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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not everyone knows everything. Actually, nobody does.

Computers simply became an easily available necessity, thus you get a lot of computer-illiterate people using computers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Perhaps it would've been fairer to say that they're morons when it comes to computers

[–] [email protected] 67 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Kinda like you when it comes to social interaction?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Oh snap!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fairer to call at least 80% of people morons because they don't know one specific computer feature that is mainly used just by IT people?

Seems like the only moron here is you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Of course it's fairer. Before it meant that they're all around idiots. Now it just says they're idiots when it comes to computers. There might be aspects they're not idiots in, but if they're running random commands, computers isn't one of them.

Seems like the only moron here is you.

Not when it comes to computers but in some other things for sure

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not morons, just not educated enough about them to understand exactly what the implications of that action are.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've got to remember that these are just simple computer users. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Was that a Blazing Saddles quote?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you by chance running Arch btw?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Hah, I used to