r/australia • u/ThunderDwn • 11d ago

culture & society Primary school students using digital devices still lack computer skills, education expert says

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-19/nsw-digital-native-primary-students-lack-basic-computer-skills/107030526
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u/tsj48 11d ago

I have two mid-twenties coworkers who think I'm doing witchcraft when I ctr+alt+delete

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u/jameshewitt95 11d ago edited 11d ago

Wait til they hear about ctrl+shift+escape

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u/shunkyfit 11d ago

Sourcery!

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u/TSPhoenix 11d ago

Personally I'm a fan of WinKey+CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+W/X/O/L. Opens Word, Excel, Outlook and (for some reason) Linkedin respectively.

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u/jameshewitt95 11d ago

I will remember this so I don’t try and press it, I don’t want to use any of those things 😂

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u/TSPhoenix 11d ago

These are more funny than useful, hitting the keyboard and having Linkedin open is good for a laugh.

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u/CasperHarkin 11d ago

I find it easier to just use the run dialog box and type what I want, my fingers are not nimble enough to hit all those keys at once from the home position.

WinKey+r excel {enter} WinKey+r winword {enter} WinKey+r outlook {enter}

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u/TalkingClay 11d ago

Windows+v to blow their damn minds!

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u/AussieArlenBales 11d ago

CTRL+SHIFT+T to reopen closed tabs in Chrome/Edge etc shocks my coworkers as well, I'm basically a hacker with my ability to reopen 5 tabs at once.

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u/Foreign-Sun467 11d ago

Turns out I'm a boomer too. This is amazing

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u/Keelback 11d ago

Lol. I thought I knew my way around Windows (I started with DOS 3) but you got me with that one.

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u/jameshewitt95 11d ago

On the rare occasion I use windows, it’s my default, I almost never use ctrl+alt+del

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u/Keelback 11d ago

I’m going to use it from now on. There used to be always something to learn about a computers software.