TBF, I personally learned helplessness with house repairs. There’s no MS and Apple there. My colleagues are not like that, for example.
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DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 11 months agoMicrosoft is the reason boomers have learned helplessness with tech. It helped them sell computers in the 90’s to imply you didn’t have to ever consider anything under the hood because it all just is supposed to work like magic.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
That’s not an inherently bad thing though, same as it’s not inherently bad that not everyone can repair their car, or sew up tears in their trousers.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
The relevant aphorism is “make it as simple as possible, but not simpler”. You can add functionality to make things easier, same as syntactic sugar in programming languages. You shouldn’t turn the person using your system into an object, just accepting what it gives them in response to their magic movements or clicking pictures.
scottywh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re not from New Jersey I see
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Sorry, didn’t get the reference?..
DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it is bad if they don’t realize how simple it is to pump their own gas. That’s about the equivalent of being able to unencrypt your own files. I’d say it’s important enough that you should not be relying on anyone with the potential security of your own personal data.