It's not that it's unaccessible, it's that companies like Google and Microsoft push you towards using shittier, less usable options because it allows them to control your experience, sell more data and ads, and discourage you from poking around in general. Older people don't have the time to poke around and figure out all this often times, so ironically free software like Linux is easier for them to use.
I was talking to my mom about installing linux after wiping my laptop, and she was just aghast at the idea, cuz shes worried about me bricking it. Im gnna do it anyway, fuck u maaaaaaaa :penguin-dance:
If I could die anytime between lunch and 10 years from now I sure as shit am not wasting any time fucking around with my devil box that's what my grandkids are for I ALREADY PAID MY DUES TO SOCIETY, FUCK YOU
A lot of it is very accessible. Lots of research goes into making it accessible, I think the only part of it all that is (deliberately) not accessible is the cookie pop-ups, etc
Kinda my point. Shit gets redesigned all the time with no regard for how long it takes for someone to get used to the tech, or even for the tech get used to itself. Whether its Microsoft with ANOTHER version of windows that breaks everyones GPUs and costs more money. I dont feel like punching down on poor boomers, we'll be the same way if youre lucky enough to get that old and Google is still making shit. Time is a flat circle :rust-darkness:
Did you get yelled at by a boomer over a service hotline? Thats what we could avoid if people were more technically literate, which wont happen of you add a new "accessible" features every two years. I assume google assistant works the way it does so it can funnel people DIRECTLY to the google search engine. Google profits off of boomer incompetence, why would they make things easier for the sake of making things easier unless it gives them more money. I guess to me its more akin to swindling old people, then lettings call center employees deal with the shit. Sucks for everyone except Google
I have to call my ISPs tech support all the time because they constantly fuck up shit on their end. It takes a few minutes everytime to convince them I actually know what I'm talking about. Like mother fucker I've been building computers since before you were born, I know how to read stack overflow as well as you, just fix yo shit.
Heaven forbid any of this shit be accessible for older people. Critical support to our boomer comrades against Google
It's not that it's unaccessible, it's that companies like Google and Microsoft push you towards using shittier, less usable options because it allows them to control your experience, sell more data and ads, and discourage you from poking around in general. Older people don't have the time to poke around and figure out all this often times, so ironically free software like Linux is easier for them to use.
I was talking to my mom about installing linux after wiping my laptop, and she was just aghast at the idea, cuz shes worried about me bricking it. Im gnna do it anyway, fuck u maaaaaaaa :penguin-dance:
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??? Old people have nothing but time
They move a lot slower and have zero curiosity or patience.
If I could die anytime between lunch and 10 years from now I sure as shit am not wasting any time fucking around with my devil box that's what my grandkids are for I ALREADY PAID MY DUES TO SOCIETY, FUCK YOU
A lot of it is very accessible. Lots of research goes into making it accessible, I think the only part of it all that is (deliberately) not accessible is the cookie pop-ups, etc
Kinda my point. Shit gets redesigned all the time with no regard for how long it takes for someone to get used to the tech, or even for the tech get used to itself. Whether its Microsoft with ANOTHER version of windows that breaks everyones GPUs and costs more money. I dont feel like punching down on poor boomers, we'll be the same way if youre lucky enough to get that old and Google is still making shit. Time is a flat circle :rust-darkness:
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Did you get yelled at by a boomer over a service hotline? Thats what we could avoid if people were more technically literate, which wont happen of you add a new "accessible" features every two years. I assume google assistant works the way it does so it can funnel people DIRECTLY to the google search engine. Google profits off of boomer incompetence, why would they make things easier for the sake of making things easier unless it gives them more money. I guess to me its more akin to swindling old people, then lettings call center employees deal with the shit. Sucks for everyone except Google
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:sicko-hexbear: :google-cool:
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exactly, thats why I say critical support. Make google hurt, not your papa :deng-stoned:
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Like, if you know what you're doing why did you call tech support?
I have to call my ISPs tech support all the time because they constantly fuck up shit on their end. It takes a few minutes everytime to convince them I actually know what I'm talking about. Like mother fucker I've been building computers since before you were born, I know how to read stack overflow as well as you, just fix yo shit.