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"Ah man, I forgot my password."
"What's the hint?"
"'What is tasty?'"
"Hmm... Interesting philosophical question there. What is tasty? Is a thing tasty on its own or is it merely how one perceives it? Can anything truly be considered tasty, in an objective way...?"
"Oh! I remember. Candy. Candy is tasty!"
A McTasty?
Aren't immigrants supposed to be using a phone app to contact Kamala and enter illegally in the us or something? If that's the case, they should be hired to teach "most people" jow too install an app. I hear MacDonald's have a great one.
I just can't imagine Trump using any technology whatsoever. I'm impressed he manages to send tweets off.
I imagine he hunts and pecks with one hand while holding it in the other while squinting to read the letters (also nice name fello frog)
Why howdy to you too 🐸🫱🎩
As much as I despise Trump, I don’t disagree. I’m sure he’s saying that for stupid reasons, but most people are way more tech illiterate than they should be. I know bc I used to be tech support
Most people don't know "what" anything is in that case. Cars? Most people don't know what a clutch master cylinder is - they just know how to use the car. Most people don't know what an app is, since they don't understand the code language it was built in. Sure, they know how to use it but without knowing Java, it may as well be magic. Vaccines! No one knows what they are! There's no simple explanation so everyone who's ever used a vaccine has no idea what they are!
The average person does not have specialized knowledge about anything, even things ubiquitous to modern life.
Yeah, Trump is technically right here but at the end of the day, I don't really care if a firefighter knows exactly how every app on their phone works, just as long as they know how to put out fires and maybe rescue cats from trees.
Not to give the orange turd credit here, but I think it’s fairly obvious that Trump isn’t saying that most people can understand the code, but rather he’s saying that most people don’t have an understanding of how much an app can aid the wrong kind of people.
Yeah, he’s an idiot, and I entirely disagree, but you just went on a whole entire tangent about a position that I neither expressed or hold. Chillax, bro.
Maybe? You don't want cats to be rescued? Are you JD Vance?
More that I wish cats would just climb down themselves, ya know?
If you were working tech support of course you're going to interact with more "tech illiterate" people. That doesn't mean the "most people" are tech illiterate, you were just dealing with a high volume of them, giving that impression.
Oh yes, please tell me more about my personal experience, random stranger. Obviously, I’m going to come across more tech illiterate people on the phone, but to the extent that I did for the dumbest reasons would be enough for me to conclude that yes, most people have no clue what they’re talking about or what they’re doing. Literally way less knowledge than they should.
You came across many very dumb people, therefore most people are dumb. Seems logical. I work with thousands of meat workers, therefore most people must be meat workers. Your experience is more or less selection bias.
OK, I shouldn't have mentioned my past job, but it goes way beyond just tech support. The tech support experience just highlights the fact that most people are tech illiterate. There are studies that literally confirm this. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
It’s really bad though. Have you ever seen this study?
https://www.wyliecomm.com/2022/03/technology-literacy-skills/
Most people don't know what a phone app actually is.
That is 100% true
Usually, they're what should have just been a website.
Lmao, this is the normal curve meme, with Trump on the left, a lib on the center an a developer on the right.
I was thinking the same thing lol. "Do you mean like an apk or a pwa?"
Most people don't know how a freaking toaster AKKSCHULLY works. Who cares? It's of no consequence
Exactly. Is it just a webpage served up with some native UI buttons to make it look more glossy? Are app permissions implemented as separate system users under POSIX? How many apps are written in languages/frameworks running from interpreters, and how many actually touch bare metal? Are app media that use Gallery permissions duplicating data or linking to it?
No one knows what an app is, the app development frameworks I learned 10 years ago are no longer relevant and have likely shifted to a whole new paradigm. If it looks perplexing to me, I can imagine it looks like magic to non-techies.
The PWA frameworks are pretty cool. Essentially just system level API hooks which then integrate into a existing React - NextJs - whatever projects. Granted it isn't touching bare metal like you said but it is a nice level of a abstraction and beats dealing with android studio 🤢
Edit: I hear Expo is neat but I haven't used it yet.
beats dealing with android studio
It's been years since I went near Android for this reason, I've had some decent ideas for stuff I'd like to do on mobile but was so turned off on developing for the entire platform. Maybe I'll have to take a look at some of the new frameworks.
My trouble is I would prefer to write in an embedded style C/C++ for the agricultural stuff I want to do, and all this Java/JS stuff and heavy focus on fancy UX is really not my vibe.
I've used expo, which is really just react native with some helpful tooling around it. It was my first real project with react as well, and all and all I'd recommend it.
React native is pretty great, but there's a steep learning curve. Expo has some bugs, and once you get off the beaten path you might have some issues. You always have the option of ejecting to react native or native code, but the expo app is incredible - you can do live updates remotely, the app will just reload with the changes without rebuilding everything
I'll probably use it for most apps moving forward
Web pages are remote apps that you interface with locally (exceptions)
I know what they are! They're useless things McDonalds tries to goad you into installing with promises of a free $3 burger so they can sell all your data to everyone who wants it because apps have a higher level of access to it than m.mcdonalds.zip or whatever their shitty website is.
And some of the ones on F-Droid are actually useful.