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Assisting users be like (europe.pub)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 9 points 6 days ago (12 children)

I feel like that's more to do with age, than tech proficiency.

Definitely felt the meme when assisting my mother with tasks.

Definitely been the meme when a new UI redesign happened that completely bamboozled whatever priors I had to the point that I seemingly could not notice large buttons on a sidebar that I wasn't expecting.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I think it's neither age nor tech, it's how the human brain works. Same thing happens on a sailboat: "Pull on that red line. The one by your right hand. No, not the blue one, the red one that's directly in front of you, inches from your hand..."

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (9 children)

    How I hate switching between my phone/computer and my partner’s phone/computer. We don’t even have the same keyboard! Everything is in a different place! So frustrating

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago* (8 children)

    As someone who rebinds the Capslock key to be a special modifier (mostly for switching windows), it freaks people out sometimes when I'm typing on their machine and then suddenly stART WRITING LIKE THIS

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

    I have a shortcut to switch keyboard layouts, and I switch layouts to find “weird symbols” all the time… I am almost unable to type on any other computer

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

    we're... we're teaching ourselves habits that place us firmly into a friendless corner 😢

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Why not just keep a small keyboard with you that remembers your short cuts and macros?

    It should be plug and play on mobile devices too if friends want you to type something there

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago

    I learned Autocad 14 on my own machine across a couple of months. Customized my input tablet and keyboard shortcuts to make my common tasks easier.

    Then I went to a machine shop to have my widgets built, and tried to use their Autocad - and I was completely helpless, asking "how do you ... ?" for the most common tasks. I never bothered to customize key-shortcuts again, I don't work alone on a single machine enough to make it worthwhile.

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