Comment on Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine

• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I always cringe in horror as both my parents still double click links on the internet.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mine are not that old but they absolutely need access to assistance every day. Mom cannot turn the computer off if anything other than “Shutdown” was previously chosen in that awful Windows dialog. Dad fell for a basic “unclaimed delivery” phishing email even though he found it in the Spam folder that has an explicit warning. Fortunately, his gut told him something was fishy and he told me right away, and we suspended his card before it was abused.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with double click?

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      On a link? Everything.

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I still don’t understand. IIRC, it’s click once to select, click twice to open. Why should hyperlinks be different?

        Or maybe you mean machine gun clicking until the page loads, that’s, eh, wrong, yes.

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    • Bread@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think it is the idea of clicking some random link on the internet and not the act of double clicking itself. It caught me for a second too.

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  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Boy, do I understand the cringe.

    I always described these users as “unable to distinguish between an icon an a button”. Modern Windows UIs don’t make it easier, though.

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• uis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I could install Linux and she wouldn’t tell.

  Works with grandparents. They don’t even suspect they have Gentoo on their computer.

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