1188
Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/enshittification@lemmy.world
244 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

They absolutely compared OS X to Chrome OS by directly comparing what Apple did in the 90s and 00s to what Google did in the 10s. If you take the comment as its own isolated thing, sure; if you understand it as a response to another comment (which it is), then the comparison is smacking you in the face.

What planet am I on right now? Should this conversation be about media literacy instead of tech literacy?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It is rich that you are suggesting this should be about media literacy. How do you connect "what apple did on the 90s" and "what chrome OS did in the 00s" (which it was the 10s, not the 00s) as a direct comparison between operating systems? What the commenter is suggesting is that both google and apple had a hand in making students not prepared to interact with technology, not that they did it in the same way.

    I don't even agree with that statement as I believe being exposed to macs at school (and likely windows at home) woild be beneficial to tech literacy. But you couldn't even comprehend enough to engage with the point. They were saying macos is not windows, and windows is what kids should be learning. Then you come in and yell and scream about mac being better than chrome.

    You were down voted because you were wrong and an asshole

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    How do you connect "what apple did on the 90s" and "what chrome OS did in the 00s" (which it was the 10s, not the 00s) as a direct comparison between operating systems?

    Because they're directly saying that Apple did with Macintosh what Google did with Chromebooks and that wasn't a problem for real-world tech literacy.

    What the commenter is suggesting is that both google and apple had a hand in making students not prepared to interact with technology, not that they did it in the same way.

    Except that they're using iMacs as a precedent that dumbed-down Chromebooks didn't (at least substantially) harm tech literacy. My interpretation is somehow a generous one, because the other interpretation is that they're comparing the iMac being complex but different from the industry standard to Chrome OS being dumbed down. These are two vastly different things.

    I comprehended enough: either option is stupid as fuck – just one indicates a lack of evidence while the other indicates a lack of basic logic.

    You were down voted because you were wrong [...]

    I'm wrong? Yeah, I originally said "00s and 10s" for Chrome OS because I thought it came out in 2008, but I looked it up and corrected myself yesterday(?) to just "10s" – completely incidental to the point of my comment. Did you notice too that OS X didn't exist in the 90s but I called it that anyway for simplicity? No? Oh, that's right: no one actually gives a shit.

    Meanwhile, they're spouting provable and obvious misinformation about how Chrome OS doesn't have a user-facing folder system, so I think your explanation for why I was downvoted should leave out "I was wrong". Clearly the voters didn't give a shit about factual accuracy. I'm sure the other commenter used Chrome OS enough to judge it when they're saying that. Weird how you didn't address the part of my comment correcting transparent misinformation.

    You were down voted because you were [...] an asshole

    I was an asshole. And any mixture of "wrong" and "an asshole" gets blind upvotes on Lemmy all the time. No, what got me downvotes is that Lemmy doesn't have Reddit's hidden votes feature that stops a cascade of morons blindly downvoting anything that's at negative (I was at +2, -23 when I made my second edit; just acknowledging that blind, uncritical downvoting took that ratio from ~1:11 to ~1:3). And I'll continue being a condescending asshole until this Lemmy equivalent of boomers giving one star to businesses they've never been to – because Google asked them to rate their experience – is dead.

    Have a nice day.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Based on this small exchange it seems like you erect straw men to knock down to inflate your intellectual self worth which is incredibly fragile based on how much you freaked out over a tiny correction that I didn't use at all in my argument.

    If you are actually interested in engaging with the topic try harder to read what I have said

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The 00s thing was the only demonstrably wrong part of my comment, and it was long-since corrected when you commented. So I asked why – when you argued that "being wrong" was a key component of the heavy downvotes – you took an aside for that yet conspicuously didn't mention how the comment with a 10:1 ratio spends half its length confidently spouting complete, easily disprovable bullshit about user-facing folder structures.

    Seems more like a mix of anchoring bias, the bandwagon effect, and a disregard for critical thinking than it does factual accuracy, unless the tone policing component swamps everything else.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Yes, you were wrong that the original poster was suggesting that mac is the same as chrome is in its structure. They were instead saying macos contributed to poor tech skills just as chrome OS is now. and iPads also contribute to this as Chromebooks do now. They can both contribute to the same cause even if they do it in different ways. Nowhere did they ever come close to mention macos is just as garbage as chrome OS. You added that bit in yourself to strawman. Therefore being "demonstrably wrong"

    And that was the entire substance of my discussion, how you were mistaken about the central point.

    You are also wrong about the folder structure piece. While yes chromeos technically contains a folder structure and also allows for the user to interact with it. The whole damn operating system is designed around you not needing to do that, in nearly the exact same way phones are. There's a reason that college professors in computer science departments are so confused why their students don't know how to use folder structures, and I'd wager quite a lot that chromeos has a large part to play.

    So there you go two demonstrable wrongs that have nothing to do with you missing a date

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent