Watching my dad right-click, and select "Copy" from the popup menu...
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I don't watch my dad use the computer anymore as I feel the same as the one in the comic.
That time I saw him log in to his yahoo email (tldr; my dad uses google to go to yahoo)
- Open Chrome (which I set google.com as the homepage)
- Type in yahoo.com to the search bar
- Click yahoo.com from the results
- Click on the Mail button thing somewhere in that page
Or that one time I asked him to login to to gmail account while he was browsing his yahoo email. (tldr; my dad does not believe in tabs)
- Close his Chrome browser with the yahoo email.
- Open Chrome again
- Type in gmail in the google search bar
- Click mail.google.com from the results.
This was painful to read. :|
Oh... Oh No. Closing the entire browser to open a new tab. I don't blame you at all for not being able to watch.
This just made me miss my dad so much. Pain.
I read the TL;DRs knowing what was going to happen only to continue reading and feel physical pain. What’s wrong with me…
There was a recurring gag on Parks And Rec about Pawnee internet users needing Altavista so they could use it to navigate to Google. That joke felt very real.
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At least he right-clicked instead of going for the menu at the top!
My Dad has had a post-it note above his computer for years, "Crl-C Copy, Crl-V Paste"
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Its so rough watching non vimmers use vim
a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.
- Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of
/ - Using
:wqa!and then reopening the editor instead of just using:w - Deleting an entire line by hitting
xrepeatedly - Adding to the end of a like by pressing
iand then the right arrow key until they're at the end of a line
STOP! You're scaring the children!
Deleting an entire line by hitting x repeatedly
The first time I ever touched Double Ds was in vim.
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I've heard some people even use :wq over :x
….I’ve been using :wq for years…
Repent! Imagine all of the wasted productivity! Ahhhhhhhhh
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At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It's painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.
You can share it at [email protected] I'm sure people (me included) would love to use it
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Are you kidding? I remove nano on purpose so I can sit there and watch them struggle!
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I have a coworker whose default mode of thinking is to manually type everything. He knows about things like tab completion and copy-paste, but for some reason those two things just aren't baked into his brain as a natural reflex like it is for most people. Like if he has to put a URL or database connection string in a config file somewhere, he'll start manually typing the string one character at a time, and will keep alt-tabbing between the config file he's editing and the email or whatever that has the reference string.
It drives me up a wall.
I bet he is paid per hour
I did a short stint as a video editor at a local news channel. Had one colleague who made it a point to lean back and touch the keyboard as little as humanly possible, and use the mouse for everything. It was excruciating to watch him work. He was fairly experienced btw, so I'm sure he could have done the work much quicker, he just chose not to.
This comment made me physically recoil in disgust. Great job.
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Comic good. Post title bad.
Come on. Dude. Give credit where credit is due. SMH...
The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.
Makes me glad I'm a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn't so "nice" to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.
Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn't want to get a virus.
My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school -- her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.
The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon
I'll add "it's not their fault". In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we've removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.
Very interesting! It’s something I just cannot fathom as a 20-something year old. Granted, I’m a software engineer, but I’m very much like the professors in the article. It’s just so intuitive to me.
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thats literally my job (web development teacher)
You poor soul.
clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel
right click -> copy; right click -> paste
Mouse? OG experts fumble with the touchpad and touchpad buttons to drag the scrollbar down inch by inch.
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Wanna make it worse? Have the dummy user mumble-read EVERY. FRIGGING. WORD.
We found out that one of our co workers created tables of formulas in excel, then input a table in Word to manually type in and transfer over the table data. And of course the same formulas needed to be run through a desk calculator once more in case excel got that wrong the first time. Jaw dropping (when that person was shown about this magical copy/ paste feature, it was their jaw that dropped lol)
eye twitches
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He's copy and pasting uaing the right click menu
I've been watching game grumps playing TOTK and every time Arin opens the full inventory to change weapons, I die a little on the inside.
Older scrum masters during the daily standup and trying to do live updates to the JIRA board
Turned 15 minute meeting into 30 minutes at times lol.
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Uses vim with arrow keys
This is what training new folks looks like. Even something as simple as a browser; watching someone click into the address bar and hit enter just to refresh the page, hurts my soul.
La* torture
This is nightmare fuel
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