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I sometimes work with students too, and the level of general tech knowledge is very low indeed. I understand not knowing how to use a copy machine, since they
by ajsnigrutin 4y ago
I sometimes work with students too, and the level of general tech knowledge is very low indeed.
I understand not knowing how to use a copy machine, since they don't have a copy machine at home. But not knowing how to change notification settings in apps, or generally turning off spammy notifications (in android) is something completely different.. they have the device in their hands for many hours per day, and the spammy notifications come daily, and yet they don't even try to figure it out how to disable them.
Privacy settings, again, are something they have no idea how to use or set.
Stuff like scanning multipage documents into a single pdf (there are many many apps to do that) are revelation to many.
And i'm not talking 14yo kids here, i'm talking about engineering students.
- Dalewyn 4y ago>and yet they don't even try to figure it out how to disable them. For most people, the cost to figure that out is higher than the cost of ignoring notifications and default settings.
- ghaff 4y agoA lot of people also just think that getting notified about every little last event is the accepted way of doing things.
- antisthenes 4y ago> For most people, the cost to figure that out is higher than the cost of ignoring notifications and default settings. It's not, because they don't try to evaluate the time savings realized by disabling those notifications, because they don't possess the critical thinking skills to do so. Or, some updates were pushed to the OS and they gave up, because it reset their settings.
- Dalewyn 4y agoFor most people, the time spent to figure that out is more than the time spent ignoring notifications and default settings.