“oh, you know so much! howd you do that?”

“grandma, i literally only typed dir.”

    • bombadil@feddit.org
      14·
      3 个月前

      Give someone bash, and they’ll shell for a day. Teach them fish and they’ll shell for the rest of their lives.

      • dosuser123456OP
        2·
        3 个月前

        teach them batch, theyll ask for an ibm pc and a floppy

        teach them basic, theyll ask for a c64 instead. and a cassette, apart from the floppy

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
    341·
    3 个月前

    As someone living in more rural demographic, replace grandma with every person with a cpu driven device. To quote my dad regarding his cellular trailcams “Wtf is updatefirmware? Stop making up words.”

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      34·
      3 个月前

      The whole “old people are bad at tech” thing is a bit long in the tooth now. Many people who grew up with computers are now old, and many young people are just as baffled by the command line as any grandmother.

      • CanadaPlus
        32·
        3 个月前

        There really was a magic learning window 1990-2010, I think. Some people who were there are still bad at technology, and a select few from before are good at it and maybe even helped build those systems, but the prevalence is night and day.

        • floofloof@lemmy.ca
          9·
          3 个月前

          Yes but I’d say it started 10 years before that, growing in numbers through the first few years of the 1980s.

          • CanadaPlus
            4·
            3 个月前

            That could be, it was a rough period. I wasn’t around for the beginning, and even the end is approximate as locked down mobile OSs and similarly user-opaque systems gradually came to dominate.

            Kids today can still learn computers, but they have to explicitly try. I think something analogous happened with early cars. The first guys had to be able to personally maintain and repair the whole thing, and then over time it gradually became an area for experts and the odd enthusiast only.

      • dosuser123456OP
        2·
        3 个月前

        i didnt say any grandma, i said specifically mine, who follows that trope. idk how yours is but mine is like that

    • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 个月前

      Reminds me of the Hollywood trope of a character saying “In English please” after any reference to something on a computer.

      I hate it so much when they do it. The writers should just say it the way an IT admin would and move on. Pretending that the character is speaking another language is just anti intellectual bullshit.

      • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        Have you ever seen A Touch Of Cloth? It’s a superb send-up of police procedurals. There’s a scene where the main character, Cloth, is explaining some not-very-complex idea like you said and one of his lackeys replies, “Can you explain it like I’m some kind of viewer, guv?”.

    • dosuser123456OP
      21·
      3 个月前

      in my case replacing my grandma with “everyone at my school” also works, i chose my grandma just to vary a bit

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 个月前

      Jokes on you, my Oma worked in Dos until her retirement.

      I bet one of her previous titles was literally “computer”

      • dosuser123456OP
        4·
        3 个月前

        thats one of the nicknames the school jocks came up with about me

        and i just accepted it bc i actually found it fitting so they had to think of another one lol

    • dosuser123456OP
      2·
      3 个月前

      mine doesnt even know how to add a custom ringtone to her phone

  • 𝔻𝔼𝕍𝕀𝕃𝕀𝕊ℍ@lemmy.world
    261·
    3 个月前

    It same when i was called by friend who worked at police HQ, updating linux with showing terminal at full screen because i want to know if udate successful or not while i reinstal windows at some computer in that room.
    all police that station almost killed me because they tough i hacked police database just because they saw terminal with some progress bar installing linux update.

  • alezyn@feddit.org
    221·
    3 个月前

    My wife calls it “the app with lots of text”. She’s very beautiful.

    • czardestructo@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 个月前

      At least she even comments. Mine just waves her hand in disgust. She knows it enables her whole technological life, but couldn’t give a shit.

  • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
    15·
    3 个月前

    That’s because the default color scheme is white on black. Just change it and Poof! Blue magic, red magic, yellow magic… so many possibilities!

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    3 个月前

    One of my favorite comparisons is computing to magic. They say that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    A lot of people have a hard time drawing that comparison, but if you tell them that there are very special, rare silica rocks that you can only find in specific places on earth, and that if you inscribe one of these rocks with billions of tiny transistors runes and then power infuse the rock with electricity lightning you can actually make trick the rock into a processor thinking, and that this now let’s you create software incantations which explain to the processor thinking rock how to execute a program do specific things for you, then they begin to see why.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    3 个月前

    “I’m gonna pop out and get some lunch because this is going to take a while and definitely isn’t just an SSH into an Ubuntu box running apt update/upgrade in a loop.”