• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    everyone wanted a way to speak to their computer

    No one who has the slightest idea of how to use a computer has ever wanted that.

    That’s an awfully stupid, obnoxious, inefficient, and unreliable way to control an interface.

    Want your computer to do things, read the fucking screen (seriously, 99% of IT is just that, 99% of the remaining 1% is reading the fucking manual, and 99% of what remains is trauma from having encountered some related undocumented issue in the past and having had to solve it by yourself), and click on whatever option does what you want.

    Or use the command line if that’s your thing.

    Want to automate something, use whatever task scheduler your OS comes with. It’s not rocket surgery.

    Want it to do something it doesn’t already do, that’s what programming is for. And 99% of the time someone else has already done it, for free more often than not, so just save yourself time and use their work.

    If you need a slop machine to operate your computer, you are not qualified to operate it (or any other form of machinery; computers are easy, as I said, just read the fucking screen, and the manual for good measure), and shouldn’t be allowed near one lest you become a risk to yourself and others.

    • BJW@lemmus.org
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      5 days ago

      That’s some high quality elitism right there! Is computer usage the only thing you gatekeep?