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Re:Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to fi... by TeMPOraL on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:13AM (#26512888)
It's fractal, I see this even in the tech industry itself - people are reluctant to sit down with a manual for an hour to figure out how some software (or device) works, and prefer to forever call it "too complicated to use", just because they couldn't grok it in 30 seconds.
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Re:Out of prison after 30 years and people telling him to fi... by etrautmann on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:30AM (#26513065)
The flip side of this is that interfaces are changing constantly. As soon as I've committed something to muscle memory, a forced app update will overhaul a UI and I need to relearn where to find basic commands. When compounded by the hundreds of programs I use across multiple OS's and platforms, I get used to just assuming that interfaces are and features constantly in flux. This means that I invest less in deeply learning any specific tool.
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