Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Tech literacy is following step by step instructions & having an IQ above room temperature? OK.

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• iridebikes@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The average person can’t even download the right authenticator app when prompted. The average person can’t type their password the same way two times in a password change field. The average person does not know how to plug monitors and peripherals into a docking station.

  Whatever you think the average skill level is? It’s lower than that. By a lot.

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  • Sprungles@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    You are absolutely right. I completely forgot how dumb people are. Thank you for the reminder. Time to make my distro install itself without buttons and ready their mind to make a user.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I work electronics in walmart and you would be shocked at the questions I get on things like laptops from collage age kids. A very frequent one is ‘if it isn’t touchscreen then how do you work it’. One of my favorite ever was a girl who went down the line asking can you type on them because i need to be able to type. Every time I told her you can type on all laptops but she just kept asking.

    I know a huge part of it is some kind of ‘location bias’ because the kids who know something about computers are shopping online or at microcenter or something.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We’re also two generations into those trained to use tablets and phones over all. Locked down, locked out, one USB port and that’s for charging

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  • rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    About the app thing. The other day I had to download from the Google play store. The app you search for is NEVER the first app in the resulting list. The first slot is always sponsor slot. I consider myself quite tech literate and I have accidentally installed that sponsored app because I searched for an app (with very specific search terms) and without thought selected the first. Google is one step away from that trope of the moving X button to close the ad. It’s infuriating. Now imagine a tech illiterate trying to get an app.

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    • iridebikes@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I completely agree. This is infuriating. I have to tell people to NOT download the first one because Google allows the first result to be a fakeware ad. I’ve stopped many people from getting the wrong app.

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• carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The average person is becoming MORE technologically illiterate, not less. The era of growing up with a home computer that required fiddling and dial up, etc is over. People grow up with phones and iPads and kids come to school not knowing how to use a mouse.

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  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And for that reason alone I built a Linux PC for my 11 year old and told him to go to town figuring things out. (I supervise everything of course). Dude has been doing fantastic so far.

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If he doesn’t solve problems with chmod 777 then he’s already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company

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    • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Cool. I’m old enough that in middle school I begged my Mom to take to the mall to buy Linux. I got Red Hat Linux from a store called Babbage’s.

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  • NikolaTeslasPigeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I grew up starting my computer use having to navigate DOS just before windows 3.11 was released. I work in tech today and I feel like just knowing about a lot of the automated things we take for granted today has given me a little bit of an edge.

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    • griff@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I had to walk to school in the snow ten miles, both ways uphill!

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      In DOS time I learned how to type quickle because I had to type in cd games cd keen keen as quickly as possible to minimise non-gaming time.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I feel the same about things like irq. Useless but I feel knowing how they worked makes you closer to the hardware.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hate to say it, but that technical literacy from having to operate computers the difficult way was a small blip in history. So things are just kind of going back to “normal.”

    The only real natural entry into “computing” is gaming. Pretty much everything else has to come through formal education, which is largely myopic and boring.

    Don’t think I’ve even worked with a gen Z engineer yet. I assume they exist.

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    • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have worked with a few gen z interns/fresh grads, and some younger millennials (I am a 1990 kid) and its interesting… Some of them have been very successful at passing the tests but have no mechanical aptitude at all. Some have been technically literate on first glance, then proven to be just confidently incorrect. In general though, it seems they just didn’t grow up being interested in how things worked like I did. It could be isolated to my small sample size or it could be a general trend. They also don’t seem to make connections scross disciplines as easily either but again, that could just be a time in service thing at this point and not a generational trait.

      I have not been super impressed with the new ones we get when we get them, some of them have been quick learners though and have impressed me with their adaptability. I am a huge proponent of proper mentorships or rotational programs and that is something that seems to get overlooked with younger grads in my experience.

      One thing that really annoys me though, is that when prompted with something they don’t know, they will spit out some randome bullshit rather than say they don’t know. Saying I don’t know is a completly acceptable answer as long as it is followed up with “but I will find out” or “can you help/explain it”. Falling back to a first principle approach and talking through it is also valid but just making up some shit doesnt fly with me.

