aaronFeb 24

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/

#technology #opensource #linux #poweruser #techliteracy #foss

The Slow Death of the Power User — fireborn

Show threadLightFeb 24
@fireborn
I would care about power users more if they were less elitist and rude.
Show threadaaronFeb 25
@light Ironically there would be less elitism and rudeness if there were more power users.
Show threadLightFeb 25
@fireborn
If the world was mostly power users then maybe, yeah.
Show threadLight
@fireborn And btw, I probably don't mean you or anyone on this side of fedi.
I mean people who explicitly say that if someone doesn't know what they know, they are inferior.
The type I'm thinking of uses words like "tech plebs", "normies", "normalcattle", variations involving the n-word, "skill issue", etc.
Feb 25 at 12:43pmWeb