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 I agree in general, but I think you're setting the tech bar too high.
"...connect to a remote server via SSH... explain what DNS is at a conceptual level... tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop... Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers."
Those were never things most people learned. They clicked the AOL button. Now they use iOS.
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