Comment

What’s with the “ooga booga woman scared by tech” meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it’s not like it’s underground.

And just have it downloaded? “Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then.” Then start the download. If it’s popular, you’ll he the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she’s that “confused” by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone interested, I can’t imagine setting something up would make them leave? “Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a… A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???”

I don’t know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya’ll.

source

Sort:hotnew top

P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I like your comment because it tells me why I didn’t found this that much funny.

source
- remotedev@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I thought it was supposed to be an old person confused
  
  source
  - 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I like that. Anon just likes hanging with cougars, even if they’re not always tech savvy.
    
    source
  - blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    A person would have to be very old indeed to be out of range for knowing about HDMI cables.
    
    source
Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m choosing to interpret it as her getting skeeved out over anon not having their shit together.

not downloading the movie in advance not knowing about the “download in sequential order” option on the client that lets you start watching quickly

source
- 2ugly2live@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That makes more sense 🤔 Guess jokes on me for assuming it was the other way lmao
  
  source
  - Omniraptor@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    no, that was the point of the original post. I just decided to imagine a better version in my head D:
    
    source
Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Tech literacy has peaked hard with millenials.

source
Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Don’t think it is about women being scared by tech, but “normies” only really knowing how to use Netflix to watch a movie.

source
- Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Although that may be true the ‘normies’ I’ve spoken with about this aren’t necessarily stupid. They may just not have it on the radar because it’s not their interest, some show interest in how it works and at worst I’ve found they say oh that’s interesting it’s pirating right? And that’s it.
  
  My coworker is super non tech savvy and has no interest and even she just says ‘it flies over my head but I trust you to get it done’.
  
  4channers now a days aren’t even good at making up lies/making shit posts. All they can do is low level rage bait. Pathetic.
  
  source
JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
In the post the woman is not the butt of the joke for being tech illiterate (and I’d argue they aren’t presented as that), the joke is on Anon for insisting on using free/techy stuff rather than costly but convenient things and ruining the vibe of the evening. This could just as easily say “Anon, why are you still fiddling with the picture settings? It looks fine. Motion blur? I don’t know what that is. It looks fine. Just watch the movie.”

source