• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      People on Lemmy, who kinda are on the upper echelons of technical aptitude, forget that the average user is really fucking dumb. Work a stint in level 1 IT and you will get the absolute wildest head smacking issues ever.

      And companies capitalize on that by making it incredibly easy to give them money.

      • answersplease77@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        My sister who is stupid with computers is a successful consultant with phd in her field lol.

        I’m not exaggerating to say 90% of people in the world treat PCs as non-intresting tools do their job. They have privacy-nightmare settings on their phones and never change the default apps or settings on their PC. That’s how tech companies earn their billions

    • xavier666@lemm.ee
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      5 months ago

      Adobe is worse than scammers. Scammers at least have the self realization that they are scamming. Adobe will steal your money and huff on the fumes that they are providing a valuable service by letting people open PDFs.

      I recently downloaded their PDF reader (because it’s the only app which allows for digitally signing a document with a visible cryptographic signature) and it’s 400 MB in size. In no world should a PDF reader be that large.