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We're playing hide the salami and no one told us (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 3 points 4 days ago (1 child)

You generally learn how text alignment works before you learn how font masking works. This is true for multiple text handling programs, from Photoshop to word processors.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago* (2 children)

    You are welcome to believe that.

    My eyes have seen all manner of ridiculous use of Photoshop (among others).

    I have seen people write an entire damn document inside a single cell in Excel.

    I have seen people make charts in Excel, while watching them also use a calculator and enter the values manually.

    I have seen people use Word to create a photo album, just dragging them in full size, then try and "center" the text underneath by pressing space.

    I have seen people use google docs while boarding a plane, only to get mad that it doesn't work without internet once the flight took off (pre in-flight wifi era).

    I have seen people use drafts in Outlook to store their passwords.

    This has only gotten worse as people watch tutorials on advanced features while having no idea how the basic tools work.

    You can believe whatever you'd like, I'm just saying people do absolutely boneheaded and preposterous things all the time.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Decades ago, one of my first jobs was helping people learn to use a Macintosh computer, the first ones. I told a guy to use the mouse to click "New", and he put the mouse up against the screen. I'd never seen anyone do that before, but the thing is, that makes sense if you've never used a mouse.

    Just thought I'd share that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago*

    "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" - Bladerunner gif

    For real though. Maybe they did center it but there was whitespace, if we're being generous.

    I'm not pro-'AI', far from it. But I hate seeing so much energy wasted fighting amongst ourselves over these instances where, not only could it go either way, it simply doesn't matter.

    There are much more egregious examples littered everywhere, even here, where the tech is actually used perniciously.

    Gotta pick one's battles, otherwise it just distracts from the substance and generates outrage where it's not warranted.

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