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Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
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On 6/27/25 3:49 PM, Rich wrote:
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>> On 6/24/25 4:38 PM, Rich wrote:
>>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>>> On 6/24/25 12:52 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-06-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:47:40 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...I tend to think command-liney since I'm a CP/M fan at heart....but
>>>>>>> Linux is okay, too, don't get me wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unfortunately Linux doesn’t have those drive letters that CP/M fans know
>>>>>> and love.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> MS-DOS copied them, though, and Windows still uses them to this day. You
>>>>>> might be more at home over there.
>>>>>
>>>>> What's so great about drive letters?  /mnt/driveF works well...
>>>>
>>>>     Um ... NO.
>>>>
>>>>     Long long office experience here. The rank and
>>>>     file can RELATE to drive letters, but NOT anything
>>>>     more abstract.
>>>
>>> The rank and file might have been able to relate, a little, back when
>>> their machine had a floppy disk, and it was A: that one used to access
>>> the disk.  And only then to the extent that "to use this floppy disk
>>> here, insert it into this slot labeled A:".
>>>
>>> But much of the rank and file do not even know where their files are
>>> stored (they don't understand nested directories, and have no idea of
>>> "the path to the file".  Which is why you find many with every file in
>>> "documents" (one level, no subdirectories) or every file on "desktop"
>>> (because then they get a big icon that they can remember is "near the
>>> top right corner".
>>
>>
>>    Trust me, they do NOT understand ANYTHING about
>>    storage or devices anymore. Bank you head against
>>    it all you want - you will see NO success.
> 
> Indeed.  In fact, there are those who use "computers" (provided by $job)
> daily, where if you shift the icons by 1cm in any direction, they
> become lost and unable to function.
> 
> They 'learned' to click on "this spot" on the screen, and if the button
> that was there moves away (only a small amount is needed) they become
> unable to locate it until the new location is pointed out by someone
> else.


   Ah ... "users"  :-)

   Had an otherwise intelligent gal - she re-wrote the
   whole yearly budget spreadsheet - but she was death
   with GUIs and too often dragged whole deep folders
   or even once the entire contents of the drive she
   usually used off "somewhere". Was using SAMBA and
   had to extend the auto-trash wipe time for her out
   to over a month because of the inevitable "have
   you seen my payroll folder ?" question  :-)