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    • cole@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I work with a lot of gen z engineers that are very competent

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    • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Back to what, exactly? At what point in the past was it easier to use a computer than it was in the late 90s? Unless you’re talking about before computers, which doesn’t really have any bearing on what’s being discussed.

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    • freebee@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s still a second natural entry, it is being critical and annoyed by corporate greed in apps, streaming services, ads, accounts for everything etc. The privacy/piracy entry.

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They exist. They are capable of being smart and curious, but they’re less inherently familiar with the “bleep bloops” as we are.

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  • cryptTurtle@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So a friend of mine went to a convention to show off his gaming project. The kids there were trying to touch the monitors to play the game. They didn't grab the keyboard and mouse. They didn't touch the controller. They touched the monitor. People's framework of what a computer is and what it's made of is completely different than what it use to be

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    • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Reminds me of my senior teaching days 15 years ago. Solitaire, same.exe and saddam.exe and whack.exe soon had those oldies clicking, double clicking and dragging.

      Didn't think then that the situation could reverse.

      Same still exists on Android and is still a brain twister.

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      https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kubilayerdogan.samegamel

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You are absolutely right, but let’s be clear here… it’s not so much the lack of keyboard and mouse that’s the problem… it’s that these touchscreen devices don’t let you actually DO anything. The devices you can use a keyboard and mouse on ALLOW you to play, customize, make mistakes, and learn. There’s no reason a touchscreen device couldn’t provide that too, but iOS and Android specifically forbid you from learning anything - that’s a recipe for security holes! And THAT’s the real skill they lack. Real competence means bending the endless possibilities to your will - not just being given 5 of the most common ones and being locked out of the rest.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The average person is becoming MORE technologically illiterate, not less.

    There’s simply no evidence of this

    What’s more, the prevalence of cheap, accessible technologies is having a host of knock-on effects. Case in point:

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    People grow up with phones and iPads and kids come to school not knowing how to use a mouse.

    Feels like I’m listening to the Boomer complaining about kids today not knowing how to use a manual transmission.

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    • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t say that data is definitive proof. The table is missing ages from 30-under 65 from the table (at least if you’re not logged in, if there is a more complete table please share). Also not sure how good some of the questions are for determining tech literacy. Knowing that Elon Musk ran both Tesla and Twitter in April 2023 is more if you keep up with the news rather than knowing how to work a computer. Other ones are good like being able to identify 2FA or knowing what LLM/AI is capable of.

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    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      My wife is a teacher. Kids come to school without the ability to use keyboard and mouse which was not the case in the 90s. I also only drive manual :P

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Feels like I’m listening to the Boomer complaining about kids today not knowing how to use a manual transmission.

      There have been some articles regarding beginning CS classes bring required to include teaching concepts like folder structures because a sizeable part of class was list on this concept.

      To use your transmission analogy, it would be like truck driving schools now need to how to drive a manual transmission vehicle, which adds to the length of the class. Or all the company vehicles are manual and now the company has to deal with hiring new drivers who don’t know how to drive stick but will say they know how to drive.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      LMFAO, bruh, your categories are 18-29, and 65+.

      Your Source literally entirely skips over the age group we’re talking about. You’re not proving strong literacy skills of any kind atm.

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  • lechekaflan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why there now exists “iPad Kid”.

    That a friend I know of has a lot of his kids entirely on smartphones, while their family PC is hidden behind cobwebs and dust; if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

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    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      if they want a document printed they just go out to some print shop.

      In fairness, it can be expensive to stock the holy water necessary to fend off the demons that inhabit all printers.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly. Exposure to technology does not make you tech literate. Tech literate typically means engaged with new technologies.

    For instance, people were using phones, fax machines, calculators, watches, etc when dial up came out. Those users were not considered tech literate.

    The same happens today, an iPhone or Android user is not tech literate by default anymore.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Imagine studying at uni for years to become a programmer, only to be replaced by a vibe coder with an iPhone.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We all imagine that, is has yet to happen. Vibe coders can produce the spaghetti code of upwards of 10 unpaid interns! What value!

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  • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Wait, does that mean that we millennials are actually going to be remembered for something good ?^*

    We better find a cool name… the golden generation of tech? The tech overlords?

