bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

In the village of Nashtifan, Iran, some of the oldest windmills in the world, with what may be the earliest windmill design in the world, still spin.
Made of natural clay, straw, and wood, they have been milling grain for flour for an estimated 1,000 years

Tarkovsky really was a cut above.

@Hyolobrika

You might have hit on the problem - that very concept isn't as well-understood as it was in the past. Navigating around a city used to involve reading a physical map, so by necessity we maintained a mental model of how our surroundings are laid out and named, and of where we are in relation to things. Recently, though, I've been meeting more adults who don't have this understanding. To them, the world is a big unsorted collection of addresses, and the little blue line on your phone's GPS magically guides you to the one you want. "The highway" is one amorphous entity to these people; they can identify that they're on an expressway and not a side road, but route numbers are meaningless to them and they are amazingly skilled at ignoring the signs they're driving past. Asking "which highway" I'd take to get to someone's home recently got me a blank stare from a person who's lived there *seven years*.

I have no trouble picturing the idea that the computer's files are located in a system of nested folders being completely foreign to a sizable chunk of incoming engineering students. They can probably understand that they typed their essay on the laptop, so it's saved on the laptop and not the phone, but asking for a more specific location than that will get you a less-than-useful response: "Uhh... I saved it in Word?" They're trained to quickly flick through screens of photos on their phones, pages of search results on their laptops, scrollboxes of recommendations on their smart TVs; ignoring everything except for what they're looking for. And they're *good* at it. So even the ones who have seen "New Folder" in some context menu have never thought it would be useful - better to just dump everything in one place where you can take it all in with a single sweep of your eye.

@r000t @essie

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@Hyolobrika @essie Human behavior is incentives.

A great user experience means the user doesn't have to learn anything. So nobody had to. So nobody did.

Those of us who had hobbies that required learning, learned. Everyone else, was a consumer.

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LMFAO

Jesus fucking christ can this get anymore retarded

Me, 1991:

Woaaa! Robots are cool! 🤖 👍

Me, 2021:

Figuring out that I am asked by a robot (a web server) to prove that I am NOT a robot, and that I can't as it would imply to execute javascript code from a company (Google) that I block because -among others- it helps guide US killer-robots to their targets (project Maven), it owns dozens of drone companies and the patent portfolio of Boston Dynamics... 💣 💥 🤯

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"One toot a day keeps the tw*tter away"

-Fediverse proverb

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