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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by leadingthenet on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:21AM (#21700768)
I think you overestimate the tech skills of your average user. I know so many people for whom typing "how do I X" in Google is too difficult, and will flat out refuse to do it.

That's not to say that I think we should be dumbing down software for them. In fact, we should be doing the exact opposite.

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Re:The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the ... by umanwizard on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:23AM (#21700783)
You're not wrong. I suppose all I can say is that software companies have every right in a free society to cater to people like that to the detriment of technical users... and I have every right to vote with my feet and wallet.

(There's a reason OpenBSD and macOS are both alive and well.)

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