I remember being in 4-5th grade and learning about graphs. Specifically x & y coordinates. One day while cleaning the mouse ball before playing Joust or whatnot I noticed two little geared spindle thingy’s. I vividly remember it clicking that those gears were translating the physical mouses x&y to the screens cursor’s x&y.
this is how most of us learned computer right? You want to play something, it doesnt work or only partialy so you open it up and learned how to fix shit.
That’s my problem with Apple. They hide all files, treating is as a magic box with an incredible search function. But it prevents the user from understanding, and thus learning.
My wife has an iPhone and iPad and I thought she was an idiot trying to describe what was happening when I sent her an ePub file. Turns out that’s just the way it works…
Are you talking Apple back in the day or Apple now? It sounds like you’re talking about Apple now. It still sucks compared to a real *nix but you can still pull up a terminal.
Gen Z as well. My childhood was all cracking things open and seeing what’s inside. Then when I was in my teens they stopped making things easily openable. Fuckers
I remember being in 4-5th grade and learning about graphs. Specifically x & y coordinates. One day while cleaning the mouse ball before playing Joust or whatnot I noticed two little geared spindle thingy’s. I vividly remember it clicking that those gears were translating the physical mouses x&y to the screens cursor’s x&y.
this is how most of us learned computer right? You want to play something, it doesnt work or only partialy so you open it up and learned how to fix shit.
That’s my problem with Apple. They hide all files, treating is as a magic box with an incredible search function. But it prevents the user from understanding, and thus learning.
what do you mean where is the file, John? It’s saved! It’s downloaded!
My wife has an iPhone and iPad and I thought she was an idiot trying to describe what was happening when I sent her an ePub file. Turns out that’s just the way it works…
Apple is just overcooked Linux.
Are you talking Apple back in the day or Apple now? It sounds like you’re talking about Apple now. It still sucks compared to a real *nix but you can still pull up a terminal.
If by “us,” you mean Millennials, then yes.
Gen Z as well. My childhood was all cracking things open and seeing what’s inside. Then when I was in my teens they stopped making things easily openable. Fuckers