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I don't want to be a.... (infosec.pub)
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[โ€“] andybytes@programming.dev 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'm always like, read the screen. But you know what? Sometimes they can't fucking see the screen. So you gotta get them a bigger screen. They also won't admit that they can't see the screen. So you're going to have to pick up on cues. If you find yourself saying over and over again, you know, read the screen. You see that on the screen? over in the right hand side of the screen. On the screen.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Is usually around this point in time that they admit that they haven't actually got the computer in front of them. I guess they're just trying to memorise the instructions or something.