Re:The next Google
by Shared404 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:18AM
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> Take some youngsters under your wing and show them how a keyboard works instead of a touch screen.
This x1000.
The only way to ensure that future people can continue to maintain things is to teach those who are interested.
While I think we need to scale back the opaqueness of tech to the average user[0], there will always be some who just know more.
[0] By which I don't mean "more configuration options", because the average user doesn't want those.
I mean make it easy to access the source - and just as importantly make it easy to use changes to said source, so those who think, hm, I want this, can learn to fix it themselves, or find someone who can.
This x1000.
The only way to ensure that future people can continue to maintain things is to teach those who are interested.
While I think we need to scale back the opaqueness of tech to the average user[0], there will always be some who just know more.
[0] By which I don't mean "more configuration options", because the average user doesn't want those.
I mean make it easy to access the source - and just as importantly make it easy to use changes to said source, so those who think, hm, I want this, can learn to fix it themselves, or find someone who can.