The Slow Death of the Power User

There’s a certain kind of person who’s becoming extinct. You’ve probably met one. Maybe you are one. Someone who actually understood the tools they used. Someone who could sit down at an unfamiliar system, poke at it for twenty minutes, and have a working mental model of what it was doing and why. Someone who read error messages instead of dismissing them. Someone who, when something broke, treated it as a puzzle rather than a betrayal.

#poweruser #hacker #brainrot

Full article:

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

🚀 OhMyDebn 3.8.2 is out!

Debonair Debian + Cinnamon desktop just got even better for power users:
• OhMyPCAP → 4.0.0
• Opencode → 1.15.11
• aether → 4.22.0
• cliamp → 1.54.0
• Man pages now beautifully colorized

Stability. Beauty. Power. AI + Containers ready.

Who’s upgrading today?

Drop a 🔥 if you’re running OhMyDebn!

#OhMyDebn #Debian #Linux #Cinnamon #PowerUser

New Blogroll Post

“Embedding user code in your app using Extism” by Thejesh GN

@thej: «Every application I love has some kind of power-user mode where I can add my own code or scripting to make it useful to me. Simple examples are Firefox with its addons or VLC with its plugins.…»

#Technology #Architecture #FreeAndOpenSource #PowerUser #WASM #WebAssembly #blog #indieweb https://thejeshgn.com/2026/05/19/embedding-user-code-in-your-app-using-extism/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

This is long, but excellent, and captures a lot of my thinking exactly - "The Slow Death of the Power User":

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

TL;DR - Big Tech and other interests have successfully turned most people away from understanding their computing devices, and we all suffer as a result. I strongly recommend reading it for anyone who cares about understanding what their systems do, or what to do when they go wrong, or who likes to build things.

It's from a couple of months ago, but I only discovered it when it went by in my feed here a few days ago.

#PowerUser #BigTech #control #WalledGarden

Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User

https://github.com/halfwhey/claudraband

#HackerNews #Claudraband #ClaudeCode #PowerUser #GitHub #Coding

Excellente lecture : "The Slow Death of The Power User"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

On perd de plus en plus la capacité à auditer. Les tutoriels Youtube ne sont pas une documentation.

Je me souviens le nombre d'heures que je passais etant plus jeune à comprendre les entrailles d'un OS Linux ou d'un logiciel specifique sur lequel j'avais la main.

#poweruser #technology #audit

J'ai lu un (long) article en anglais dont le titre est "la mort lente du super-utilisateur". Oui, c'est long et en anglais, et c'est justement pour ça que vous devez prendre le temps de le lire. (À bas la productivité)

Pour résumer, ça parle du lent abandon de la compréhension de ce qu'est un ordinateur (ordiphone compris) et internet et comment ça fait les affaires des google et autres multinationales du même genre qui préfèrent notre attention à notre compréhension.

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

#openSource #technoFascisme #powerUser

"The Slow Death of the Power User"

#Réparation #PowerUser #Obsolescence #Culture #Connaissances ... Sur les outils et usages...

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/