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Can you buy a decent sweet and sour dipping sauce from the grocery store anymore? Before COVID they had a decent one but I'd long gone. I'm about to try making my own from a recipe online. It's just sugar and vinegar and msg and some generic spices.
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Cosmik Debris posted:I'm probably older or at least as old as all of you and none of my friends know jack poo poo about file systems and have had real jobs for decades. I’m a filthy youth with friends who know far too much about file systems AND have real jobs  Roughly 90% of my friends are nerds
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Jan 27, 2024 04:42
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I'm almost 40 and I don't know a single person who doesn't use PCs as a significant part of their job
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Jan 27, 2024 05:02
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Ask any of them what a file system is and watch as they stare blankly at you
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Jan 27, 2024 05:03
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People use Excel and Outlook and sometimes PowerPoint. That's it. That's work.
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Jan 27, 2024 05:03
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If you need better friends, just say so
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Cosmik Debris posted:Ask any of them what a file system is and watch as they stare blankly at you If you ask an average-ish Gen X / Millennial what a file system is, they'll stare blankly at you. However, if you give them a directory to browse to, ("Can you please navigate to C:\Program Files\THING"), they can generally do it. They don't know what the word is, but they do know how to interface with it. It's hard to know how many this applies to, but I'd guesstimate it's slightly short of a majority -- 35 - 40% or there abouts. Do the same experiment with Gen and I'd expect the number to be substantially less.
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Jan 27, 2024 05:08
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If you have a positive opinion of Linux you're a weirdo. If you still use Netflix and not a NAS you're an idiot. Be the right level of nerdy anything else is unacceptable.
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Jan 27, 2024 05:14
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Cosmik Debris posted:Ask any of them what a file system is and watch as they stare blankly at you They probably at least have a concept of what a file is, though. That's going away now that people never have to think about data existing outside of its associated app and way less stuff gets stored locally in the first place.
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Jan 27, 2024 05:15
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Opened up a file in C:/Scratch. Edited and hit save as. Why yes I want it in my OneDrive folder.
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Jan 27, 2024 06:03
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I'm smelling job security for another year or two and that might help me find something else.
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Jan 27, 2024 06:06
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Honestly the funniest part is Microsoft 11 whatever the hell were using is the new horrible folder view. You want to see the files organized by date or size? Nah go gently caress yourself. I'm sure theres a fix for this it is so bad. No I don't want you to stay my files into gross 4 staying with 0-9, then A-E or whatever it's doing now.
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Cosmik Debris posted:Idk about y'all but when I was growing up nobody knew how to type and computers were black magic and nothing has changed except kids can use touchscreens. Cosmik Debris posted:lol I'm a programmer and I can tell you right now that the vast, vast majority of people know next to nothing about computers. Hell even what I don't know could fill a small library. The point was that if you grew up "using computers" as a millennial or older then you ended up with a certain minimum level of computer literacy just from getting the drat things to work. If you didn't grow up "using computers" then yeah you didn't magically get gifted knowledge by being born around the right time you doof. The millennial/genx crossover group were the first group where there was a mass opportunity to grow up "using computers", and this combination of access and difficulty means there was an upswing in the middle ground of computer literacy referred to as being "good at computers". Prior to that you were probably either a highly knowledgeable enthusiast of a niche hobby/industry or you had no idea what a thinkybox was. Now everyone above a certain level of privilege is growing up "using computers" so there's still a general attitude that being "bad at computers" means you must be either dumb or over 50. We're talking about, just talking about not shaking our fists at, how and why that just isn't true. The technology has become so abstracted that a person can grow up "using computers" far more than the generation that was "good at computers" and still be "bad at computers". But that hasn't caught onto the social consciousness yet because how could that make sense? Must be that zoomers are dumb lol - some boomer who still prints out his emails and calls IT when he runs out of paper Splicer fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Jan 27, 2024 |
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Duck and Cover posted:If you have a positive opinion of Linux you're a weirdo. If you still use Netflix and not a NAS you're an idiot. Be the right level of nerdy anything else is unacceptable. 
