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by ziddoap 2498 days ago
If you buy a voice recorder to record your voice, you obviously know it is recording your voice.

My parents, bless their hearts, can't even grasp the difference between a browser and an operating system. You're telling me they should just know the intricacies of data processing through... osmosis?

Non-technical people may think that the data is being processed locally, if they even think about the data at all.