I feel like other people feel the same way when the see me using vim. I know how to switch between view and edit mode and I know how to quit, but for everything else I need to use help.

And this is why Copilot failed. It’s bad enough watching a human do dumb shit on a computer, but having to watch a dipshit AI fumble around on your machine just takes it to a whole new level.

Watching someone use a laptop with a trackpad only when there's a mouse right there is my hell.

It's not just doing it differently, it's doing it wrongly!!!!!!!

If I'm watching someone do something differently than I do, it's often fun to ask them why. You might pick up a new technique, or see how you've been doing something that's holding you back.

...but when I'm watching someone else use a computer, it just drives home how they don't know what they're doing, but just following basic steps that they (probably) learned one time from some other fool that probably learned from some community computer class where typing was considered an advanced topic. It's not seeing someone cut against the grain of the wood rather than with it, but rather watching them use a router to cut a 2x4 in half.

I can forgive someone for not knowing that control+c/v doesn't work in a terminal (the first few times) (or doesn't work like they expected, more accurately) or why, but I can't grasp how we can be 20 years past common commands like alt+tab, clipboards and their uses, or basic understanding of the difference between an operating system, a system program, and a hierarchical file system... and people still struggle to use the mouse.

Double clicking links

My little sister used to sometimes stand over me while I played computer games. She'd suggest moves and I'd be thankful at first, but at a certain point she was direction all my moves and I'd be like "just play the game on your own device if you want to play it". She seemed to prefer telling someone else how to play than play her own game

Im the elder millennial who helps explain shit to both my older and younger coworkers about our computers (as well as printers and copiers and shredser). Its maddening how some of them use the computer.

I remember vividly watching someone type in the address bar of their browser "google", and hit enter. It took them to the google results page from which they pressed on the first result, google.com, and only then did they proceed to type in their search term.

that's why you install some niche Linux distro with you own I3WM rice. no one will be able to touch your computer

As part of my career in software design, I used to run A/B testing and usability tests. This meant sitting with users and watching them use the software. Since IUE (initial user experience) was very important, this often included inexperienced users.

The data was absolutely worth it, and definitely improved my designs, but it took a lot of patience to watch people struggle and fail without intervening or saying anything that would affect the results. It was rewarding, but sometimes excruciating.

Opens word, goes to file, then open... Can't remember where the file is located.

Opens file manager, SUCCESS! Uses search instead of spending 1 week looking for the file down 100 subfolders. Right-clicks file, open location 🤔 (yeah, not just open).

Goes back to word by hovering the pointer all the way to the Word icon on the taskbar (because fuck ALT-Tab), navigate to the folder containing the file as found in the file manager. Scroll 11 pages because the files are organized by type. Clicks file, ONCE, clocks open.

Finally, aaaaand...

BSOD 😭

It works in reverse too. Someone telling you to do something and then you do that and then they start interrupting because they have no idea of how you do it.

I enjoy watching some people play games. I cannot watch them play RPGs or similar with choices nor puzzles. Even if their puzzle solution is right in the end and mine is not, I still just get frustrated by the experience.

uses windows and edge. 3 different antivirus softwares running. 99 tabs open. pressing keys with a single finger and 3 second search time for every letter. copy with right mouse click. every adress in the mail is added with cc instead of bcc.

uses only microsoft word on the most overpowered modern pc the world has ever seen. somehow still manages to exhaust its power.

"Now where is copy?... Copy copy copyyyaah here! "


"Aaaand... Paste"
"There you go... "

as my family's tech support, i fully concur

That's what purgatory is, just watching middle management navigating whatever systems you know best.

Sooo slooow...