well thankfully it’s not self aware

On the third hand if people didn't constantly ask this, those search results would not exist, especially for more obscure queries.

Reddit became the #1 source for search engines for a reason

it's so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.

100%. People will 'Google' celebrities, memes, "Why is my poop green?", but also just be like "Somebody hand me an answer." When they risk learning something.

"The Internet is like having access to the Library of Alexandria, and everyone wants to just gossip about each other in the lobby."

--I think I read this on bash.org at some point

Don't quote me on that tho.

--Me.

BUT ALSO like the others said...if somebody's legitimately curious, let's be nice about it because somebody new learning about our thing is a net positive.

YEP.

I used to work in a library computer lab. It was soul sucking, how many people older than millennials couldn't friggin handle a basic computer. I heard the words "I clicked the 'E' for 'internet'." multiple times A DAY. (Thanks, 1990's Microsoft and No Child Left Behind.)

"CaNt I jUsT uSe My PhOnE?" (Which would be a million more steps on my part...thanks, 2006 apple, and defunding schools.)

The biggest ragebait for me was "I dOn'T kNoW cOmPuTeRs, I'm oLd ScHoOL."

I'm like "PCs have been increasingly commonplace since the mid-1980's. It's currently the 2020's. You're like 56. HOW 'OLD' IS YOUR SCHOOL?! Because somehow you drove a car here!"

I imagine a certain weird kind of "privilege", to have been able to somehow dodge computers and learning this entire time, when they were so often found in homes, schools, and workplaces.

Like it takes significant effort to somehow avoid even an accidental education. HOW?!

It's...infuriating. These rubes can gleefully scroll tiktok and dump all their personal lives into Facebook, but freak out about sending an email.

Many of them were even around to try the Internet during Eternal September and AOL, and now they've exchanged the squishy fat in their skulls for convenient slop.

I'd bend over backwards to patiently teach, but few cared to learn.

Their collective, willful ignorance is why we're fighting a constant uphill battle against attempts to turn the entirety of computing into nothing but a commercialized authoritarian hellscape.

I left that job because if I heard one more "Kids are born so smart with these computers because my (grand)kids can watch their cocomelons all by themselves." I would've snapped and been booked for assault.

Lol /rant

...clearly this is a button for me...I have sought help in the past...

That’s weird because mid 40s (to mid 50s) should be the ideal age to know this stuff right now.

Learnt helplessness has become a real thing around the world.

I know a lot of people who could normally wrap their head around basic computing and troubleshooting in the 2000s, who now go into a near panic attack if the apps on their iPhone suddenly look different...

Yeah, like 'google it' instead of 'look it up'

What is it called nowadays?

My wife did the same on signal. When I showed her the "Note to self" feature she was amazed an. started using it. She use to get annoyed that we would text and her note would get lost but now it doesn't.

It isn't about finding the best, it is about finding better than the worst. My wife needs the features Obsidian has, she says she wished her notes would visually link together. What she doesn't know is that such apps exist.

She wishes she could sync files between her phone and computer and not have to go to a website to get them. syncthing does that.

lol, are you me? Our Signal chat is ⅓ chat, ⅓ grocery list, and ⅓ my wife's notes to herself.

I have worked at places like that. The issue is real. But I have also asked for apps to be audited to get on the approved list. Again not always possible.

But I still think the general issue stands. There are a lot of people unaware of software. I even know developers who have never learned their tools and built muscle memory but instead just used whatever came with their computer because they aren't out there looking.

I have a love-hate relationship with Logseq. I fantasise about rewriting it to better suit my needs, but it's definitely a lot of work to do this for both desktop and Android.

I've tried it before and I like the concept but in my head I struggle using something not directly how it was intended. I want content rich notes, not just bullets. Yes logseq has support but it just feels wrong for some reason.

If it was around two jobs ago when I was just copying lots of meetings I would have been all over it.

Also I never was able to get Logseq and syncthing to work. I doesn't seem to let files be modified in the background and would lock up.

I'm loving Logseq. It's the open source software I support monthly. It (plus what I learned from "Building a Second Brain" by Tiago Forte) changed my life. Having a low-barrier (daily journal everything) place to dump everything (easily discoverable later with back-linking tags) helps me manage my ADHD.

I highly recommend it. Once you wrap your head around the idea that the daily journal is where you dump just about everything, it's pretty smooth sailing. (The daily journal automatically dates everything, then the pages themselves automatically pull a reverse chronological feed of every time you wrote about the thing, and queries allow for more targeted, dynamic searching, like all tasks due in the next week, or all tasks for the project, etc.)

I found Logseq to be pretty confusing honestly. I ended up settling on Trilium.