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But on the flip side. If you tell somebody something they don't know like:
'You can open links in new tabs by klicking on them with the mouse wheel.'
Or
'You can reopen closed tabs by pressing Ctrl+Shift+T'
They look at you like you've just shown them the meaning of life. Bonus points if you see them using it later.
Man, 2 weeks into an IT job, we're doing a presentation and our VP of IT accidentally closed a tab. Felt like a wizard being the only person in the room, somehow, who knew that hotkey.
You can what?!
Having spent many years in tech support and also being my family tech support, this post pains me.greatly.
I get to see other people ways of using the computer daily.
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Start Menu: Microsoft PowerPoint
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File: Save: Presentation943.ppt
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Printer: Microsoft Print to PDF
Save: Presentation943.pdf
Start Menu: Microsoft Edge
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C:\Users\Windows\Jimmy\Desktop\Presentation943.pdf
/wrists
That's brilliantly told.
I am a little proud of the little details
But only a little, right?
There has to be some shame for knowing how to do something so stupidly.
Watching my partner play a FPS game has the same energy
there is a reason i use i3wm on linux.
You cannot use my computer, it is impossible.
Part of the reason I installed Arch (BTW) is to see the looks of confusion and concern on my family's faces as I'm computationizing
I have never installed pure arch. I like endeavor OS.
ah, the feels of keyboard(mostly)only navigation.
bonus points to get someone to quit vim.
I had a friend once come over and was trying to do something on my computer, and it wasn't working. I tell him exactly what to do, and it doesn't work. I watch him do exactly what needs to be done, and it still doesn't work.
I take control, doing the exact same thing we tried 3 times already... and it works.
I'm convinced electronics just hate some people and refuse to work for them.
I completely agree. I work in IT, a lot of times I can see that people have taken the exact actions I would, just with no success, until I do it. I always say that it's like the boss walking in a room and suddenly everyone stops misbehaving.
Over the years I've become accustomed to a highly customised, privacy centric, keyboard-driven workflow that makes heavy use of tiling and modality.
I'm also "the technical one" in my family and friend group...
So when people sit me down in front of their bloated, ad-powered, AI "enhanced," stock laptops, and ask me to, essentially spend an hour learning about an obscure Windows problem space, then debugging and implementing the fix, I don't blame them for not realising the pain they cause me.
About 10 years ago, I told everyone I helped that I either installed Linux or they were on their own. And I was never going to physically hold an iPhone unless it was to free them up to go find a hammer.
When they dont use keyboard shortcuts.
Select text -> Edit menu -> Copy, click elsewhere -> Edit menu -> Paste 🤮
Not knowing Ctrl+shift+esc opens the task manager is one thing, but copy and paste should be taught in school.
Seeing people with respectable typing speed using just their two index fingers. What a waste. They could have been great.
Your words do not hurt me, I'm already used to being a diappointment.
Watching somebody scroll to the bottom of a very long list by clicking the arrow button under the scrollbar is my idea of hell.
watching my boss shut down the front desk computer at EOD:
"you know, instead of clicking the X on 5 windows, you can hit ctrl+shift+Q once and save all that wasted time clicking. AND it saves me time tomorrow by opening all the windows at once, instead of only the last one you closed"
"oh, thanks! you know all the time-savers"
next day:
back to clicking every X
Go on a older person's phone. Whenever I have to do anything on my mom's phone, it gives me a headache. Everything is too bright and big and unorganized and has so man notifications! And her phone is much newer than mine and it's still hard for me.
My mom refuses to turn off notifications from apps so there are constantly 30-40 notifications. Making it completely unusable.
I just don't get it, you can control how your phone works but people act like they can't do a thing
When I'm in the passenger seat, I push on the imaginary brake. When I'm watching someone on a computer, I'm pushing shortcuts on the imaginary keyboard.