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Jan 27, 2024 08:00
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Windows is better than linux However! Linux is better than windows This is because every operating system is a piece of poo poo. They are all the worst.
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I taught myself to type when I was like 6 years old and the way I type I use index fingers for like 90% of it and only occasionally use the middle/ring fingers on my left hand so everyone who sees me type thinks I'm doing the hunt&peck thing except I type at like 110+ WPM and confuse the poo poo out of everyone I don't trust homerow typers, they're slow and prone to errors, also they're conformists.
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Jan 27, 2024 09:11
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deep dish peat moss posted:I taught myself to type when I was like 6 years old and the way I type I use index fingers for like 90% of it and only occasionally use the middle/ring fingers on my left hand so everyone who sees me type thinks I'm doing the hunt&peck thing except I type at like 110+ WPM and confuse the poo poo out of everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtzIWPeun7c
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Jan 27, 2024 09:18
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Basically if you see someone homerow typing you know they're not a poweruser or computer wizard because they waited to be taught how to type. Come at me
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I agree with this theory, I type like an insane person using mostly my middle fingers, but I get 90 wpm
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Cosmik Debris posted:lol I'm a programmer and I can tell you right now that the vast, vast majority of people know next to nothing about computers. Hell even what I don't know could fill a small library. Then you gotta dig around where Telegram saved its stuff, where your webbrowser has etc etc. Same goes for making backups if you don't want to use the default 'put everything in onedrive!!!!1!' thing, forcing you to buy extra cloud hosting if you got more than a couple dozen GB of stuff. Knowing where your stuff is, is at least to me essential to being able to effectively use a computer. It's one of the reasons why Linux confused the hell out of me. Like, penguin dude, where are my files?! (i eventually found them, but it's not as easy as i am used to)
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deep dish peat moss posted:I taught myself to type when I was like 6 years old and the way I type I use index fingers for like 90% of it and only occasionally use the middle/ring fingers on my left hand so everyone who sees me type thinks I'm doing the hunt&peck thing except I type at like 110+ WPM and confuse the poo poo out of everyone StrangersInTheNight posted:I agree with this theory, I type like an insane person using mostly my middle fingers, but I get 90 wpm
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LimaBiker posted:It's all fun and games u ?
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Another big annoyance is accessing files made with 1 application, and then wanting to use them in another - if app 1's files are hidden away in app 1's special little folder on your device, nested 5 folders deep or something. How do you ever find those things, if they have some auto generated file name, and you have no clue how to browse folders? Windows Search sure as hell ain't gonna help you find it... I was fighting with Adobe Audition recently, it didn't wanna record. Some peculiarity that's caused by my ESI sound card. Sometimes it works absolutely perfect for months on end, sometimes i gotta gently caress around with it, changing devices in the device manager of audition etc. Different kind of problem and absolutely a 'me' problem. So instead i used the built in windows sound recorder, which always worked exactly the same as any other program until windows 10 arrived or whatever. I don't know, i haven't really used it since audacity and audition. Normally you'd hit Save (default), save as (prompt of where you want to save it). But no. Now it just dumps it ~somewhere~ and i had to actively look for where it dumped the files, for when i wanted to send a sound bite to someone via Telegram. Besides that, it also saves any recording you made that you don't even want to keep. Gotta manually delete all those false starts. I could've used Telegram's build in 'voice message' thing but i wanted something higher quality.
