Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

On 6/24/25 4:38 PM, Rich wrote:

c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

On 6/24/25 12:52 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-06-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:47:40 -0000 (UTC), pH wrote:
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...I tend to think command-liney since I'm a CP/M fan at heart....but
Linux is okay, too, don't get me wrong.

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Unfortunately Linux doesn’t have those drive letters that CP/M fans know
and love.
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MS-DOS copied them, though, and Windows still uses them to this day. You
might be more at home over there.

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What's so great about drive letters?  /mnt/driveF works well...

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   Um ... NO.
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   Long long office experience here. The rank and
   file can RELATE to drive letters, but NOT anything
   more abstract.

 The rank and file might have been able to relate, a little, back when
their machine had a floppy disk, and it was A: that one used to access
the disk.  And only then to the extent that "to use this floppy disk
here, insert it into this slot labeled A:".
 But much of the rank and file do not even know where their files are
stored (they don't understand nested directories, and have no idea of
"the path to the file".  Which is why you find many with every file in
"documents" (one level, no subdirectories) or every file on "desktop"
(because then they get a big icon that they can remember is "near the
top right corner".

   Trust me, they do NOT understand ANYTHING about
   storage or devices anymore. Bank you head against
   it all you want - you will see NO success.
   It HAS to be absolutely SIMPLE, mnenomic, or the
   rank and file WON'T GET IT.
   Where I was there was the 'P-drive' - finance, or
   the 'N-drive' - spreadsheets and documents. HAD to
   set it up that way or there'd be a DISASTER. The
   staff weren't stupid - just 'average' - non-tech.
   Super-easy, super-obvious, or NOTHING.
   Think 192.168.1.1//dev/sda3' makes ANY sense to
   the rank and file ??? NO !!!
   In short, it's NOT ALL ABOUT US.
   OUR job is to make it comprehensible, usable,
   for the masses no matter how many tricks are
   required. 'They' will not, can not, keep up
   with the current tech scheme - yet they MUST
   have easy access/use/understanding.
   Differ ? Well then you're OUT OF BUSINESS,
   no more paychecks. Maybe you can find a
   single-wide with four illegal roomies and
   lots of roaches to live in. GET it ???