I worked at “Big Box Orange Counter Retail” for many years. Us nerds, us who actively choose linux, know how to build computers, hell even know what a terminal is, are the vast minority. I installed drivers for people. I uninstalled malware. I upgraded ram. All normal. What’s also normal? Showing them how to log into their email. Showing them how to open an application. Showing them how to use a file browser. This is all mystical shit to them. Us at black tie computer repair in big box were made fun of by computer nerds because “har har just install linux”, “har har why pay them 130 dollars just do it yourself”. Bruh, the vast majority of people don’t know what a browser is.
It can feel like the opposite. Lemmy and Mastodon are heavily tech related, Reddit was too, and we build ourselves into echo chambers where we assume everyone has a specific level, but we are a teeny tiny fraction.
Linux was ~1% of the Steam survey for decades. That’s 1% of PC gamers, PC users who have Steam installed. It was a tiny fraction of a fraction. We’re now at 5%, which is great, but that’s still a tiny fraction of total users across all desktops. On top of that, a huge chunk is thanks to Valve for pre-installing a linux distro and going with that as the default. Us who installed Linux as a primary PC and game on it are a very tiny percentage.
Then, to add mobile operating systems into the mix, the percentage is even smaller. We are a part of a part of a percent on mobile. It’s why things like locking down Android doesn’t concern them. They know we’ll switch, they don’t care. We’re an edge case to them, a rounding error. What they can say is that 99.999% of people are now locked in.
Computers are second nature to us Lemmy nerds, so it’s easy to forget the average person probably only knows Python for simple programmes and one or two scripting languages.
Normies don’t even know what clipboard is. I was gobsmacked I don’t even know how to explain it as plainly as possible.
But also found out apparently MacOS doesn’t have a clipboard? At least when I was frantically searching online when someone said they copies something earlier and want to paste and give me to it
The fuck are you talking about? The FIRST thing that comes up when I search “Macos clipboard” or “Mac clipboard” or even “Mac clipboard” is Apple’s official page on THE CLIPBOARD
“where does text go when I copy on Mac” makes me go all the way to the SECOND result before clipboard is mentioned.
You’re shitting on “normies” and you don’t even know how to search the internet?
I worked at “Big Box Orange Counter Retail” for many years. Us nerds, us who actively choose linux, know how to build computers, hell even know what a terminal is, are the vast minority. I installed drivers for people. I uninstalled malware. I upgraded ram. All normal. What’s also normal? Showing them how to log into their email. Showing them how to open an application. Showing them how to use a file browser. This is all mystical shit to them. Us at black tie computer repair in big box were made fun of by computer nerds because “har har just install linux”, “har har why pay them 130 dollars just do it yourself”. Bruh, the vast majority of people don’t know what a browser is.
It can feel like the opposite. Lemmy and Mastodon are heavily tech related, Reddit was too, and we build ourselves into echo chambers where we assume everyone has a specific level, but we are a teeny tiny fraction.
Linux was ~1% of the Steam survey for decades. That’s 1% of PC gamers, PC users who have Steam installed. It was a tiny fraction of a fraction. We’re now at 5%, which is great, but that’s still a tiny fraction of total users across all desktops. On top of that, a huge chunk is thanks to Valve for pre-installing a linux distro and going with that as the default. Us who installed Linux as a primary PC and game on it are a very tiny percentage.
Then, to add mobile operating systems into the mix, the percentage is even smaller. We are a part of a part of a percent on mobile. It’s why things like locking down Android doesn’t concern them. They know we’ll switch, they don’t care. We’re an edge case to them, a rounding error. What they can say is that 99.999% of people are now locked in.
Computers are second nature to us Lemmy nerds, so it’s easy to forget the average person probably only knows Python for simple programmes and one or two scripting languages.
Normies don’t even know what clipboard is. I was gobsmacked I don’t even know how to explain it as plainly as possible.
But also found out apparently MacOS doesn’t have a clipboard? At least when I was frantically searching online when someone said they copies something earlier and want to paste and give me to it
Mac OS has a clipboard.
The fuck are you talking about? The FIRST thing that comes up when I search “Macos clipboard” or “Mac clipboard” or even “Mac clipboard” is Apple’s official page on THE CLIPBOARD
“where does text go when I copy on Mac” makes me go all the way to the SECOND result before clipboard is mentioned.
You’re shitting on “normies” and you don’t even know how to search the internet?