There is no such thing as user friendliness

Today, I connected my camera to someone else’s Mac. But clicking through the photos on my camera proved impossible, the way I find this to be trivially easy on my clunky old PC with clunky old Windows. We could not make this work. Which just goes to prove that ancient computer truth. There is no such thing as “user friendliness”. There is only what you know how to make a computer do, which is trivially easy, and what you do not know how to make a computer do, which is impossible.

See you tomorrow. Maybe only as briefly as this. Or maybe not see you tomorrow at all.

Originally posted at Brian Micklethwait’s Old Blog

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