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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.
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Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.
partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)
made with this neat tool
Old habits die hard. It used to be that the search box was separate from the address bar! In Firefox at least. I know I forgot to use it all the time and just went to google.com
This was two decades ago though. Even my stubborn ass has adapted and now I just use duckduckgo through the “awesome bar” as I believe it’s officially called. Can’t live with google as the search engine though. I need my bangs!
Yep, Firefox and duck all the way these days