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[-] neocamel@vlemmy.net 98 points 1 year ago

Watching my dad right-click, and select "Copy" from the popup menu...

[-] knr1651727105@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

I don't watch my dad use the computer anymore as I feel the same as the one in the comic.

That time I saw him log in to his yahoo email (tldr; my dad uses google to go to yahoo)

  1. Open Chrome (which I set google.com as the homepage)
  2. Type in yahoo.com to the search bar
  3. Click yahoo.com from the results
  4. Click on the Mail button thing somewhere in that page

Or that one time I asked him to login to to gmail account while he was browsing his yahoo email. (tldr; my dad does not believe in tabs)

  1. Close his Chrome browser with the yahoo email.
  2. Open Chrome again
  3. Type in gmail in the google search bar
  4. Click mail.google.com from the results.
[-] z3k3lon@lemmy.pt 25 points 1 year ago

This was painful to read. :|

[-] lem_dart@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

Oh... Oh No. Closing the entire browser to open a new tab. I don't blame you at all for not being able to watch.

[-] saltyboomer@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

This just made me miss my dad so much. Pain.

[-] einsteinx2@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

I read the TL;DRs knowing what was going to happen only to continue reading and feel physical pain. What’s wrong with me…

[-] snakesnakewhale@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

There was a recurring gag on Parks And Rec about Pawnee internet users needing Altavista so they could use it to navigate to Google. That joke felt very real.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

At least he right-clicked instead of going for the menu at the top!

[-] s_s@lemmy.one 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My Dad has had a post-it note above his computer for years, "Crl-C Copy, Crl-V Paste"

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[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 77 points 1 year ago

Its so rough watching non vimmers use vim

[-] dilawar@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 56 points 1 year ago
  • Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of /
  • Using :wqa! and then reopening the editor instead of just using :w
  • Deleting an entire line by hitting x repeatedly
  • Adding to the end of a like by pressing i and then the right arrow key until they're at the end of a line
[-] LedgeDrop@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

STOP! You're scaring the children!

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 14 points 1 year ago

Deleting an entire line by hitting x repeatedly

The first time I ever touched Double Ds was in vim.

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[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

I've heard some people even use :wq over :x

[-] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

….I’ve been using :wq for years…

[-] naught@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Repent! Imagine all of the wasted productivity! Ahhhhhhhhh

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[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 17 points 1 year ago

At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It's painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.

[-] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 year ago

You can share it at !vim@sopuli.xyz I'm sure people (me included) would love to use it

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[-] PseudoSpock@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

Are you kidding? I remove nano on purpose so I can sit there and watch them struggle!

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[-] xoggy@programming.dev 48 points 1 year ago

Him being naked is completely unnecessary but enhances everything.

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[-] vtomyvsya@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 year ago

I have a coworker whose default mode of thinking is to manually type everything. He knows about things like tab completion and copy-paste, but for some reason those two things just aren't baked into his brain as a natural reflex like it is for most people. Like if he has to put a URL or database connection string in a config file somewhere, he'll start manually typing the string one character at a time, and will keep alt-tabbing between the config file he's editing and the email or whatever that has the reference string.

It drives me up a wall.

[-] WereCat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I bet he is paid per hour

[-] pohui@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

I did a short stint as a video editor at a local news channel. Had one colleague who made it a point to lean back and touch the keyboard as little as humanly possible, and use the mouse for everything. It was excruciating to watch him work. He was fairly experienced btw, so I'm sure he could have done the work much quicker, he just chose not to.

[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 7 points 1 year ago

This comment made me physically recoil in disgust. Great job.

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[-] jose@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Comic good. Post title bad.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Come on. Dude. Give credit where credit is due. SMH...

Source.

[-] HappyHam@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
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[-] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 17 points 1 year ago

Makes me glad I'm a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn't so "nice" to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.

Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn't want to get a virus.

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school -- her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.

The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon

I'll add "it's not their fault". In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we've removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.

[-] max@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

Very interesting! It’s something I just cannot fathom as a 20-something year old. Granted, I’m a software engineer, but I’m very much like the professors in the article. It’s just so intuitive to me.

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[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago
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[-] S3verin@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 year ago

thats literally my job (web development teacher)

[-] coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago

You poor soul.

clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel

[-] S3verin@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 year ago

right click -> copy; right click -> paste

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Mouse? OG experts fumble with the touchpad and touchpad buttons to drag the scrollbar down inch by inch.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago

Wanna make it worse? Have the dummy user mumble-read EVERY. FRIGGING. WORD.

[-] ellaella_ayayay@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

We found out that one of our co workers created tables of formulas in excel, then input a table in Word to manually type in and transfer over the table data. And of course the same formulas needed to be run through a desk calculator once more in case excel got that wrong the first time. Jaw dropping (when that person was shown about this magical copy/ paste feature, it was their jaw that dropped lol)

[-] oozeling@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

eye twitches

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[-] YonatanAvhar@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

He's copy and pasting uaing the right click menu

[-] malloc@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago

Older scrum masters during the daily standup and trying to do live updates to the JIRA board

Turned 15 minute meeting into 30 minutes at times lol.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago

I've been watching game grumps playing TOTK and every time Arin opens the full inventory to change weapons, I die a little on the inside.

[-] two_wheel2@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Uses vim with arrow keys

[-] entropicshart@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

This is what training new folks looks like. Even something as simple as a browser; watching someone click into the address bar and hit enter just to refresh the page, hurts my soul.

[-] Xia@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

La* torture

it's «la torture» tho …

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[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Hey, maybe I just don’t wanna use both hands

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[-] BabaYaga@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

This is nightmare fuel

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