• Rivalarrival
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    1 day ago

    Most people don’t care about automation. They just don’t.

    Microsoft would certainly have us believe that. Decades of operant conditioning by Microsoft and Apple have given us that attitude.

    Most people certainly do want automation; they don’t know how to automate. There was a meme floating around recently about a temp who replaced hours and hours of tedious, daily transcription between two applications with ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

    We have all seen plenty of examples like this, with users doing excessive manual labor out of simple ignorance of absurdly simple automation.

    And your still refusing the point.

    The point arises from the very attitude I am challenging, so yes, I am refusing the point. We should not be encouraging or supporting the behaviors you describe, but should instead be promoting the tools that allow the average user to identify menial tasks and relegate them to the machine.

    • DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      So fuck people with disabilities then?

      Your still believe computers are machines and not hand tools at this point.

      How much copy paste do you think the average user actually uses of their computer?