Comment on Memories of a bygone era
Maiq@lemy.lol 1 week ago
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.
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
what do you mean where is the file, John? It’s saved! It’s downloaded!
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
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…
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Apple is just overcooked Linux.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
If by “us,” you mean Millennials, then yes.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
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