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Whenever I talk to not terminally online people (europe.pub)
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[–] 56 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Yeah. A typical non-tech person is just as likely to say their PC is running on Microsoft or Google. Maybe they'll say Edge if they are really knowledgeable.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    In the case of the browser, they are still only describing use, not brand name.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    They don't know what a browser is. That's just "The Internet".

    Edit: I got whooshed.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    I once had a user all me to "install the latest version of the internet on her computer".

    My first thought was "that's gonna take a hot minute..."

    She was referring to wanting the latest version of internet explorer, of course, but it didn't stop my "take everything literally" brain from going on a humorous aside imagining downloading the entire internet to this users machine.

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