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foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible) (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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alt textAn edit of xkcd 2501, "Average Familiarity":
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.

[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked "who still uses google these days?")

made with this neat tool

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[โ€“] 15 points 5 months ago (15 children)

The โ€œwho still uses Google?โ€ crowd forgets most people just want their computer to work, not become a weekend side quest.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 5 months ago

    Nonsensical argument. Just because a piece of software is FLOSS and non-Google, it is not automatically a "weekend side quest". Big Tech is very happy that these false equivalencies have spread as well as they did, but they don't hold a kernel of truth, at least not anymore.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I get the point, but going away from Google search is so easy.

    Gmail on the other hand I understand why people are still stuck using and I don't push them to switch away.

    But it drives me nuts that some normies in my life will complain that Google has gone worse, still refuse to switch. There are some who don't know how to change default and I still get it, but there is one mf at my work, he changed his default in edge from bing to Google and when I said since you know how to change default why not use DDG or startpage or honestly any other non giant alternative. He just says too much work.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Gmail was about easiest to switch away from. You can just create a new email account and have two mailboxes. Then update the new email to services as they go.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    With banks and financial services in general being a bitch about changing contact details. That's a form and a visit to the branch for each bank, broker, investment advisor, direct fund provider. That's already almost 30 applications. I haven't even counted stuff like vehicular services, government tax portal, property tax portal, electricity provider, gas provider, internet provider. Not all of whom allow changing for email address digitally or without some complicated support ticket.

    It's such a mountain of changes I myself have only gotten through the list halfway and it's been 4 years of trying. I can never recommend that to anyone in my family, they'll just hate me.

    P.s. This might just be my country specific problem, I understand other countries are easier.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think it might be specific to your country and it sucks.

    Here, banks are required to ask you to update your contact details once a year. You just log in as usually and sometimes they just give you a form to fill out with your phone number, email, physical address and stuff. If it's unchanged, you leave it all unchanged.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    Wow never thought about that, I changed it to all those digitally and it didnโ€™t require much at all. One service required me to send an email and that felt a bit old-fashioned, but nothing like you described.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah it's fucked. And the worst part is, most of these places don't even open on non working days, so I can't even do these on weekend.

    My country does have identity theft problem running rampart, so I don't totally blame the services, it's a pain but at least a leaked email password here and there wouldn't automatically mean losing access to finance. I understand why it's been designed such a way, but man it's a such a mountain of a task.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago

    Yeah itโ€™s fucked. And the worst part is, most of these places donโ€™t even open on non working days, so I canโ€™t even do these on weekend.

    Yes, because what working adult would have difficulties going to places between 9 and 5 on workdays

    It's so stupid. If you're going to have your physical location open exactly 5 days a week for a super important service people need to get to in person... make it tuesday thru saturday or something.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, switching search engines is pretty normie friendly. I've got a lot of non-techy friends or family, that use Ecosia or something. They also did it on their own, I didn't even encourage them to do it.

    With things like Linux it's a bit harder. But if they don't rely on any specialized software, they are usually fine with me offering to upgrade their Laptops so Linux. I installed Linux Mint on my Mom's Laptop and she can use it as well as Windows. She never complained about it.

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