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[sigmaleph]

as an aside re: previous post: I always feel uncomfortable talking out loud about accomplishments doing things with computers.

because, while I am in fact better with computers than the average person, even the average person who grew up with internet access, I am also substantially worse at them than a good chunk of the people reading my posts. Saying I accomplished something is almost bragging, y'know, and I know there's a good chance that everything I did there was a better way to do and obviously I am inviting social retribution by claiming to be good at a thing I'm not, in fact, good at.

This is a bad instinct but I still have it and I have to fight past it.

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[feotakahari]

I’m worse at computers than, if not the average person, at least the average person who uses computers regularly. It’s still an accomplishment when I get something working.

[brin_bellway]

Yeah, I feel pretty similarly. I tend to think of myself as being just okay at computers because I'm surrounded by professional and/or passionate computer people, but every so often I encounter people who are not into computers and I'm like "oh".

(My latest accomplishment was learning to use the mass-rename function in Ubuntu's default file-explorer GUI (*checks name of program* Nautilus). My lifelogger's filename format isn't quite what I want it to be, and there doesn't seem to be a setting to change that on the device itself, so I'm now renaming groups of files much more frequently than I used to.

...honestly, "Ubuntu user" kind of sums up what level I'm operating on in a nutshell, doesn't it. *Relatively* normie, but not *actually* normie.)