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  • I think there’s a certain kind of user who doesn’t really learn concepts, but rote actions. They click the start menu and then excel to open excel, but they don’t really understand that the start menu is an application launcher and Excel is an application that can be opened in other ways. It’s very one dimensional.

    Then when something changes, like the application launcher is moved, they freak out. They don’t have a mental model.

    That’s how my mother is, anyway. It’s all magic with no underlying coherent anything. Not sure how to fix that, because it usually comes up when they’re mad or scared, and that’s not a time anyone will learn.



  • You want a coal plant cool, BUT if it is spewing crap into the air that we breath, it violates NAP and not allowed to operate.

    Most of the libertarians I’ve met don’t seem to believe that sort of thing. They might accept that punching someone is bad, but something complex like pollution they don’t accept.

    “I should be free to dump my garbage on my property! It’s mine!”

    “Yeah, but then you pollute the river and everyone down stream suffers”

    “…it’s my property!”







  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networktoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    11 days ago

    My old desktop couldnt update to 11. But for my newer computer, Windows recall was a deciding factor. Fuck that shit. Also fuck their “ai” nonsense.

    It’s nice that it’s free and doing little to nothing contrary to my interests.








  • Do you actually do work or are you one of those middle-men that add dubious value?

    And, like, do you think I can read my coworker’s screen from across the room and be like “Ah yes, that is TransferProjectView.py. I should tell him that I am also planning on touching that file”?

    And adults can learn to explicitly communicate. It’s not impossible. You just type into the box.



  • It’s frustrating because management are so colossally, transparently, stupid but they get the big paychecks and the workers get fucked. And then like half the workers sit there going “Well this is just and fair. this is a good world. If the people actually doing the work had more of a say, that’s communism and thus axiomatically bad”