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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:31:36 JST SuperDicq

   • wetdrymemes 🚿

   @memes@wetdry.world I'm actually not surprised because in the 70s and 80s it was very common for office women to work in IT, administration, data entry and such. Lots of women from this time period who are very familiar with UNIX-like operating systems and are not afraid of using the command line.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:36:45 JST SuperDicq

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     @memes@wetdry.world Back then the shell was the only way to interact with a computer in the first place, so every regular computer user knew how to use it.
     
     Nowadays it's all obscured by fancy interfaces and touch screens and whatnot, and the shell is only supposed to be used by powerusers making the average computer user dumber in general.
     
     I have heard stories of gen alpha having trouble even understanding the basic concept of directories and files...

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:47:51 JST SuperDicq

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     @mario@don.tbully.me @memes@wetdry.world Yeah and they are honestly also not even interested in keeping something, be it a video, photo or file for later.
     
     They really live in the "now" and whenever they need something from a while ago they just hope that it is still up on the internet somewhere.
     
     They don't even look back at old stuff unless their precious apps decide to throw it into their face like Facebook saying "5 years ago you posted this photo", or Spotify making those cringy "Wrapped" montages.

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     Mario 🔒 (mario@don.tbully.me)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:47:53 JST Mario 🔒

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     @SuperDicq @memes >I have heard stories of gen alpha having trouble even understanding the basic concept of directories and files…
     
     I can confirm this. Growing up with iOS/Android and other mobile devices which locks out basic Operating System design patterns in favor of comfy UX resulted in (youngish) people never being exposed to anything that's not an app.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 22-Mar-2024 18:54:05 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @m@memes@wetdry.world >Back then the shell was the only way to interact with a computer in the first place
     You could communicate with the computer via one of the ports without even using a shell I reckon - too bad doing so has become extremely difficult, due to the replacement of serial and parallel ports with usb (which is meant to be serial, but you can't even do serial on it without a convertor card).
     
     >the shell is only supposed to be used by powerusers making the average computer user dumber in general.
     On windows, the available shells are terrible and also have intentionally braindead/crippled functionality, so I really wouldn't blame anyone who only ever used the original useless DOS shell or "cmd" or "PowerShell" to despise shells in general.
     
     Meanwhile GNU bash is very nice to use and even normies realize how easy it is to use when you show them how to use it.
     
     
     Most young people have issues understanding basic concepts such as directories, as they've only ever used "computers" from proprietary companies like google or apple, which hide the concept of a filesystem and only ever present a list of files to select and maybe offer limited filtering functionality, while also listing the files as stored on the mythical "cloud".