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@jtrek@startrek.website

2026-05-03 13:48 UTC

I hope I never become so befuddled that pushing one chat bubble icon instead of the other is confounding. I don’t understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing. My dad is quite elderly and he manages to run ubuntu fine. My mother, on the other hand, gets confused and angry if anything changes at all on her phone or laptop.

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  • I run Arch Linux and I also get angry if My UI changes. I switched to an operating system I control so that corporations couldn’t ruin My day with redesigns.

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  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 14:40

    I don’t understand how some people who are ordinarily reasonably smart just turn into subhuman intelligence when faced with a new computer thing. It’s very easy to learn shit when young, has to do with brain plasticity. You can still teach an old dog new tricks, but they just can’t form new neural connections as fast. Someone that never used any cellphone till 40, and got their first touchscreen at 60… Well, they’d still be better off than the hypothetical Gam Gam, at 92 she likely didn’t get a cell phone till she was 70. But her age was just one of many over-exageration in a sarcastic post. Very few 92 year olds are keeping up with group texts and feel.likenthosenare important

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