Programmer Humor

I don't watch my dad use the computer anymore as I feel the same as the one in the comic.

That time I saw him log in to his yahoo email (tldr; my dad uses google to go to yahoo)

1. Open Chrome (which I set google.com as the homepage)
2. Type in yahoo.com to the search bar
3. Click yahoo.com from the results
4. Click on the Mail button thing somewhere in that page

Or that one time I asked him to login to to gmail account while he was browsing his yahoo email. (tldr; my dad does not believe in tabs)

1. Close his Chrome browser with the yahoo email.
2. Open Chrome again
3. Type in gmail in the google search bar
4. Click mail.google.com from the results.

At least he right-clicked instead of going for the menu at the top!

My Dad has had a post-it note above his computer for years, "Crl-C Copy, Crl-V Paste"

a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.

At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It's painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.

Are you kidding? I remove nano on purpose so I can sit there and watch them struggle!

I bet he is paid per hour

I did a short stint as a video editor at a local news channel. Had one colleague who made it a point to lean back and touch the keyboard as little as humanly possible, and use the mouse for everything. It was excruciating to watch him work. He was fairly experienced btw, so I'm sure he could have done the work much quicker, he just chose not to.

This comment made me physically recoil in disgust. Great job.

It's not SMH, it's SMBC

You poor soul.

clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel

Makes me glad I'm a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn't so "nice" to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.

Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn't want to get a virus.

My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school -- her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.

The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon

I'll add "it's not their fault". In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we've removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.

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