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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

The issue with my dad is that he does thing with computer seldom enough that he forgets. He packs away his laptop and prefer i do the regular things for him. (i refuse this) He could do it more often or write it down. But he is lazy. So he needs directions every time. When he intends to copy or move files, he still drags files, droping it randomly somewhere on the explorer window and making a mess. Then he loudly shouts in frustration, when his files are not where he expects. I keep telling him to not use drag and drop. I should disable that.

This is why modern media players try to find your media based on metadata, ignoring file structure.

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[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, install remote desktop. Now every time they are slightly confused, you have to drop everything and remote desktop into their machine to get rid of whatever inconvenience they have.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 9 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I feel like that's more to do with age, than tech proficiency.

Definitely felt the meme when assisting my mother with tasks.

Definitely been the meme when a new UI redesign happened that completely bamboozled whatever priors I had to the point that I seemingly could not notice large buttons on a sidebar that I wasn't expecting.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

How I hate switching between my phone/computer and my partner’s phone/computer. We don’t even have the same keyboard! Everything is in a different place! So frustrating

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

As someone who rebinds the Capslock key to be a special modifier (mostly for switching windows), it freaks people out sometimes when I'm typing on their machine and then suddenly stART WRITING LIKE THIS

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I wince with pain every time I want to exit a Windows terminal and only end up typing a ^D character.

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I have a shortcut to switch keyboard layouts, and I switch layouts to find “weird symbols” all the time… I am almost unable to type on any other computer

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

we're... we're teaching ourselves habits that place us firmly into a friendless corner 😢

[–] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Why not just keep a small keyboard with you that remembers your short cuts and macros?

It should be plug and play on mobile devices too if friends want you to type something there

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 11 hours ago

I actually would love a portable version of that, as long as it unpacked to a 70% keyboard. Anything smaller would drive me crazy

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