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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.

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Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)

made with this neat tool

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
    2·
    2 days ago

    QGIS sounds really cool! I’ll definitely bring that up so she can practice that Environmental Sciences degree. :)

    Insane about the liability angle. I had never considered that! Sounds like far too serious a business for my tastes.

    I’m glad there’s a lot of open source libraries, and Linux is heavily employed in scientific and academic circles, at least. :)

    • thevoidzero@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, I really like it. But I also started with it because my university at that time only taught open source apps, and later on other universities did Arc but I just did the same thing in QGIS. But when you’re starting it might be a little of an adjustment.

      They also just released v4.0 with full migration to qt6, I haven’t tested it out that well yet.

      Btw I am currently working on a programming language that uses custom syntax to do fun analysis related to networks (directed graphs). And I have a GIS support for reading/writing network and attributes. I made it for rivers first, but I’m expanding to all directed graph. I’ve a mix of Computer and Geosciences background so I had fun doing something in the middle that most people don’t.

      Edit: I am looking for people to try it out, but I have problem finding people that want to code in a new language, and for network related tasks.