I’ve got some more necessary pushback against the No one should know anything at all about how to do their jobs if it happens to involve a computer in some way mindset.

I’m not arguing that computers aren’t complex. Here I’m just standing against the idea that it should be permissible for someone not to know the name of the application they’ve used for 10+ years and that sort of nonsense.

In reality, someone not being able to recall or have any clue how to use their most commonly-touched tool is more akin to a grounds maintenance crewmember not knowing what a mower is or how to start it up. Look, clowns, we’re not asking people to program an OS from scratch or change BIOS settings. We’re just asking them as a driver to know what a goddamn steering wheel is (to switch to another metaphor).

Though I grew up using computers, I learned the essential control interfaces in a couple of days. They are not hard. I learned what the common applications were I use in a few seconds. And I did that when I was four years old. So if a four-year-old can do it so can you.

None of this is actually difficult. That we pretend like it is to coddle doofuses is just wrong IMO.