#like dgmw having the intuition to figure shit out by pressing buttons is a learned skill in and of itself that many people r lacking | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dullahandyke · 10 months ago

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also re looking at the laptops of ppl in front of you in lectures, its actually doing wonders for my perceptions of the average computer user's tech literacy. im so used to circles on here being like 'and of course we're all on firefox with these 6 extensions and digging the algorithms out of our operating systems' meanwhile today in a lecture i saw someone with a lenovo driver pinned to their taskbar. ???

#im establishing myself as tech-proficient-enough-to-stand-out-in-an-arts-class by making my laptop look fucking stupid #they dont even know you can put the taskbar to the right instead of the bottom of the screen #or that u can turn off font smoothing to make everything look worse #oh also i finally got around to backing up all my files so the linuxification is impending #like my problem is that i look at people on here who like specialise in computers n shit n im like #aw jeez i only kind of know what a bios is... im such a poser....#meanwhile my family are enraptured by me bcos i can type fast and press buttons #like dgmw having the intuition to figure shit out by pressing buttons is a learned skill in and of itself that many people r lacking #but it always feels a bit bullshit to pull out of my back pocket. oh yeah im just smart #basically when it comes to my computer i say that my MO is that i care about privacy and open source shit #but really i just like having control. and sometimes control means making things worse on purpose just bcos u can

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