“Tech” is pretty broad. Sure, in software develo—-

nah only /s :)

Parts of 4chan’s take on the Big Bang Theory may fit the bill:

There’s gotta be a buncha tools that Clippy into the terminal to say “did you mean ____?” right? Including some new ones where they trained/fine-tuned a language model on man pages?

Interesting it’s not the most popular thing to use a GUI and use shortcuts for everything you want to do while still having the option to click through a menu or wizard for whatever you haven’t memorized. I suppose the power and speed of the command line are difficult to match if you introduce anything else, and if you spend time using a user interface that’s time you can’t spend honing your command line skills.

That’s so good I wish I needed to memorize the command

Contentious in the comments!

When you know for sure a statement (or reality) makes it impossible for something to gain mass-market adoption

Thennnnn comes the general public

“Holy Hannah!” That’s great

“Montana Banana!” also an acceptable exclamation

Neat

Thanks for a free answer you could charge somebody for :)

Google Sheets/MacOS

Aight gonna try it out

Thanks!

Heard you loud and clear. Maybe Later it is then.

Ohhhhh THAT

Point would stand in that I’d say $1 spent, $10 saved… but a million made by Apple 😉

I so often can’t stand e.g. important privacy toggles being hidden deep in settings, dark patterns that obfuscate permitted but unprofitable behavior - so you’d think I’d be with you on this 100%.

And yet…

If they had said “we don’t recommend you install this”

, grandma would hit OK without reading it.

For every dollar someone has paid tech support to help them install a desired app from an unidentified developer, I’d bet ten dollars have been saved from others not being able to install some spyware. Maybe that murky little dialogue box is good enough for the lowest common denominators that it outweighs the annoyance for us nerds? (Our small cost being we’re required to Searx once for the solution to learn how to bypass it)

Thanks :)

👏

I recognize there’s a likelihood you are usually being paid for answers like that. Thank you for satisfying my curiosity for free :)

Too young.

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