    ^* obviously this isnt my opinion

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And once again, Gen X is completely ignored

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i also notice they fall for the simplest scams too online,

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ehhh maybe true for the US where they had a solid early tech industry and then made some questionable decisions. I feel like in the rest of the world progress is steady but forwards. Generally young stem university students where I live have all done a programming unit and a technology unit and each year more is added to curriculums whereas older generations might not have been given quite such an extensive education.

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    • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thafuq?

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    • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yea, young STEM university students are obviously going to be more technologically literate than their counter parts. That isn’t a new thing and was true for the older generations too.

      What questionable decisions are you talking about that the US made that you’re insinuating set them back compared to the rest of the world? The US does have more tech classes now than when I was in school in the early 2000’s. The problem is a vast majority of these kids coming up don’t know how to use computers effectively. It’s not just “using a mouse” that makes someone tech literate. Knowing how to navigate a mobile device, which is designed for ease of use to accommodate even the dumbest people, does not make someone tech literate. Some are power users, but most have nothing more than a surface level knowledge of how to use it. There’s little to no troubleshooting skills.

      All of those mobile devices are programmed by actual tech literate people that understand coding, the network stack, security, and the general inner workings of how computers work. This generation coming out now doesn’t know any of that because they never use computers.

      And lastly, holy fuck what’s wrong with you? Jesus fucking Christ you just came out shooting in that second half. The person you replied to made a valid, factual point, and you apparently took that as a personal attack. What the fuck do trans people have to do with this? What a fucked up transition to make and shit to take. You need help, dude.

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      One time I said "Hey this TUI program works perfect on every single distribution and even BSDs, takes no performance issues ever, and just overall good program.

      I wanna check contributors on github. It was all either anime or trans flag pfps.

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  • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Soon the era of hosting own VPN and tricking AI will start

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• glitchdx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why would normal people know how to boot from usb? Shit, if you clean the ads out of a windows start menu, a normie will think you’re a wizard for doing the inconceivable.

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  • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my experience is that normal people just accept it when faced with an inconvenience, rather than think about ways to change it.

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    • phantomwise@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      From my experience most people just don’t know that it CAN be changed. They assume that there’s nothing to do about it, or that if there is you need to be a tech wizard to understand how. They know that they don’t understand how their computer/browser/phone/whatever works so they assume that even if there was a way it would be too complicated for them to even try. They don’t care to understand how it works, and that’s fine. I also don’t care how my microwave works as long as it does work when I need it to. There’s not enough time or mental energy to learn everything. But when you show them that all it takes is going to a website, typing “ublock” in the search bar and clicking a big button, then it goes from “probably rocket science” to “hey I could actually do this!”.

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I learnt how to do it because my computer would brick and I’d need to do a fresh install. I had always thought that was a pretty normal skill to have and use until I started talking to my friends about doing it.

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• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  How dare you call me literate my accent is actively fucking me over with swapping As and Os. Also I am tech literate for old broken shit, I actively hate my phone because I can barely use it. Mostly because it spits me at every instance fuck you machine spirit! I don’t want you to give me the news you are an over glorified MP3 player half the time!

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• lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Relevant xkcd: Average familiarity

  You severly overestimate the average persons tech literacy even when you try to correct for it. Booting from USB is already a really advanced topic.

  Though creating a lemmy account is not that complex. Typically all you have to do is fill out a form on the websiten instructions included. The problem there is not the tech literacyn but the willingness of the people to even interact with systems they don’t know, like finding a home instance or understanding the concept of the fediverse. Most people could create a lemmy account, though also most people wouldn’t.

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  • ConstableJelly@midwest.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Though creating a lemmy account is not that complex. Typically all you have to do is fill out a form on the websiten instructions included. The problem there is not the tech literacyn but the willingness of the people to even interact with systems they don’t know, like finding a home instance or understanding the concept of the fediverse. Most people could create a lemmy account, though also most people wouldn’t.

    Spot on, it feels complicated because they don’t understand what’s being asked. I’ve said this before previously, but most people have no concept of frontends and backends. For most people, Twitter is just something that’s on their phone, and it uses the internet to see what other people have in their Twitter apps on their phones.

