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đ STOP: before you give someone less technical advice about computers:Do the… |
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@0xabad1dea Obligatory xkcd |
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Examples of things that people with average computer literacy can âjustâ do… |
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@0xabad1dea just is a 4 letter word! |
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@0xabad1dea Some people struggle with rebooting unfortunately... |
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@gudenau "average" is a load-bearing adjective in this construct |
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@0xabad1dea ââŚin a special dialect of C++ that just needs a particular buil… |
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@0xabad1dea That's the problem: Computers were not invented for people with… |
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@0xabad1dea yes! So much of all of this. The expectations and elitism of some p… |
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@techvvitch @0xabad1dea they're not intentionally being assholes y'know… |
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@techvvitch @0xabad1dea it is just as unreasonable of you, to expect your compu… |
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@hyc @techvvitch my sibling in posting I think I see why youâve gotten a lot … |
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@0xabad1dea The DunningâKruger effect is usually defined specifically for the… |
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@0xabad1dea Squints... The first three points certainly don't fall into &q… |
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a clarifying followup thought: âjust use Linuxâ is implicitly in the contex… |
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@0xabad1dea I think I don't understand how your two paragraphs connect beca… |
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@typhon in the context of someone casually giving you the advice in response to… |
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@0xabad1dea "Just" don't do tech support. Does your friend the l… |
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@0xabad1dea I get all of that, but I dont understand why android is not just fi… |
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@domo "people understand, for example, what a pancake is" "why d… |
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@0xabad1dea The problem with a lot of these "on ramps" is that "… |
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@dalias an "on-ramp" is definitionally not a final destination. The p… |
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@0xabad1dea i did a whole-ass talk about this back in the before-times, largely… |
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@0xabad1dea my point of view on this is that I spent a long time unearthing arc… |
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90% of y'all are sending fine, decent, reasonable replies but the other 10%… |
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@0xabad1deaDo they really "just" need to do what you're recommend… |
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@0xabad1dea ...which for many many peoples' use-cases, would boil down to t… |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea My package manager regularly provides a window telling me … |
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@Epic_Null @0xabad1dea Sure. I run Garuda (Arch derivative) which doesn't, … |
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Post #AvlGu3aKspiVXEi5aK by [email protected] |
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@bytebro @Epic_Null @0xabad1dea it's not safe to update with a graphical pa… |
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@nathanu @bytebro @0xabad1dea I made my home in the Debian derivatives. Current… |
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@hyc @techvvitch @0xabad1dea I'm having difficulty understanding how you re… |
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@hyc (And yeah, I know you stopped reading halfway through; that's more for… |
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@0xabad1dea Yeah this attitude really pisses me off as someone who is very pass… |
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@0xabad1dea when somebody asks "will you fix my computer?" I'm li… |
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@stonebear2 @0xabad1dea Yep. I don't even remember how to do anything on W… |
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@0xabad1dea *nods* I keep two sets of advice: one for Matilda the Musician who… |
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@0xabad1dea This is true, but when I worked in a public library computer lab te… |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea > teaching themjust try it |
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@0xabad1dea @typhon And print documents... |
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@typhon @0xabad1dea I use Ubuntu & really like it. Once you are up and runn… |
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@typhon @0xabad1dea People have trouble switching systems because they don'… |
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@0xabad1deaI think there's many people who feel they know some software or … |
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@0xabad1deaThe percentage of people trying to learn a weird penguin OS that hav… |
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@gudenau @0xabad1dea I would still guess you can *probably* get them to reboot … |
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@JamesWidman @0xabad1deaPoint, but one could actually just write a script and s… |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea i re-issue my suggestion from above |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea it is easyâno, *effortless*âto forget what it was lik… |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea most of all, it's effortless for us to ignore all the … |
