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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.

[Caption below the panel]
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

  • guymontag@lemmy.ml
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    14 hours ago

    I said “web browser” when talking to a mac user. They had noo idea what I was talking about till I said safari xd.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.social
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      7 hours ago

      I’ve taken to calling it ‘The internet App’ when talking to none techy people.

      The real annoying one is getting people to find the “Start” button on Windows realizing it hasn’t be branded that since XP.

        • onnekas@sopuli.xyz
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          4 hours ago

          I’ve heard people referring to the internal search function of a program as “google”.

          One time someone wanted to use “find and replace” in VsCode and he just said “I google the word and replace it”.

          • rethnor@lemmy.zip
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            52 minutes ago

            This is much more when when using ducksuckg. “I duck the word and replace it” “I’ll just duck the answer”

        • Demdaru@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          Oh, that’s a funny one. Google didn’t want you to use that either, as they almost lost right to their own name copyright (or they did? Can’t remember) due to it becoming common word xD