    Because internet usage and software generally is like 99.999% commercial, even the idea of closed and open source probably doesn’t make sense to a lot of people. “Check out Mastodon, it’s like Twitter but anyone can host it” would mean nothing to the average user. I’m on the absolute lower end of tech literacy in this community, so it’s constantly apparent how much my Lemmy friends overestimate the general population.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Tbh, getting into lemmy is quite a bit more complex than e.g. into Instagram or other centralized social media platforms.

    Compare this:

    • Choose which social media platform to use and land on Instagram
    • Download the instagram app from the default store of your phone’s OS
    • Create an account
    • Done

    with:

    • Choose which social media platform to use and land on Lemmy
    • Choose which app to use. There’s like 20 of them, some great some not so, some active, some abandoned. There’s no guide or anything, so you’ll have to google and/or try 5 of them to find one you like.
    • Choose which instance to use. There are literally hundreds of them and you don’t even know where to start. You have no information, but this choice is central to the kind of lemmy experience you will get.
    • Google and find join-lemmy.org. Now you got a one-liner for each instance together with user count. So naively you sort by activity and land on lemmy.ml.
    • Create an account
    • Figure out what .ml stands for.
    • Repeat step 3-5 because account transfers between instances don’t work.
    • Repeat step 3-5 because you landed on the likes of lemmy.ee or feddit.de, and the instance closed down
    • Done, until your instance closes down

    Slight hyperbole here, but choosing an app and instance alone is complicated enough to scare away lots of people.

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    • Por_que_pine@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hyperbole? Not really. You described my lemmy experience perfectly. However, not having big data sift through my digital feces to find the peanut, makes it worth the effort.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People are lazier than ever now. Thats one reason I dont like the tech illiterate normies. Its SO EASY so learn how to use the tools you interact with 24/7. But they are lazy.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s a comment above this who incredulously exclaims “boot from a USB drive‽” and I can tell you as someone who does tech support, that may be legitimately 1% of the US population.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re trying to boot from legacy boot media.

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does it count if I have to google which key to hold down to enter the boot menu or bios every time? There are 12 function keys and esc.

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  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok booting from USB can’t be that advanced is it? I mean you just plug the thing in then mash F2 on startup, select the USB from the boot menu which is no more complex than browsing a picture folder and hit save and start.

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Hon’ some people don’t know you can align the USB by checking if the holes on the outside are filled or not and have to deal with the unraveling the USB superposition dance.

      Getting a USB in on the first try is considered wizardry by average person. Booting from one? May as well be Zeus with command of electrons like that.

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• pigup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I’m currently trying to usb boot an old Motherboard from 2011 that has a very early version of UEFI. Modern disk imagers do fancy partitions that aren’t recognized by this ancient artifact. Just saying it can be challenging.

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• Matriks404@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Linux is second nature to us geeks, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably knows just Ubuntu or Fedora.

  And Debian GNU/Linux, of course.

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  • Jobe@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wait is this already in reference to the xkcd about experts overestimating the average person’s knowledge about their subject or should I go look for it?

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    • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It absolutely sounds like a reference to the xkcd.

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  • ArrowMax@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Webcomics are second nature to us geeks, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably knows just ADHDinos and Loving Reaper.

    And xkcd, of course.

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    • kerntucky@infosec.pub ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Of course.

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    • Bubbey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unless it’s the worst slop on r/comics like PizzaCake, then it has like 50k upvotes from the lowest common denominator.

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  • Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey, the average person doesn’t even know what Linux is, nor what thermal paste is.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This should be a copypasta.

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  • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am very technical-minded and have been using PC’s since the early 90’s on a pretty deep level, but have no experience or interest in anything linux related so about 30% of Lemmy frontpage posts might as well be Sanskrit.

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  • Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Naturally

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• RedIce25@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Something that amazes me that I often see is tech literate people wastly over estimating the tech literacy of an average person. Any amount of tech support would tell you that most people barley know the basics and doesn’t care for anything else.

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Relevant xkcd:

    xkcd

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It totally is. That’s why I’m here. Depending on the server, you also get a side of non-authoritarianism and strong privacy beliefs.

  About the time they get a list of services to pick for sign up, they lose interest or freeze, exhibiting decision paralysis. That one time they installed ImagineDragns.exe and the computer had to be taken to be cleaned, set them down a path of I don’t know what this is, I won’t touch it that keep us employed.

