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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
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Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)
made with this neat tool
I think asking why people use Google these days is totally valid, because it is not even good anymore
Don’t even get me started on how many people don’t even know what an address bar is. They Google everything.
The vast majority of people don’t give a shit don’t care and still would prefer to use it. Hell myself as a technical person in the IT field for 20 plus years would much rather use Google than most of the alternatives out there within the environment that I have to use to do the job I do.