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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 7 hours ago

Watching my partner play a FPS game has the same energy

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] marximilian 2 points 7 hours ago

You can what?!

[–] vismeg@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago

completely agree

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 42 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Edit: Cut

Edit: Paste (back in same spot so you don't use the original)

Start Menu: Microsoft PowerPoint

File:New Slide Show

New Slide

Edit: Paste

File: Save: Presentation943.ppt

File:Print

Printer: Microsoft Print to PDF

Save: Presentation943.pdf

Start Menu: Microsoft Edge

Bing Search:Google.com

Google.com search:Yahoo Mail

New email

To:chiliedogg

Subject: link

Message Text:

C:\Users\Windows\Jimmy\Desktop\Presentation943.pdf

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago
[–] GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I am a little proud of the little details

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

There has to be some shame for knowing how to do something so stupidly.

[–] spamellama@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

Murder she wrote

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

there is a reason i use i3wm on linux.

You cannot use my computer, it is impossible.

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

ah, the feels of keyboard(mostly)only navigation.

bonus points to get someone to quit vim.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

I have never installed pure arch. I like endeavor OS.

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 8 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I had to watch someone use emacs today.

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

did they have a foot pedal?

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 1 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

I told them to run git rebase -i, and they never configured their $EDITOR or their git editor, so it opened in vim and I had to intervene.

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 minutes ago

heh nice one.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago

You never quit Emacs. You just... die...

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago
[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago

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.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

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.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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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[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Seeing people with respectable typing speed using just their two index fingers. What a waste. They could have been great.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Your words do not hurt me, I'm already used to being a diappointment.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 10 points 23 hours ago

The fingers aren't the bottleneck, it's the brain. I type just as fast with two fingers as with ten.

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[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 45 points 1 day ago (17 children)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T USE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

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