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Vast Number of Windows Users Refusing to Upgrade After Microsoft's Embrace of AI Slop (futurism.com)
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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

People don't need to type console commands. They're just the easiest way to tell someone how to do something in text.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Every computer on every operating system, will inevitably face an issue of some kind at some point. Something you need to troubleshoot.

    And if 100% of the troubleshooting is to copy/paste commands into terminal? Yeah. It IS necessary to type things into terminal.

    This isn't a case of "Terminal is the easy way, but you can find help tutorials using the GUI."

    This is a case of every tutorial is "copy/paste these commands into your terminal, and if something goes wrong you better know what the errors are even saying"

    So when a non techie sees "python error", their reaction will be "THERE ARE SNAKES INSIDE MY PC??? THEY'RE CAUSING ERRORS!!!"

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Some of my favourite ones from trying to learn this new system include:

    • invalid argument

    Uh... I just typed in a magic incantation that takes up two lines on this text thing.

    Which. Fucking. One!?

    • no such file or directory

    The final three words above apply here too. I got this one because a file I downloaded that was supposed to do something had ...insert long string of technobabble from SO that included the word shahbang, I swear! It took him over ten minutes to find whatever all the treknobabble he uttered meant and then half a second to fix.

    So it's not even fear that's at issue. It's blank incomprehension when the error message is about as useful as those dummy lights in '80s-era cars that just said "ENGINE".

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