if I could have it and he said yes.
That's how I ended up having stuff like a video titling system for home video tapes in the 90s and could make cool title screens for all the videos I pirated.
Oh yeah, he also had a dual-deck VCR which had the ability to beat the VHS anti-piracy technology. Now that he did figure out how to use and we copied a lot of stuff from the video store. Also, to his credit, he did know how to program a VCR.