Every time I do tech support for my family I get very angry about people who whine about lacking "tech literacy".
90% of the stuff I have to teach them is how to navigate manipulative software and dark patterns. This has nothing to do with tech, but with capitalism. Tech is not complicated, it is just made maximally confusing on purpose to remove agency.
Better tech ed won't fix this.
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You know, there was a time when it was a lot of 'Okay, click on the network that you just named, and...yes okay, but click....okay, the moving thing moves the cursor' tier.
A lot of really basic, really simple stuff that was a bit frustrating to deal with. However, that time is not now. People know how to open menus, pull up keyboards on their phones, know what 'the back button' is.
Now it's 'Yes, they deliberately obfuscated this and tricked you because they're awful, do this'.
@0xZogG @Oggie @piegames I live with that every day with people who struggle between click and double click and "What apple do you mean in the upper left corner of the screen?"
But yeah there's also actual design things like suddenly changing all the text entry to be right justified instead of left, which seems innocuous until you realize everyone is trying to click at the end of the text and they can't because it's such a small clickbox area now.
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