The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?

Repurposing words like that is underrated.

Like this?

Or like this?

I’m torn on this discussion. Full disclosure, I don’t really understand GUIs and get confused with icons and such. I’m a command-line person and have been for decades. I’ll use image editors and IDEs and so on but they often leave me frustrated.

That said, I totally get that other people are not the same, and that’s completely valid. If a regular task can only be done from the command line then there’s an opportunity to fill in the missing piece, the GUI. It’s not a waste of time, even if the GUI is “less efficient” - it’s what a lot of people find comfortable.

Where I fall on the other side is the rise of ChatGPT and its friends. People are overwhelmingly positive about typing their problems into a text box, but when the response is “paste this into a terminal window and press enter” they bail out. They’re happier to go through a dozen screenshots showing them where to click through menus to get to the option visually, even if they have to try multiple times because the GUI changes with the direction of the wind and the terminal stays consistent.