2026-07-24 13:43 UTC
@amras@town.friendmaterial.lgbt
Tech nerd here:
1. Computers are not easy to use. The Windows/Mac/smartphone model of "user-friendly" only works because it dramatically limits what you can do with one. Most UX is about making software easy to use *without first learning anything*.
2. Reading a technical manual in a way that gives you useful information is an invisible skill that most tech people don't realize they have. Someone smarter than me needs to write down how to learn that.
(ctd)
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@suetanvil@freeradical.zone 2026-07-24 13:53
@amras@town.friendmaterial.lgbt 3. There is a wealth of incredibly powerful software tooling available but it requires up-front learning and tends to not have a conventional end-user UI and so will intimidate nontechnical users. It is well worth figuring them out though, if only so that they no longer intimate you.