Daniel BohrerThe inevitable slow death of the power user in the age of tech capitalism.
Because power users are bad consumers.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
Brick Duck@daniel_bohrer I’m still reading but
“Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers.” …
“Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers.” …
@daniel_bohrer … Isn’t true. I’ve been in IT for 26 years and none of that was “common knowledge” 20 years ago. That’s solidly in the golden age of Windows XP. Working in small business this whole time, and only programmers and admins knew that stuff.