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@stonebear2 @0xabad1dea endorcism, probably |
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@0xabad1dea Yeah I get that. My concern is that it's not even clearly in th… |
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@ptesarik @0xabad1dea This is one of the hardest and also saddest truths about … |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea Yes, you're wrong, sorry. Or maybe not so much? In my … |
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@thedoctor @0xabad1dea Ah well, yes, they all work easily until they don't.… |
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@0xabad1dea just do it |
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@0xabad1dea I don't even know which Linux I should be installing on these 2… |
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@0xabad1dea I don't know you but I think I love you already for this |
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@dave_cochran I read it. And there you go, making your own baseless assumptions… |
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@0xabad1dea I *just* (hahahahah) read an article on a left progressive digital … |
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@Epic_Null I like Mint enough that I have it in a VM, and now and again I drop … |
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@hyc @techvvitch @0xabad1dea yea, this is tough. I recently learned that two wo… |
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@0xabad1dea @techvvitch and attitudes like that are why you'll always have … |
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@bytebro @0xabad1dea Please don't do pacman -Sy, it's not safe, kids! |
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@0xabad1dea My 84 year old dad has been using Linux Mint for over 7 years. Most… |
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@dramforever @gudenau @0xabad1dea Reboot used to be easy for average users, jus… |
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@Epic_Null @bytebro @0xabad1dea yea, I recommend people start with Fedora KDE t… |
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@0xabad1dea @becomethewaifu > - just refrain from decking your smug âhelpf… |
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@bytebro @Epic_Null @0xabad1dea Mint is nice. |
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@0xabad1dea Humility is exhausting, and in any case takes away from valuable ti… |
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@ptesarik @0xabad1dea Computers also had the name "workstationâ, designe… |
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@0xabad1dea TIL the switch runs FreeBSD. Neat! |
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@0xabad1dea Just use an iPhone - the wifi chip on iPhones run Linux! |
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@0xabad1dea +1 for> - just refrain from decking your smug âhelpfulâ comp… |
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@hyc "You're sitting there telling other people they have to change fo… |
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Recently I discovered that a significant fraction of dutch people born after th… |
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@dave_cochran no, it's the same. Which is exactly what I said before "… |
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@hyc So if we're both being unreasonable by asking the other to change, the… |
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I can't prove it, didn't do the research, so this is pure speculation: … |
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@JamesWidmanInteresting point. I'm now retired, and seriously thinking abou… |
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@stonebear2 @0xabad1dea, https://wiki.lspace.org/Insorcism |
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@aka_quant_noir @0xabad1dea Great! Now the contrary of your example is that my … |
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@ariadna @ptesarik @0xabad1dea Yes. I keep trying to think about how best to ta… |
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@Akki @0xabad1dea A lot of my generation aren't computer literate too. But … |
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@bytebro that's fine, but... once you mention "hackspace", you… |
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@JamesWidman Sure. Some people will just go back to 'the store'. Others… |
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@bytebro hard mode would be teaching people about linux in some communal space … |
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@bytebro i feel like part of the problem (which i think is solvable!) is that w… |
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@bytebro You could start with elementary students, right after they've lear… |
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@bytebro E.g. you only need 3 types of instuctionâadd, compare, conditional j… |
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@bytebro Ideally, you'd initially go through these motions without any elec… |
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@bytebro anyway, sorry for throwing a book at you!(this stuff has been rattling… |
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@JamesWidman Get you. My 'gift', if you like, was that when I started o… |
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Post #Avmd2oEdiR9igT6Hr6 by [email protected] |
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@Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff @stonebear2 @0xabad1dea I usually* get lost tryin… |
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@seindal @stonebear2 @0xabad1dea I literally just drop to a TTY and type powero… |
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@dave_cochran @techvvitch @0xabad1dea "it's not that fucking hard"… |
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@hyc @techvvitch @0xabad1dea bro, i am adhd, probably on the spectrum, and have… |
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@dave_cochranI have never before seen the description "kermit-flailing&quo… |
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@bobjonkman verbing funs language! đ |
