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    [–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 71 points 1 day ago (6 children)
    [–] janus2@lemmy.zip 95 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I live in the US. People are absolutely that fucking stupid.

    [–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I mean this is literally what I do in front of non-tech people to make them think I live in the Matrix. It's honestly kind of hilarious how well it works. Their eyes go wide and they think I'm Mr. Chip Hackerman.

    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

    It’s literally how scammers scam people every day too. Just open up command prompt and run

    tree c: /f
    

    And say it’s them visualizing the hacker, or scanning for viruses or something stupid.

    Most people today do not understand computers at all. Even those freshly graduating with CS degrees often have little to no knowledge of how their OS’s work.

    [–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    My wife was thinking I was hacking while I was troubleshooting my VPS. She is way more educated than I am. She loves watching CSI, so that's probably why she thought that.

    [–] autoexec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 day ago

    Happened to a friend. His teacher had problems with the class room pc and he knew a quick cmd line fix so he asked if he could help. Teacher started screaming that he was hacking the pc, took him to the principal and called his parents.

    Fortunally everyone could see how stupid it was, and he promised his parents to not offer his help again...

    [–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

    Its entirely possible. You have no idea how ignorant people are if you don't think its plausible.

    [–] someguy3@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    People are dumb. I used dark mode on my laptop and people thought I was doing some serious shit.

    It's true, I was the shell command