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  • That’s the one thing old people just don’t do: they won’t read what’s presented on the screen.

    I think it comes from growing up before GUIs, so they think of an interface as a set of buttons on a console. There was very little reason to read an interface back when they were all physical; you either knew what each button did or you didn’t and you only had to memorize it once.

    Like, the controls of a T-38 tank are always the same. The controls of a ‘57 Chevy are always the same.

    Once GUIs came into play, people started interacting with orders of magnitude more control interfaces, so the concept of “there is no manual; the interface is self-documenting” came into existence.

    Now you’re supposed to learn the interface and use it on the first encounter, which means reading what the interface is saying.






  • I need to get out of my depression. I didn’t realize I was depressed until I had a dream, just now, where I ran into an old college classmate. She was telling me how depressed she was and I was just thinking “but your life is like mine”.

    I just self-administered the IHQ-9 and it indicates me as having “severe depression”. So I need to get that figured out.

    In the past I’ve taken medication for it, but I can’t seem to find any arrangement that allows me to take the medication continually. This really worries me. My life is a total failure including financially.

    A family member has been helping me financially but it’s ruining their finances to do so.