Subj : Re: 33 Years!
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Dec 02 2022 09:31:17

  Re: Re: 33 Years!
  By: boraxman to Nightfox on Fri Dec 02 2022 11:44 pm

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

I haven't seen people do that before, but that's not really surprising.

One thing that bugs me (I guess a bit of a pet peeve) is a lot of front-facing smartphone cameras have a "selfie mode" where it mirrors the image, even when the photo is saved, and people are posting selfie photos online that way.  I'm a little surprised the software developers would make the camera app save photos mirrored like that, but at least there's usually an option to toggle that.  It seems people aren't changing that option though, and are totally fine with their selfie photos being saved mirrored.  A mirrored photo doesn't represent the scene as it is, and if I'm going to be sharing a photo with people, I wouldn't want it mirrored..  It becomes obvious when there are things like a shirt or a sign in the photo that have text where you can see it's backwards/mirrored.  And if someone comments on the fact that it's mirrored, usually people respond and say "That's because it's a selfie" - as if selfies are supposed to be mirrored?  Most people don't seem to care..

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

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

Even if someone isn't totally computer savvy, I suppose a computer program could still make a process mor eefficient than doing it manually or some other way.

I feel like there are a surprising number of people who still just don't "get" computers and similar technology, even though they've been in popular use for many years now.

Nightfox
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