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"How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 (pages.gseis.ucla.edu)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A friend shared a post from someone else that was talking about this article. I've quoted the text from that post below:

This is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. It's strikingly resonant with 'how to be a parent', or really 'how to help anyone with anything'. A nice example of "the universal within the particular"

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

I'm finding it difficult to help at work as I stopped using Windows years ago.

The search function fails to find basic menus or programs, I'd have an easier time using Windows XP. I'm sure part of it is I'm forgetting things and not up to date with changes but when typing "printer" does not give a useful result either it's as shit as I hear it is out of the box from M$ or it has been crippled by work's OEM.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I use VoidTools Everything for searching. It's absolutely lightning fast and super powerful.

The built in Windows search is such garbage

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Nice to find another Everything user, can never go back to not using it after discovering it.

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