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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 75 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel this so much it hurts.

Some people are TERRIFIED of devices.

They look at the UI like it's the cockpit of a fighter plane, with a thousand buttons, some of which make things explode.

Unless they know exactly what to do, they won't even try anything.

Nevermind that UIs are usually designed to allow a user to figure them out by just prodding at everything and seeing what it does.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 58 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember once seeing an explanation of how us tech people magically know what to do with any program that was like "We don't. We just look for something that seems vaguely familiar and try clicking it." Three bars in a hamburger shape? That's a menu. Oh, look, a cog, that always means settings, what we want is probably a setting. Etc.

[–] super_geek_tuber@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

Y'know, it probably was that, now that I think about it.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Meanwhile give root access to a CEO because he demands it, and he'll happily copy and paste "sudo wget piped to bash" commands copied from some forum into your production server

idk, I'd rather have users fear a bomb is about to go off than people exploding a bomb without even hesitating to think if they should proceed