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes. And everyone thinks they are the smartest human ever because of it. As you can tell by the responses here lol

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  since the front page consists of linux and survillance hate

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• waitaminute@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not me. I am so out of the loop here. But I loved the social aspect of reddit and was on it long enough to know how great it was when it was young. Hoping to find that here.

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• Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think it’s an echo chamber, I think you are wrong about that. The proof is that I am disagreeing with you right now. Therefore, not an echo chamber.

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• ConstantPain@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not my fault. Reddit pushed me here!

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• Bubbey@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I find the echo chamber to be nice when it is semi tech-minded people that aren’t an unending diatribe of reposted wholesome stories/fake chatgpt posts/godawful jokes in the comments that stopped being funny in 2012.

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• CtrlAltDefeat@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anonymity and the general public do not mix. Barrier to entry is all we have left.

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• webpack@ani.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  makes sense, since Linux users (me) are drawn to foss projects like moths to a light

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• McDropout@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am not tech literate but here I am.

  imposter

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• Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For the past month I’ve been developing a NixOS platform for local businesses.

  I keep overestimating how much people know. It’s infuriating trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I don’t need to explain why it’s amazing, just that it is, and it works. I feel like I’m Mugatu talking to Zoolander at times.

  Even if I could perfectly analogise what a declarative operating system is, it wouldn’t matter to a client because they don’t understand how a non NixOS machine works.

  Though, the worst part is trying to explain to someone, who is “happy with Windows” why they should not be.

  How the fuck do people in 2025 not fucking loathe Windows? There’s fucking ads in the start menu. There’s like 4 different places to change settings. The systems bloat and slow to a crawl as the OS ages.

  It’s fucked.

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• CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just don’t understand how it’s more “techy” than Reddit. I just want our user count to keep going up.

  I think we should focus less on hyping federation/decentralization and more on how there are no ads and the content is really coming from actual users (and maybe a leftist bias).

  I got a few friends on here by explaining that choosing a server is no different from choosing an email provider. Everyone understands email, that you can communicate with most other email users no matter what their provider is.

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• TheFinn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This used to be what people said about digg and then about reddit

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• Vrijgezelopkamers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I can’t do any of the stuff you mentioned. I’m here because I hate traditional social media that are not social at all. And I hate ads. And have an interest in community driven stuff and DIY.

  And I don’t feel like I am alone here.

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• PixelatedCleric@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am not tech literate like most programmers or coders, but I can look up things and read. Usually covers most of my needs overall, so it’s better than nothing. Where I work I am seen as on par with any IT person but I just literally read instructions and follow them. Tried to explain it, but they treat it like I was blessed by the tech gods or something.

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• bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  100%. Thats why I like it here hahaha

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• brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, I’m an idiot XD

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use Linux because I’m too tech illiterate for Windows, I needed something that just worked out of the box

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, I’m only partially tech literate. I don’t know how in the fuck to use a terminal or command line stuff.

  But I know what HTTPS is and how to check the header of an email to know if its phishing. I know how to use and manage PGP keys (although I have zero people to communicate with so I end up never using it, in practice).

  Boot from USB is just spamming one of the F1 F2 F11 F12 button repeatedly then select the USB, very easy, learned that in 2 minutes using a web search.

  But don’t ask me to set up a Lemmy Instance, I aint got the brain power for it, I’m likely to mess up setting up the security aspect of it then a hacker is gonna deface it like lemmy.world that time when they got hacked. I actually have zero clue on how to set up self-host stuff. I don’t bother with a NAS, I just copy my photos, videos, movies, wikipedia .zim files via a USB cable directly to a portable SSD (I keep multiple copies of the same files). If I need my files on the go, I just take one of the SSDs and put it in my pocket. No NAS needed.

  (Also NAS are kinda expensive, and you have to buy the drives separately, so the NAS thing is kinda just expensive stuff on top of the storage you already have to pay for, so I don’t bother, I love my portable SSDs)

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• mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When I first read this I thought the title was “tech illiterate” which I thought was a bit rude, but anecdotally true.

  Sure we’ve got healthy linux and programmers communities, but I think most people are just regular degular folx.

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been saying it’s an echo chamber for a while now and it makes me spend less time here.

  I am a software developer so yes on the coding.

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