@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz
2025-11-22 12:04 UTC
Replies (7)
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@cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop 2025-11-22 12:06
@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social By over-focussing on making computers easy enough for 50-90% of the population to use, big tech has consequently disincentivized understanding. (This doesn't hurt their viability as advertising channels, of course.)
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@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz 2025-11-22 12:05
@cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social also yeah I can admit that don't really bother creating neat organised from the hierarchy is beyond what is absolutely necessary for some other program to work but at least I know that files and folders are there even if I keep about half of my files just disorganized in my downloads or documents folder
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@mavnn@bonfire.mavnn.eu 2025-11-22 12:09
@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social this stuff really isn't obvious any more! My son is dysgraphic and uses a keyboard at school, and had to have a long discussion with a teacher explaining why he couldn't turn off his Internet connection while completing an assessment in Google Classroom. The teacher hadn't realised that he wasn't writing on his own device, and you know what? I don't blame them! How are you supposed to tell where things are anymore from within the 'user experience'?
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social 2025-11-22 13:32
@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social it’s a sentiment echoed by our CompSci lecturers at work in recent years. Computer operation isn’t a common skill now most people use phones, tablets and games consoles. And the secondary school IT curriculum hasn’t helped, either.
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@Perrin42@mastodon.social 2025-11-22 13:52
@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social I started with computers when I was 4 or 5, on a Commodore 64. I had to learn how computers worked to make them work, from load ,8,1 to custom autoexec.bat and config.sys files, upgrading modems and RAM. Now everything just works (to an extent) and all of that detail is hidden, so even people that have been using computers their whole lives don't have to learn these things. Computers have become like cars, used by many but understood by few.
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@JHB17@mastodon.online 2025-11-22 15:02
@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social It would be nice if the operating system would disclose folders, as in, "Where did you just stash my file?" Finding a file on Android ... not trivial.
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@StompyRobot@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-11-22 16:49
@addressforbots@social.apcn.nz @cstross@wandering.shop @dryak@mstdn.science @whybird@aus.social Interesting comparisons: How many people know how a car works? How about how paper is made?