I feel like other people feel the same way when the see me using vim. I know how to switch between view and edit mode and I know how to quit, but for everything else I need to use help.
And this is why Copilot failed. It’s bad enough watching a human do dumb shit on a computer, but having to watch a dipshit AI fumble around on your machine just takes it to a whole new level.
Watching someone use a laptop with a trackpad only when there’s a mouse right there is my hell.
Double clicking links
It’s not just doing it differently, it’s doing it wrongly!!!
If I’m watching someone do something differently than I do, it’s often fun to ask them why. You might pick up a new technique, or see how you’ve been doing something that’s holding you back.
…but when I’m watching someone else use a computer, it just drives home how they don’t know what they’re doing, but just following basic steps that they (probably) learned one time from some other fool that probably learned from some community computer class where typing was considered an advanced topic. It’s not seeing someone cut against the grain of the wood rather than with it, but rather watching them use a router to cut a 2x4 in half.
I can forgive someone for not knowing that control+c/v doesn’t work in a terminal (the first few times) (or doesn’t work like they expected, more accurately) or why, but I can’t grasp how we can be 20 years past common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system… and people still struggle to use the mouse.
common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system… and people still struggle to use the mouse.
Not to larp on the younger generations, but interacting with computers through touch screens is likely a major culprit here. Why would you know how to navigate file structures, or even open a terminal, when they were given an iPad when they were 5 years old?
control+c/v doesn’t work in a terminal
cackles maniacally in macOS
Works on windows too. That was a bit of a learning curve for me switching to Linux
To be fair, you can just change your shortcuts in the terminal preferences.
Yes, yes, now go donate some more money to your turtlenecks so they can pass it along to trump.
It’s easier to like the OS when I’m not the one paying for the overpriced hardware
My little sister used to sometimes stand over me while I played computer games. She’d suggest moves and I’d be thankful at first, but at a certain point she was directing all my moves and I’d be like “just play the game on your own device if you want to play it”. She seemed to prefer telling someone else how to play than play her own game
I’m bad for that watching my boy play slay the spire.
I can force myself to keep quiet until around act 2. Then the “advice” starts leaking out.
Im the elder millennial who helps explain shit to both my older and younger coworkers about our computers (as well as printers and copiers and shredser). Its maddening how some of them use the computer.
I know the struggle. I work with people in their 20s and people in their 60s, with various language barriers between us. The IT department should pay me because I save them 5 calls a day. Why can’t they ever see what I’m telling them to click? And why do they just click on anything when they don’t see it?
O my god the random clicking… why just why?
We have language barriers with a lot of customers (thank god for internet translate), but thankfully me and the coworkers all speak same language.
I remember vividly watching someone type in the address bar of their browser “google”, and hit enter. It took them to the google results page from which they pressed on the first result, google.com, and only then did they proceed to type in their search term.
Someone out there has written a browser plugin where, if you search for Google, it just gives back a page that says “No. Just type in the search query in that bar up top.”
Was it an older person? I remember when a big selling point of chrome was you could search Google from the address bar rather than going to Google.com. On a related note, have you seen my walker?
Technically, less typing! Well fix your default search is what I tell em and I charge 37500 dollars! That’s a lie but I wouldn’t lie to the internet
“I lied. But actually I would never lie. That’s the fake news media that says I lie. I knew they would because they’re terrible people.”
Opens word, goes to file, then open… Can’t remember where the file is located.
Opens file manager, SUCCESS! Uses search instead of spending 1 week looking for the file down 100 subfolders. Right-clicks file, open location 🤔 (yeah, not just open).
Goes back to word by hovering the pointer all the way to the Word icon on the taskbar (because fuck ALT-Tab), navigate to the folder containing the file as found in the file manager. Scroll 11 pages because the files are organized by type. Clicks file, ONCE, clocks open.
Finally, aaaaand…
BSOD 😭
that’s why you install some niche Linux distro with you own I3WM rice. no one will be able to touch your computer
I installed “Yantra launcher” on my phone, now no one manage to use my phone
If only you can add tmux too
My keybinds are made for my own mind and my mind alone.
Me while I’m setting my keybindings: “This is genius! Absolutely pure genius! What an elegant solution. This will be the new industry standard. This is history in the making.”
One week later: “What did I set it to again?”
AntiX with IceWM 🤣
As part of my career in software design, I used to run A/B testing and usability tests. This meant sitting with users and watching them use the software. Since IUE (initial user experience) was very important, this often included inexperienced users.
The data was absolutely worth it, and definitely improved my designs, but it took a lot of patience to watch people struggle and fail without intervening or saying anything that would affect the results. It was rewarding, but sometimes excruciating.
Did you ever get any power users who raged at the lack of command line switches or something like that?
Nothing that techy. I did include power users in tests, but their requests were usually for specific hotkeys or to have their favourite (and lesser used by most users) feature front and centre.
It can be difficult to balance a UI for inexperienced and power users, but watching them interact with prototypes and the actual software does help.
This meant sitting with users and watching them use the software.
How did you manage not to strangle anyone, nor jump out of the window?
Yeah, sometimes it really hurt.
They’d probably have to put me behind glass or just make me watch a tape like it’s an old handegg practice session.
Nah, they’ll just lock you in a cuck cage
It works in reverse too. Someone telling you to do something and then you do that and then they start interrupting because they have no idea of how you do it.
uses windows and edge. 3 different antivirus softwares running. 99 tabs open. pressing keys with a single finger and 3 second search time for every letter. copy with right mouse click. every adress in the mail is added with cc instead of bcc.
uses only microsoft word on the most overpowered modern pc the world has ever seen. somehow still manages to exhaust its power.
99 tabs open.
Rookie numbers.
as my family’s tech support, i fully concur
