I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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    It seems like a lot of people almost delight in their tech illiteracy. And the big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank.

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      Caught my teenage cousins bragging about how they can “make a video game without any coding”. It was this shitty iPad app I’d never heard of.

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        We’ve come a long way from re-creating space invaders in mode 7 on a BBC Micro during break times at school.

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      I mean, technically competent people sometimes do too. “Every technology I don’t use is obsolete and insecure” is a badge of honor for some people.