Watching my partner play a FPS game has the same energy
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completely agree
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.
You can what?!
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.
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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/wrists
That's brilliantly told.
I am a little proud of the little details
But only a little, right?
Murder she wrote
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
it's definitely a benefit. It's always fun showing people how nicely you can navigate and how cleanly you can configure things.
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I had to watch someone use emacs today.
You never quit Emacs. You just... die...
Lucky!
Watching somebody scroll to the bottom of a very long list by clicking the arrow button under the scrollbar is my idea of hell.
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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.
there are benefits to being a technically advanced computer user:
- you can learn how to use linux.
- once you know how to use linux, you can stop fixing everyone elses problems for them.
Try explaining this to your family.
once you know how to use linux, you can stop fixing everyone elses problems for them.
I know you meant being able to claim "I don't use Windows" but just installing Linux has massively lowered the tech support requests I get from my parents.
yeah, installing and configuring linux for other people seems to be getting more and more popular these days. My dad now runs linux on an older thinkpad, he likes it, doesn't ask for login or any weird shenanigans, just does spreadsheets pretty much exclusively. Works great.
It's a shame how annoying most modern operating systems are these days.
What's a good parent distro in your opinion? I've been eyeing Mint since that's how I started
Seeing people with respectable typing speed using just their two index fingers. What a waste. They could have been great.
The fingers aren't the bottleneck, it's the brain. I type just as fast with two fingers as with ten.
Your words do not hurt me, I'm already used to being a diappointment.
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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.
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Calling someone to help with something is usually the best way to make it start working miraclously
There's also the phenomenon where you make a forum post and then immediately solve it after (or even before) you submit it. Although that is more because it forces you to think through the problem systematically.
The amount of posts in my reddit and lemmy drafts is massive, because i realise the answer myself.
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I had to teach my little brother how to download a exe yesterday. Like just the simple every software or game type of installation:
click download on website -> click windows version on GitHub list -> extract folder -> find exe
Quite honestly im impressed he's been using a computer for like 4 years without ever encountering a .zip file
And don't get me started with my highschool teachers. One of them got SUPER excited because I showed her how to enable looping on a YouTube video because she kept clicking replay every 3 minutes when the song ended (she plays Spanish music before class starts)
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