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  • Very often they do. Many of these internal applications are from mainframe computer times when interacting with applications exclusively via the keyboard shortcuts was the norm. In most companies, they never dared to remove those because the Power Users are used to them for decades.

    Problem is, few people are trained directly by those power users so they never learn those efficient shortcuts. And they are never well documented.








  • But that’s the thing. When that Video was made, almost all of the advertising was focused on the same BS the article is disagreeing with.

    I remember lots of NordVPN ads by uninformed nontechnical creators just reading the provided script. Saying that Balaklava wearing hackers will steal your credit card data just by being in the same cafe as you, and only an expensive VPN subscription can protect you from that. Or that only using a VPN will protect you from malware.

    This sort of advertising is what Tom Scott critizied back then. IIRC he even said that there are real use cases, but that you shouldn’t believe the fearmongering. Same as the article.

    The fearmongering advertising was the problem, not advertising the service itself.



  • _MusicJunkie@beehaw.orgtoChat@beehaw.orgHow is Interrail?
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    1 year ago

    Normal seats on night trains suck, that’s the first thing that comes to mind. If you ever take a night train on your interrail journeys, pay extra for a bed.

    I’ve been exclusively travelling by train for many years, it’s pretty great. Europe has a lot of places to see.