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When you first get a device or a new program, you play with it. You turn things on and off and poke around in the preferences, right? Because you don't know e

When you first get a device or a new program, you play with it. You turn things on and off and poke around in the preferences, right? Because you don't know exactly how it's "supposed" to look by default, it might not be obvious to you that you've changed something fundamental about the interface or your preferences. I'm not sure that this happened to him, but it might well have; it's happened to me more than once (not just with Apple products). For example, because I had a checkbox ticked that said something like "move imported MP3s into my iTunes library"[1], iTunes destroyed my music library organization when I moved from Gentoo to OS X. Since my music still played on random without issues, I didn't even notice until I no longer had a backup of the old names. This made me hate iTunes so much that I still refuse to use it, but ultimately it came down to the same problem I think this fellow has with his keyboard: he messed around to see what options did what and later didn't remember that it wasn't like that by default, so he doesn't even know he can turn it off. [1] this was 2003; I don't remember the exact wording

snowwrestler 14y ago
> When you first get a device or a new program, you play with it. You turn things on and off and poke around in the preferences, right? I do, you do, but the vast majority of people do not. Apple products ship with sane defaults and I agree with the parent that it's not Apple's fault if someone fiddles a special keyboard on that was off when the box was opened. Regular folks just run with the defaults, which work fine for them. And the few people who work hard to become real experts on the platform do fine because they know at a deep level why problems occur. But in between there is a range of people who know enough about Mac technology to dig in and play around and do some technical troubleshootin, but are unable or unwilling to really really dig in and spend time on hard technical details. In my experience nobody has a harder time with Apple products than these "mid-range" folks.

snowwrestler 14y ago

> When you first get a device or a new program, you play with it. You turn things on and off and poke around in the preferences, right? I do, you do, but the vast majority of people do not. Apple products ship with sane defaults and I agree with the parent that it's not Apple's fault if someone fiddles a special keyboard on that was off when the box was opened. Regular folks just run with the defaults, which work fine for them. And the few people who work hard to become real experts on the platform do fine because they know at a deep level why problems occur. But in between there is a range of people who know enough about Mac technology to dig in and play around and do some technical troubleshootin, but are unable or unwilling to really really dig in and spend time on hard technical details. In my experience nobody has a harder time with Apple products than these "mid-range" folks.