• knr1651727106@lemmy.world
      53·
      1 year ago

      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.
      • lem_dart@lemm.ee
        20·
        1 year ago

        Oh… Oh No. Closing the entire browser to open a new tab. I don’t blame you at all for not being able to watch.

      • einsteinx2@programming.devEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I read the TL;DRs knowing what was going to happen only to continue reading and feel physical pain. What’s wrong with me…

      • baker@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        1 year ago

        There was a recurring gag on Parks And Rec about Pawnee internet users needing Altavista so they could use it to navigate to Google. That joke felt very real.

      • thisisnotgoingwell@programming.dev
        2·
        1 year ago

        I can understand parents. My mom was an office admin before computers and she could type 130+ wpm on a typewriter, but she struggles with things like this. Bless her, I’m happy to help her whenever she needs. My dad was a DOS beast in his day but he can’t help himself from adding sketchy browser extensions.

        Now, when I run into peer “engineers” that use computers like this… That I cannot forgive

    • s_s@lemmy.one
      10·
      1 year ago

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

  • vtomyvsya@sopuli.xyz
    33·
    1 year ago

    I have a coworker whose default mode of thinking is to manually type everything. He knows about things like tab completion and copy-paste, but for some reason those two things just aren’t baked into his brain as a natural reflex like it is for most people. Like if he has to put a URL or database connection string in a config file somewhere, he’ll start manually typing the string one character at a time, and will keep alt-tabbing between the config file he’s editing and the email or whatever that has the reference string.

    It drives me up a wall.

    • pohui@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world
    18·
    1 year ago

    The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.

  • cookie@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    We found out that one of our co workers created tables of formulas in excel, then input a table in Word to manually type in and transfer over the table data. And of course the same formulas needed to be run through a desk calculator once more in case excel got that wrong the first time. Jaw dropping (when that person was shown about this magical copy/ paste feature, it was their jaw that dropped lol)

      • cookie@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        One of the few moments I remember so clearly where it truly felt like time had stopped. Rest of the dept just froze, as I’m sure they were running through all of this person’s work and designated accounts in their heads just as I was. They ended up leaving shortly after, and guess who had to clean up all that fun stuff. The manually-input nightmare 😭

  • malloc@programming.dev
    11·
    1 year ago

    Older scrum masters during the daily standup and trying to do live updates to the JIRA board

    Turned 15 minute meeting into 30 minutes at times lol.

  • entropicshart@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 year ago

    This is what training new folks looks like. Even something as simple as a browser; watching someone click into the address bar and hit enter just to refresh the page, hurts my soul.