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Cosmik Debris posted:lol I'm a programmer and I can tell you right now that the vast, vast majority of people know next to nothing about computers. Hell even what I don't know could fill a small library. Mods please ban this sick filth
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I wasn't brave enough to say it first, but me too, pretty much. I was more like 10, but had moved around a lot and never had typing taught at school until after it was too late for me to unlearn my way. Now neurological bullshit has been lowering the accuracy of my technique. It's too late for me to learn the "right" way and it probably wouldn't help even if I could. I've thought about dictation but computers don't understand me and I can't not feel like a jackass talking to a machine. I typed this on Gboard on my phone, which used to work great and was one of those little things that made me feel like I was living in the future, but has gotten way less accurate and seems much more weighted toward things it expects a normal person to type. I suspect the decline is thanks to  AI.Anyway, text entry. Getting shittier.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:If you ask an average-ish Gen X / Millennial what a file system is, they'll stare blankly at you. However, if you give them a directory to browse to, ("Can you please navigate to C:\Program Files\THING"), ms is taking that ability away . It is generally hard to do now Everything is preferenced to the cloud You can’t set up word it automatically save locally anymore !!! My work laptops “desktop” space is actually a one drive space !!! It makes it very hard to work with no internet connection (you can’t )
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I'm really deeply unsure where I sit on the People Dumb - Tech is Worse spectrum rn, as a millennial. Cuz I finally got the new Windows update yesterday, which I realize was overdue, and I swear to god my wifi has just disappeared twice with a restart only solving it. Like you gotta go into that scary menu concerning hardware and find the network adapter or some poo poo and still....nothin' :0
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euphronius posted:ms is taking that ability away . It is generally hard to do now i hate this. and outlook used to prioritize and show your most recent local documents for email attachments but it doesn't anymore 
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deep dish peat moss posted:I taught myself to type when I was like 6 years old and the way I type I use index fingers for like 90% of it and only occasionally use the middle/ring fingers on my left hand so everyone who sees me type thinks I'm doing the hunt&peck thing except I type at like 110+ WPM and confuse the poo poo out of everyone i used to do this and stopped when i got a job as a programmer. i topped out at 90wpm hunt and pecking and now i'm around 105-110 on home row. i still use my crazy self-taught hunt and peck style if i'm like on a laptop in a recliner or something
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I type 3-finger Scruggs style
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Time_pants posted:It is, but mostly because it's an extremely common behavior of someone planning to kill themselves. I'm more concerned because people get a horde and then up their dose little by little and get horribly addicted and never realize it until they're down to the last script their doctor filled. I've seen people do it and the doctors look out for it. I'm probably not at a ton of risk that way but it was comforting to have an external gatekeeper to keep me honest with myself and it's not fun to have a junkie dungeon's treasure in your house either. I guess the extra profits from having a JIT drug manufacturing supply chain that takes 3 years to bounce back from COVID is pretty important too. You know those profits go into the 401ks of little old ladies everywhere.
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euphronius posted:ms is taking that ability away . It is generally hard to do now The US Navy, an organization whose entire purpose for existence is the operation of warships capable of independent operations in a communications-denied environment, is in process of shifting its licenses to Office 365, which requires an internet connection to function.
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I think Amazon search is actually getting worse. I know that's a crazy thought given how they were leaders in the "getting shittier for no good reason" field with making their search results come back with fewer and fewer relevant things while pushing up garbage to the top of the results, but this is getting absurd. Take a wild guess how many results I have to go through when I search for "[television show] blu ray" before I get to a blu ray disk of the television show I was looking for. Eight to the first result that was actually something relevant to my search. 46 to the second one that actually matched which was the most recent blu ray release for the show, which you'd think would be the result you'd want at the top of the list.
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They have a perverse incentive as they want you to scroll through more when you do a well targeted search.
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deep dish peat moss posted:I'm almost 40 and I don't know a single person who doesn't use PCs as a significant part of their job One my hires flat out told me he was a field tech and didn't want to sit in front of a computer and for me to find someone else for that poo poo. Respect.
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Microsoft cloud services had an issue yesterday which means that my office's teams and outlook were having intermittent issues. I hate this.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Basically if you see someone homerow typing you know they're not a poweruser or computer wizard because they waited to be taught how to type. Come at me i think thats true. i tried home row after teaching myself (by the time i got to a typing class in high school) and found it incredibly weird and inefficient. anyway i used to be able to type 120wpm no problem 
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Office365 and OneDrive run off locally cached files. If you go online offline online it doesn't care. It'll sync it all back up whenever it can.
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For want of a PowerPoint, the ship was lost
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SettingSun posted:Microsoft cloud services had an issue yesterday which means that my office's teams and outlook were having intermittent issues. I hate this. Counterpoint, it was the most peaceful Friday I've ever seen
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