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[–] Bye 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll add to this that most people don’t understand the difference between a service and a client. Yes, even though they use email, to them it’s just “my gmail” and they don’t think past that. They don’t know you can use different clients, or the web. They just don’t. It’s an app on their phone.

The reason the internet was so great in the early 2000s is that THOSE PEOPLE WERENT ON IT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve had the most confusing conversation when a relative referred to their browser (Chrome) as “Google” (which to me means the search engine or the company, not the browser). It was only when they later mentioned Firefox as an alternative to Google that I realized what they were talking about.