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Favorite misnomers for common terms?

I recently taught my my lovely wife that the Windows Start button is called the Start button. Up until that point, she had believed the name of that button to be, I shit you not: "Waffle House."

What is the best misnomer you have heard a user come up for a well known piece of software or hardware?

u/ISureHateMyCat — 5 days ago
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"you are now entering the bizarre future" lol

and simultaneously there is no future, the future never comes

now is home, now is all we ever contact, now is where we live

your 'future job' (or funemployment) will work itself out as you simply be yourself and allow life to flow as it flows

from my perspective, many who thrive in the ever-shifting 'future economy' will be those who are fluid, adaptable, curious, self-educators, high-agency, willing to courageously act, build, create, experiment, go directly toward opportunities in bold & novel ways

peace,

jb

u/bashfulkoala — 6 days ago
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My most embarrassing failure in my tech journey

When I first started learning IT, I used to post tech-related things on my status because I wanted to build a reputation for myself and show people what I was learning.

One day, some of my friends asked me to configure the gamepad settings for FIFA 21. I tried to do it, but I forgot to save the settings, so the gamepad still wasn't working. After about 10 minutes of trying without success, they called another guy to help. The moment he worked on it, everything started working perfectly.

That incident completely changed how they saw me. The other guy gained a solid reputation, while I lost the respect I had been trying to build. Ever since then, my friends have seemed to regard me as someone who knows little or nothing about IT.

Years have passed, but I still feel like they judge my technical abilities based on that one embarrassing experience.

Looking back, I know that making mistakes is part of learning, especially when you're just starting out. However, it's frustrating when people continue to judge your abilities based on a single failure rather than how much you might have learned and improved since then.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? How did you deal with people who formed a negative opinion of your abilities because of one mistake?

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u/___Meeeeee — 5 days ago