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It'll depend on their hobbies. PC gamers will know this stuff, or at least how to figure it out.
Born in 89'. I've always hated PDF's. Hey, do you want to enlarge your file for sharing? NO!
But you can make it so only people with money can edit it? NO!
Well we'll let other people sign it for free, you just have to sit all of them down and teach them how to create a signature.
No, not that signature, that doesn't count legally. We need you to buy a security certificate and link it to it.
Can't I just create the cert on my computer?
Well yeah, but no one will accept it.
Fuck off me!
PDFs are perfect for the one thing they were designed for, which is publishing high quality proofs for printing. They aren't supposed to be editable. People just use them where they shouldn't.
How to sign a PDF.
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Print the PDF onto paper.
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Sign the paper version.
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Scan the paper to a PDF.
Yeah, I know it's stupid but I did it 4 times this week for vendors. I do save some paper by getting a double sided scanner.
Internally all of my business activities use electronic signatures not in pdf's.
Yeah, I hate "digital signatures" in PDFs. Oh, you wrote your name, scanned it to a jpeg and pasted it onto the (supposedly) uneditable PDF that I sent you, potentially rendering the document invalid? Thanks.
My work its super quick to e-sign because they have everything set up already. at home fuck that I don't sign enough documents that I would ever save time setting it up.
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Yeah... we really need to quit making proprietary formats into industry standards.
I always thought it made it look more legitimate and professional. Now I work with (somewhat) protected files, they're all just word documents haha.
Nah, I've got a zoomer relative that has learned helplessness around computers. They have their own computer for gaming and need me to hold their hand through everything. I tell them to web search, they say they don't understand what anything means, so I have to hold their hand through web searching to fix their problem. If something doesn't work from steam when they double click it, they can't figure it out. They get an error message at any point and their only solution is to bug someone else about it. I refuse to solve their problem without telling them to web search it, that is how you are supposed to learn. It's super annoying so I started telling them "idk, google it." They still bug others instead now.
I also have a zoomer friend older than my relative that is also a PC gamer, they are slightly better but still need people to guide them through screen share.
Fair enough, but if they can navigate a gui that's good enough for most workplaces.
PC gamer no longer means tech savvy. My zoomer stepson is a hardcore gamer but can't figure out shit when something's wrong with his computer, and does not understand basic concepts regarding hardware, operating systems, networking, ... and he doesn't seem to care about any of it either.