How has nobody posted the geology XKCD yet?

like the early internet the tech gap was a natural filter and i see that as a good thing for the quality of the conversation.

For the past month I've been developing a NixOS platform for local businesses.

I keep overestimating how much people know. It's infuriating trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I don't need to explain why it's amazing, just that it is, and it works. I feel like I'm Mugatu talking to Zoolander at times.

Even if I could perfectly analogise what a declarative operating system is, it wouldn't matter to a client because they don't understand how a non NixOS machine works.

Though, the worst part is trying to explain to someone, who is "happy with Windows" why they should not be.

How the fuck do people in 2025 not fucking loathe Windows? There's fucking ads in the start menu. There's like 4 different places to change settings. The systems bloat and slow to a crawl as the OS ages.

It's fucked.

Nah, I'm only partially tech literate. I don't know how in the fuck to use a terminal or command line stuff.

But I know what HTTPS is and how to check the header of an email to know if its phishing. I know how to use and manage PGP keys (although I have zero people to communicate with so I end up never using it, in practice).

Boot from USB is just spamming one of the F1 F2 F11 F12 button repeatedly then select the USB, very easy, learned that in 2 minutes using a web search.

But don't ask me to set up a Lemmy Instance, I aint got the brain power for it, I'm likely to mess up setting up the security aspect of it then a hacker is gonna deface it like lemmy.world that time when they got hacked. I actually have zero clue on how to set up self-host stuff. I don't bother with a NAS, I just copy my photos, videos, movies, wikipedia .zim files via a USB cable directly to a portable SSD (I keep multiple copies of the same files). If I need my files on the go, I just take one of the SSDs and put it in my pocket. No NAS needed.

(Also NAS are kinda expensive, and you have to buy the drives separately, so the NAS thing is kinda just expensive stuff on top of the storage you already have to pay for, so I don't bother, I love my portable SSDs)

I use Linux because I’m too tech illiterate for Windows, I needed something that just worked out of the box

The comment section here is proof of the echo chamber part…

Do you think creating a Lemmy account is that much harder then creating a reddit account (or any other website account)?

Yes. And everyone thinks they are the smartest human ever because of it. As you can tell by the responses here lol

I don't think it's an echo chamber, I think you are wrong about that. The proof is that I am disagreeing with you right now. Therefore, not an echo chamber.