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  • Echrichor@feddit.uktoTechnology@lemmy.world•It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime SubscriptionEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Wow. Read this (as a regular Amazon user) and thought “no way it’s that hard”. I tried, and including a multiple product side scrolling and with multiple options as 1 entry, the official one was 5th in the list, and you can only tell that’s the case because “Nintendo Switch” is bolded and you can check the seller when you click on it. Not impossible but certainly not as simple as you’d expect.

    I guess if you’re very used to it you don’t notice but I can see how that would jade or confuse new/inexperienced users and lead to buying the wrong or an imitation product.

  • Echrichor@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.ml•Google “search”
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    9 months ago

    Agree.

    I think people’s ability to effectively Google varies though. There are people who will write full questions in, or fail to iteratively improve their search terms based on the results, and ignoring the fact that bard is actually pretty good if they start using that, googling is much more effective if you stick to relevant keywords and search using operators.

  • Echrichor@feddit.uktoMemes@lemmy.ml•6÷2(1+2)
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    9 months ago

    Americans use PEMDAS, in the UK we use BODMAS, and I assume other English speaking countries use one or the other, but there is no difference between them in terms of order of operations, because it’s:

    1. brackets (parenthesis)

    2. orders (exponentials)

    3. division & multiplication (multiplication & division), performed left to right

    4. addition & subtraction, performed left to right

    People who choose to divide or multiply first because of the acronym have just forgotten that they go together left to right.

  • Echrichor@feddit.uktolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•A repost from r/linuxmemes - Because I saw the original comic
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    10 months ago

    Because it’s easier, and is more likely to “just work” using only the GUI. That makes it more accessible to people new to it, and as it is perfectly capable once you’re no longer new to it there isn’t much incentive to move away.

    Same reason many people choose iPhones, they can just turn it on and use it without thinking or needing to configure it. Meanwhile those with more knowledge who might actively be looking for customisation may prefer another option.