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Whenever I talk to not terminally online people (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by VegOwOtenks@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah. A typical non-tech person is just as likely to say their PC is running on Microsoft or Google. Maybe they'll say Edge if they are really knowledgeable.

[–] jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

I worked tech support in a call center, a thousand years ago.

Telling people to click on the "big blue E" was used nearly every call. Not much has changed.

[–] Monument@piefed.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In the case of the browser, they are still only describing use, not brand name.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

They don't know what a browser is. That's just "The Internet".

Edit: I got whooshed.

[–] Monument@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was making a joke about edging.

Edit: It was pretty subtle, to be honest. Not my finest masturbation-related humor.

[–] Aerosol3215@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I once had a user all me to "install the latest version of the internet on her computer".

My first thought was "that's gonna take a hot minute..."

She was referring to wanting the latest version of internet explorer, of course, but it didn't stop my "take everything literally" brain from going on a humorous aside imagining downloading the entire internet to this users machine.