She still has her desktop in the kitchen, plugged into the router with an ethernet cable. She’s had 2 monitors break in the last year, probably because she’s keeping her computer in a room that gets steamy twice a day, every day (she cooks a lot and closes the door so the steam doesn’t go into the rest of the house). I told her to move her desktop into the spare room, she said she doesn’t want wires going from the router to the other room, so I suggested she get a wireless adapter (the USB type you just plug in) and she said no. Her reasoning- she thinks wireless causes cancer. She’s 66 years old, ex-soviet, been using a brick phone since the 90s, I finally convinced her to start using a smartphone only just last year, and she’s been loving it. So when it comes to refusing to have wireless internet on her desktop, this is obviously very contradictory. The reasoning that she gave me is that “a computer is bigger so there’s more cancerous radiation”. I tried explaining to her that all communications devices use radio waves. Every device, same amount, same size, same strength. I showed her diagrams. Big wave safe. Small wave dangerous. Gamma small. Radio wave big. Literally like trying to teach a big baby year 9 science. I sent articles. She still won’t stop screaming at me over the phone that it’s “cancerous radiation” and that she “thinks I’m trying to kill her”. I genuinely don’t know how to reason with her. I would just leave her be and let her live her primitive lifestyle but the consequences of it are causing me issues- I’m now having to travel to her place from uni this weekend, 5 hours there and 5 hours back, £80 in train tickets, to ‘fix it’. Basically just buy her a new monitor and plug it in for her because she can’t ******* do it herself. And it’s obviously going to break again.
Can someone please help me. How do I educate a stubborn ex-soviet boomer on something we covered in year 9 science. Because I have enough ******* issues as a university student, I don’t have time to argue with conspiracy theorists. Thanks.