Me being like "what does it mean to boot from a USB 👁️👄👁️"

Fr though, the account thing is not too far off. When I made my first account (when the Reddit thing happened, it was on lemm.ee) I absolutely didn't understand jack shit and what I was doing. I was very ready to throw in the towel. I didn't understand how to add communities, how to search for communities, anything. I still have problems grasping the whole server thing. (Or what a server is.)

So a lot of times I feel excluded here, or at least like an unallowed invader, or a feral maniac just running around, throwing stuff at a wall and looking for what sticks. But that's ok. I'm happy I'm still here and one day I might even know what a command line is.

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)

from my interactions with people after i told them i switched from chrome, the average person doesn’t know the difference between a web browser and a search engine…

It seems like a lot of people almost delight in their tech illiteracy. And the big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank.

Nah, I'm an idiot XD

I discovered the USB boot by accident and thought my laptop bricked for no reason!

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.

The average person probably couldn't figure it out because they don't care to. If you tell someone "Make a Lemmy account"ntheyll be confused. If you tell someone "Make an account at https://lemmy.world/" they'll figure it out. It's like if you give someone a puzzle but it's boring and they don't care to solve it, they're probably not gonna take the time to solve it.

The reason I am still with .world is because I cant be arsed to figure out how to kove instance or remember hownI set it up.

I can copy command line prompts from forums and chatgpt to my newly linted linux pc...that I dont really use because I cant figure shit out.

When I first read this I thought the title was "tech illiterate" which I thought was a bit rude, but anecdotally true.

Sure we've got healthy linux and programmers communities, but I think most people are just regular degular folx.

Where's the meme of the wojack at the party standing in the corner saying "They don't even know how to boot from USB"