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Bullshit (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 150 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It’s 100 % because you no longer need to understand how information technology works in order to use it.

So our parents didn’t know because the tech didn’t exist (or came late in their life), and our kids because they never needed to learn.

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  • [–] 72 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I work in an industry where we use computers all day and this is painfully clear. I grew up with a mouse in my hand, shortcuts are hardwired into my brain. Watching someone right click them slowly move the cursor to copy, then right click and slowly move to paste, then slowly navigate to formulas then click refresh is brutal. It literally takes them 3-4x as long as it takes me to do the same task.

    On the bright side, I only work about 20 hours a week and still outperform them, so thanks I guess?

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  • [–] 46 points 9 months ago

    I was hella unemployed for a while, and the job centre asked me if I was good with computers. I replied "not really. I cab do a little HTML, and can sort of read JS and C++/C# but can't really write anything with them" so they sent me on a course so I could brush up on my computer skills to improve my prospects of getting a job.

    I spent my first lesson teaching everyone else what the difference between left click and right click was, and how the little arrow moves when you wiggle the mouse.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Gen X here and I memorized only 3 shortcuts: cut, copy, and paste

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I've gotta have my Ctrl+T and Ctrl+N and of course my Ctrl+W. And you KNOW I've got my Ctrl+Shift versions of everything, naturally. Oh man, and my Windows+Tab, how could I forget you?

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I can't count the times Ctrl+Shift+T has saved my browsers sessions. Or when I close a tab and 5 seconds later think, wait I needed that one.

    Also je youtube player controls. J, K, L, etc. Got so annoyed by the video player not responding to spacebar because the video wasn't focused that I just stopped using the spacebar.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Youtube's controls are stupid. Left and right skip 5 seconds forward and backward respectively, and up and down adjust the volume.

    However, if you've recently adjusted the volume slider with the mouse, then left and right ALSO adjust volume, and can't be used to skip forward/backward anymore until you unfocus the volume bar.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, those annoying people who need accessibility and navigate web pages via keyboard focus, they ruined YouTube controls for the rest of us.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    The issue is that the keyboard focus changes with normal usage, and impairs normal usage. If you go to jump back with left arrow, and accidentally touch down arrow, the focus is unrecoverably moved and you can't even pause anymore.

    This wouldn't be a problem if using the mouse or the up/down arrows didn't focus the volume slider. Tab should be perfectly capable of moving the focus if you want to focus volume specifically, especially as volume has dedicated shortcuts already.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Also win+space to switch from English to Japanese and back! And inside that, shift+caps to switch between kana and kanji, and romaji!

    (I’m on Mint, but I changed the shortcuts to be Windows default because that’s what I’m used to. Still works great, sometimes I hamfist the wrong kanji in the sentence because I’m just not looking too closely, but I’ve seen native English speakers abuse the shit out of “your” and “there”.)

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's partially that. It's also because printers do suck more now. Had an HP 5p in the 90s that was a workhorse, reliable as hell, and would simply print whatever you sent. period.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I tried older HP PSC 1315 on Windows 11.
    Windows 11: Cannot find drivers, use manufacturer's website.
    HP: Windows will automatically download drivers, no downloads are provided.

    Uuuh... thanks?

    Soooooo... archive.org.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I feel like there was definitely a golden age for printers, because when I was a kid we had an Epson Stylus Color 800 that was literally Satan crammed into a shitty beige box, but my HP LaserJet from like 2012 is still going strong.

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