Subj : Re: 33 Years!
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Dec 02 2022 23:44:13

 Ni>  bo> I'm amazed how silly many peoples workflows are, such as taking a pho
 Ni>  bo> a web page on a screen, then sending that photo in order to transmit 
 Ni> 
 Ni> That's one thing that surprises me a little - It seems many people don't
 Ni> know how to propertly take a screenshot.  I've also seen people posting
 Ni> photos from their smartphone where it's just a screenshot of their
 Ni> smartphone to show a photo they were looking at in their web browser -
 Ni> Complete with their phone's top statusbar and black bars in the web
 Ni> browser, etc..  It seems many people also don't know that you can save
 Ni> the actual photo to your device and you can post that rather than taking
 Ni> a screenshot.  And if you're taking a screenshot, at least edit it to
 Ni> crop out only the thing you want to share.
 Ni> 

My favourite, and my wife has done this, is taking a screenshot of a note, then sending that note over the phone.  Instead of just typing the note.

Part of this is the way the system is designed, it becomes easier to do things the very inefficient way, than the efficient way.  People don't learn how to take screenshots on their computer, or how to copy and paste.

 Ni>  bo> The push to make computers a mass commodity has crippled us.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'm not sure I'd say it has crippled us, but there are certainly a lot of
 Ni> people who still don't seem to be very computer savvy.  That's something
 Ni> I find surprising, as computers have been around for quite a while now.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

I do mean what I said.  The way which data is used at my workplace, and any workplace I've been at, is horrifically inefficient.  The reason for this is because everyone is now a "computer user", but they don't know about Information Technology or computing, or basics such as how to store data in a way which can be queried from other programs.

Once people learned their way to fumble around a GUI, or paw at a screen with their phone, we've considered them to be fully learned on computing, and therefore competent to work with them.

Back in the 80s, early 90s, people who used computers learned how to use them. We had manuals. We learned basics such as text being stored as a sequence of bytes, which is different to an image.  We learned some basic CLI concepts.

All that is gone.  Now watching someone use a computer is like watching someone drive who puts one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake SIMULTANEOUSLY to maintain a desired speed.  (yes I've seen that too!)

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