I was a consultant for 40 years. I was that guy that logged in remotely and took control of your PC. People absolutely lose it. It does not matter if you tell them or try to explain to them. On countless occasions I would be on the phone with the person saying I am logging into your computer right now. They would start screaming that somebody is hacking into the machine. It would take a couple minutes to calm them down. Same thing if I said I’ll be logging in in five minutes. I would inevitably get a call from the person that I just told five minutes ago I was logging in saying somebody’s hacking their computer. I am so glad I am retired now.
Every time someone at work sees me use vim.
I don’t use computers, ever, so I never have this problem. My family has been without internet for years and my mother/sister and my father both agree things is better this way.
Posted from a 50’s toaster.
No, those don’t have internet anymore since AT&T decided to summon daemons into silicon chips. The only scientists I trust to develop technology is the Amish, some Mormons, and one long-legged, pissed off Puerto Rican.
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This is the type os sofisticated emoji we use in Alabama
Watching people struggle with the idea that there are multiple approaches to the same thing is also a great challenge.
I think there are right and wrong ways to do everything. Predicting the market. Lifting weights. Reproduction. But not art! There’s no wrong way too do art!
What kind of sick fuck taps the screen with their finger repeatedly??
Animals I tell ya
They instinctively tap on your screen even when you tell them you don’t own a touch screen.
lol I tap on my own screen when I forget which computer I’m using.
“differently than you” is a funny way to say “triple clicking a hyperlink every fucking time oh my god you only have to click it once, mom”.
Why tho? Seems no worse than riding in a car with somebody else driving - and in that situation your life is at stake.
That’s almost as bad. I don’t like being in my own car if someone else drives. “Shift mothefucker” I’d say in my head while sitting uncomfortably
with a car the other person has a licence for it, which comes with the assumption of at least some basic skills operating the device.
Users with computers? Some people really shouldn’t even approach one.
When I’m riding in a car with someone they don’t constantly make a wrong turn even though you’re pointing right at the right one. They also have an understanding of the language and the location of the controls. If I tell someone to turn up the radio they very rarely rip the rear view window off the car instead.
I have the opposite problem. I don’t care how other people set up their workflow, but I get criticized for not using the defaults while performing better. 🙄
I have the problem that I give off a vibe as an onlooker. I’m not trying to be judgmental but I guess I ooze it.
Edit: Your case makes me chuckle. I used to love watching IT struggle because I got rid of default desktop and quick launch icons. Finally we have all learned to search.
I suppose I should clarify that I’m not in IT, I live stream sports
If you try to “help” by taking control, you’ll soon find that all the similar tasks are delegated to you and no learning takes place at all. So your only option is to just watch them fail and bear suffering.
Obviously they’re wrong.
Watching someone earning triple your salary struggle to share their screen or start a presentation fullscreen
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Honestly, the fact that here in 2026, we still can’t get peripherals like audio, video, and printers to work in a 100% reliable and seamless way, is just embarrassing. It’s been over 30 years of having this stuff mostly standardized (and then re-standardized) and it’s still a shitshow.
Blame the short term focus on profit and the system we exist in. There simply is no reason for it to be stable. It’s not a life or death matter, neither for people nor for companies, hence, it will not be prioritised. The world would have to be very different for these “basic” things to be prioritised.
Printer companies keep them bad on purpose so you’ll buy new printers hoping they fixed it (or at the high end pay for their maintenance contract).
No, it is just really difficult to go from digital yo analog.
In analoge, it doesn’t matter if something is misaligned by a milimeter. The tollerance is pretty big.
But digital is always exact. It doesn’t have the leeway to go off the exact path.
So if something is misaligned even slightly, the mismatch grows exponentially. And that is when the conversion from digital to analog breaks down.
Meaning, printers will always suffer until we can make analog as exact as digital, which is a very big ask we are currently unable to reach.
The middle mouse button pastes the selected text, “home” goes to the start of the line, “end” goes to the end. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
I taught my wife about clicking the first item and shift-clicking the last item you want selected. She knew about holding CTRL to select/deselect multiple items but not that shortcut. That’s when I realized I don’t even remember learning most things about operating a computer.
I only recently found out about the middle mouse button thing when accidentally clicking on the new tab button with a folder location on my clipboard.
Yeah I unbound the middle mouse thing when I switched, it was annoying
Until you have to switch between Mac and Windows.
I wish everything used vim motions tbh.
I once asked a co-worker to scroll to the bottom of a list so I could see the last entries.
I watched in abject horror as he clicked the little down arrow on the scroll bar repeatedly.
I honestly wanted to wrench the mouse from his grasp and feed it to him.
When they accidentally open a case file window you never wish you saw
“that’s right! The square hole!”
