Its so rough watching non vimmers use vim
a pro vim user watching a vim noob using arrow keys.
- Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of
/ - Using
:wqa!and then reopening the editor instead of just using:w - Deleting an entire line by hitting
xrepeatedly - Adding to the end of a like by pressing
iand then the right arrow key until they’re at the end of a line
STOP! You’re scaring the children!
Those last two made me physically recoil wtf
I’ve heard some people even use
:wqover:x….I’ve been using :wq for years…
Repent! Imagine all of the wasted productivity! Ahhhhhhhhh
- Using “cmd+f” to search terminal buffers instead of
Are you kidding? I remove nano on purpose so I can sit there and watch them struggle!
Brilliant! I’m putting this in a script and running it on every single server I have SSH access to.
You monster!
At my job I wrote a lengthy document on how to use vim, like the core concepts of the hot keys (each key has a meaning behind it, text objects and such). I feel like everyone was happy about it but no one used it at all. It’s painful as hell to see them fumble on vi and vim.
You can share it at !vim@sopuli.xyz I’m sure people (me included) would love to use it
I’d love to but it’s in French, don’t know if that’s a deal breaker or not ahah
Him being naked is completely unnecessary but enhances everything.
It’s completely necessary.
How else does one click hotkeys while standing?
The millennials are in the absolute worst position tech literacy wise. They had the boomers on one end and the zoomers on the other.
My niece struggled with using a mouse when she was in middle school – her experience with UI was exclusively touch screens prior to that.
The verge had an interesting article on this phenomenon
I’ll add “it’s not their fault”. In the race to make technology intuitive and idiot proof we’ve removed the need to actually learn how technology works past a superficial level.
Yup the first person i thought of when seeing this meme is my apprentice, he is 19 and has only ever had an iPhone and cheap Chromebook. Even at school and everyone he knows is the same. We work in controls and all the technician side programs are all interfaces straight out of the 90s, I let him use my laptop the one day and he can barely use the menus, cant use any office program, had no idea what an IP address is and if the default com port doesn’t work there is no way he was going to end up at the device manager page. Not that most people wouldn’t have a bit of a learning curve.
Its the “apps” and web-apps its just one more layer of abstraction to turn your computer from a tool into an appliance.
He’ll be fine eventually, he’s going to buy himself a real laptop and start playing with it he said and there’s the internet to learn anything he could need eventually. (Well not always where we work but hell manage). But I’d have almost the same difficulty teaching a young man who’d never seen a computer before as I would him.
Very interesting! It’s something I just cannot fathom as a 20-something year old. Granted, I’m a software engineer, but I’m very much like the professors in the article. It’s just so intuitive to me.
Makes me glad I’m a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn’t so “nice” to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.
Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn’t want to get a virus.
Come on. Dude. Give credit where credit is due. SMH…
It’s not SMH, it’s SMBC
SMH = Shaking My Head
It’s an Internet initialism.
I know. Just foolin’ :)
Oh. Sorry about that. Text is not a good medium for tone. xD
Comic good. Post title bad.
thats literally my job (web development teacher)
You poor soul.
clicks scrollbar with mouse and drags it, instead of using the scroll wheel
Mouse? OG experts fumble with the touchpad and touchpad buttons to drag the scrollbar down inch by inch.
right click -> copy; right click -> paste
Fool—the scroll wheel is a scalpel; the scrollbar is a broadsword. Use the right tool for the job.
I’ve seen someone briefly turn on caps lock to type a single capital letter, I wanted to scream
Former “IT” coworker would do that too. He apparently didn’t know how to type characters on tge number row, you know like & for example.
I called him out on him using caps lock instead of shift and he asked “what do yoy do, hold shift?” with a tone that implied I was the crazy one.
Please tell me your students aren’t making pages that load >5MB of uncompressed javascript and css
of course not, its >5mb of compressed javascript and css
La* torture
Uses vim with arrow keys
it’s «la torture» tho …
Torture is a woman, of course! <insert boomer laughter>
We found out that one of our co workers created tables of formulas in excel, then input a table in Word to manually type in and transfer over the table data. And of course the same formulas needed to be run through a desk calculator once more in case excel got that wrong the first time. Jaw dropping (when that person was shown about this magical copy/ paste feature, it was their jaw that dropped lol)
He’s copy and pasting uaing the right click menu
Wanna make it worse? Have the dummy user mumble-read EVERY. FRIGGING. WORD.
I’ve been watching game grumps playing TOTK and every time Arin opens the full inventory to change weapons, I die a little on the inside.
Where’s that comic about the guy watching someone Google a spare part and not use any of the search hacks?
Just recently got familiar with using multiple cursors in my ide. They’re much more useful than I thought they’d be
