With focused R&D, we can make it 70%!
I’m a homelabber. If you want notes or a flow chart let me know.
This hits me right in the DIY NAS.
I’ve gotten to a tight, taut 82% by trying to make all the mods I cram into video games not shit themselves all over my PC
I thought the title said “We are wasting up to 20% of our time on computers.”
My immediate thought was “That seems way too low…”
How about everyone who has zero skills with these problems, do they count is 0% spent on them as they outsource it or do they count as 100% since the smallest problem incapacitates their computer usage?
It’s not a waste if I’m getting paid to do it full time
I wish I could do that
Sounds more like a lot of people could do with some basic computer skills training.
I recognise the waste in waiting time, but I also think we are still increasing productivity more than enough to make up for it.
Personally I solve it by multitasking harder. Whenever there is a waiting time for a download or other stuff I simply start doing something else. I’m not going to waste my life watching loading bars for a living.
I don’t think increasing user-friendlyness is a good solution. It’s pretty much what caused the issues to begin with. Every time Windows or the apps make something more user-friendly it always results in more buttons to click and more updates to keep up.
I also spend an unreasonable amount of time just rearranging the windows in comparison to back when apps had keyboard-only GUIs with functions layered in different pages or tabs. I obviously don’t think that is a good solution today either, but it goes to show that the bloated operating system has a lot of the blame.
Say you want to do something simple like renaming a file, you’ll need to open an app to show the folders and files and also 100 different functions that are of no use for the specific task, position and scroll it where it’s visible, navigate by mouse or keyboard and then do whatever you wanted. My point is that just operating the operation system is something that requires 10s of seconds over and over again every day. There’s a long way from thought to execution for the simplest task.
The good thing is that it enables a lot of people to do so without any training at all, so maybe that makes up for it in total.
Using the word “we” loosely.
How much time do we waste on car problems? Neighbor problems? Political problems? Grocery problems?
Also in the context of working, this isn’t just computers. It’s tools in general, and a computer is a type of tool. Problems with your saw? Problems with your batteries? Problems with access to electricity and your extension cords not being long enough? Problem with losing your 10mm sockets? If you’re a trucker or driver the problem could be your vehicle. Etc etc etc.
This article is stupid. Tools break, they always have and always will. The tools we have now are better than they have ever been. They will probably keep getting more and more efficient, but they will still break. Because tools break.
Right and how much time do we save by having computers? Fixing the problems is just the cost of doing business
Not much.
How much time do we waste on first-past-the-post problems?
Yeah, this seems like a pretty dumb conclusion. I expect that as far back as you look, people always took advantage of tools that save them time. But then they always also spent a fair amount of that time (that they could have been working), just maintaining/fixing/making their tools. I think the truth is that computers are very useful tools, but the maintenance and troubleshooting can be quite time consuming.
I will continue using computers though.
Using computers and also having to deal with their problems is still far more betterer than not using computers at all.
Yeah, I know. What of it?
I think we’re all just chasing our tails sometimes
Those are rookie numbers. Install Linux and pump those numbers up.
You don’t know what you’re talking about
We are wasting up to 20% of our time with bronze problems.
– Some grumpy dude circa 3300 BCThis. We used to waste time repairing the mechanical things when we could have been planting, or wasting time dealing with plant blights and livestock woes when we could have been hunting for wild game.
Some people still do. Fuck Jhon Deere.
Must be the crappy copper from Ea-nāṣir
“Up to 20%” is meaningless for a headline and is pure click bait. It could be any number between 0% and 20%. Or put another way, any number from no time at all to a horrifying more than an entire day per week.
Why not just state the average from what is probably a statistically irrelevant study and move on?
53% of my time is spent looking for CASE statements without an END. This is 99% human error - does that count?
Just stop having computer problems
