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comment by cgod
cgod  ·  2696 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

    I have been thinking lately that the push towards "usability" within applications has only increased abstraction and made it more difficult to know what is actually going on in the computer.

Good god yes. I can edit my registry but I find most social media software to be burdened with so many options and lingo that I loose interest before I gain proficiency in their use.

It's thing like moving files on my phone. Some phones make it really hard to just plug it into a computer and open files and move them. They try to force a intermediary to manage all your data that only makes things slower with more buttons and options that I have to parse and figure out before my data gets moved.

If I'm not afraid to muck about deep in my computers guts It should be child's play to move a few goddamn files but often I find it something other than straight forward.