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Reminds me of one of my favourite Xkcd.
Although I guess we are more in this one, really.
I'm really impressed by people who can write stuff that makes kinda sense, while being complete gibberish. Very funny and y'all need to remember where you are.
as of right now the second xkcd you linked is in an identical format to the newest xkcd. Not relevant to the post, just think it's cool
As a developer, that is also how I read tutorials written by other developers.
You sure that's a tutorial and not the "about" page of half of github, where you have no fucking clue what the project is about?
Boop!
I feel that way about pretty much anything these days. The sheer volume of options and the complexity of everything is simply exhausting. Even finding food for my cat is overwhelming.
How about that worst of both worlds, the tutorial where the author starts out writing as if their audience only barely knows what a computer is, gets fed up partway through, and vomits out the rest in a more obtuse and less complete form than they would've otherwise?
Turn on your computer. Make sure you turn on the "PC" (the big box part) as well as the "monitor" (TV-like part).
Once your computer is ready and you can see the desktop, open your web browser. This might be called "Chrome", "Safari", "Edge", or something else. It's the same program you open to use "the Google".
In the little bar near the top of the window where you can write things, type "https://www.someboguswebsite.corn/download/getbogus.html" and press the Enter key.
Download the software and unarchive it to a new directory in your borklaving software with the appropriate naming convention.
Edit the init file to match your frooping setup.
If you're using Fnerp then you might need to switch off autoglomping. Other suites need other settings.
Use the thing. You know, the thing that makes the stuff work right. Whatever.
Congratulations! You're ready to go!
Sounds like typical Microsoft documentation to me. Explains in great detail what .NET is, where you can download it from, then jumps straight to the advanced topic they're covering without any of the intermediate knowledge covered or even linked to (but perhaps referred to only vaguely in passing as an acronym, again with no link, this time no link to what "TLA" is actually short for, so you're searching for it is fruitless as well).
At least once in their life, every tech person should be forced to teach someone like my mum how to use a piece of technology.
That will very quickly change your perspective on what counts as user friendly.
Pretty sure every tech person at some point or another has had to do exactly that. And not just their mom, but their dad, and their extended family, and their parent’s friends who have a random problem, etc
I love the shit out of this. I can relate SO HARD to everything she wrote. It's like most people don't understand how to communicate with regular normal human beings
