"Computer touching" really is just being a wizard.
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"Computer touching" really is just being a wizard. Like, for real. It's such a useful mental model that I have trouble calling it a metaphor.
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Xandra Granade 🏳️⚧️replied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes We may already be past the Clarke threshold, if only because we are so far past any single individual's ability to comprehend what a computer is.
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Mallory's Musings & Mischiefreplied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes Speaking specific incantations to the machines to make them think for you.
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packbat is a social constructreplied to !!__NORA__!! last edited by
@noracodes So, yesterday our computer wouldn't boot, and while that is a terrible situation and we spent all day today not dealing with it, we figured out how to investigate the issue, what we did, how it broke, and what questions to ask almost entirely by ourselves based purely on having learned a lot about Linux in the year-and-change we've been using it. And we did feel like a wizard, just ... one who's just blown the top floor off her wizard's tower.
And as someone from our group chat said, what wizard *hasn't* done that?
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!!__NORA__!!replied to packbat is a social construct last edited by
@packbat omg. i'm so sorry to hear that, but also, *yes* this is exactly what I mean!!!