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[oathboundfamiliar@akko.elysium.gay]

intentional tech illiteracy is quickly becoming one of my biggest pet peeves. it does not take computer science courses to understand how DNS works. it does not take computer science courses to understand how to verify a site's identity.

this is a massive part of why I advocate more and more for linux these days. windows and macos both heavily obfuscate everything behind layers of UI and abstraction and they're actively detrimental to people's brains when it comes to computer use.

I've watched college kids struggle to operate powerpoint presentations. I've had to explain to them like they're toddlers why the average professor will not be able to read their .pages format files and will simply not grade their shit. I've had to explain how to format a fucking USB drive.

the state of tech literacy is absolutely dire outside of hobbyist/enthusiast spaces, and it's honestly a really bad fucking sign that people don't know how the machines they operate daily work.

[eeveeeuphoria@social.translunar.academy]

@oathboundFamiliar it's legitimately disheartening how tech illiterate the world is becoming, my mom used to work w/ unix system at her job (not much, but it *was* something), and yet now struggles to comprehend half the problems that happens with her phone and computers.

like, modern-day solutions for computers given by obscenely rich corporations are trying to make sure people are dumb and computer illiterate so they can hope that they just give up and buy [ New Product ] to solve the problem.