How do I convince my 66 year old ex-soviet mother that Wi-Fi won’t give her cancer.

why do you keep mentioning ex soviet? is that relevant to her thinking? if so you might have to start there

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.

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.

This is giving signs of underlying mental health issues - pls get her checked by a healthcare professional. As such you trying to reason with her is not going to help !!

Just change the system for her. She clearly won't have a scooby how to undo things!

What do you mean change the system?

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.

Set her up with a wifi system and take away the ethernet cable. Then tell her if she breaks it again she will need to pay for your train fare back because you can't afford this nonsense.

I'm a bit confused. In your last thread about your mother (see below) you said that she wouldn't turn the lights on, ate raw food and unplugged the fridge to save money. Yet now she's using a desktop and charging her smartphone. What's going on?

https://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7397020

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.

What makes you think I have any authority over her lol? You think she's going to listen to me and seek help?