The tech industry spent twenty years turning users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded.
New post: The Slow Death of the Power User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
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@fireborn while I'm inclined to agree with these points, I do believe that the absolute number of people who do understand and tinker on fact has gone up slightly over the years; infrastructure, code, and documentation have vastly improved. Looking back 25 years, setting up Linux was hard. Today, much less so because a lot of people have spent a lot of time investing into those.
Big tech has added to the group of "incompetent technology users", but not cannibalized from the power users IMHO
aaron
The Incredible Laser