This is a much more fun public conversation than some of the 2025 topics we've endured.
What's curious is many people don't even have the intuition to plug things into the hole they fit in. I assume technical literacy has only gotten worse as usb-c has become more standard and bluetooth more streamlined.
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Its just basic debugging too
"Is it plugged in?"
""Does the wall outlet have electricity?"
"Did you turn it on?"
If no then do nothing and call a John
im learning that many of us are battle tested tech support workers from another life.
I was the first kid with a computer in my neighborhood and was tech support from the age of basically 7.
I remember when I was like 9 years old I figured out how to hook our n64 up to our old ass tv that didn't have a component input but at this very old like y-fram screw in thing because I found an old adapter of that type from some old video camera we had in the garage and my mom thought I was a genius.
We've literally just been plugging things into the things where it fits or matches the color for decades now.
A younger Ryan made a lot of side cash hooking up DVD players and home theater systems he sold at an electronics store after work. People who were wealthy, and very smart in their own domain couldn't come to grips with matching the coloured wires to the correct coloured port. It always amazed me, but I was also happy to get a days wage for a couple hours work. Everyone wins I guess.
Some people would rather spend money than figure something out that they don't understand.
Enterprising young bucks we were. I managed to make a few bills "fixing" computers for people in my grandfather's florida condo. It was a gold mine, once per year Id clear out all the spam shit they had going on and run lowkey virus scans and clear caches, shit like that. People love peeling off 20s for that kind of stuff.
I can relate... with the dummies 😂
This reminds me of another convo, in which memory maps were brought up, and I think it's analogous - the human layer has no mmap to find the stuff they need to know! How much more useful could tech guides be if they were easily findable when you don't know what you need? There's a whole world of techy stuff that's effectively sealed off from discovery by an impenetrable wall of jargon.
Jargon is the highest wall around the garden.
There's a huge fear of "Deleting Everything" that stops normies cold like the proverbial deer in the proverbial headlights.
Damn right! That's why, for a moment in time, the raspberry pi made computer science accessible. If I borked it, its not a serious setback.
How you tried turning it off and back on?
