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[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos.

Has there ever been a time when computer geeks weren't consider a weird group of outsiders?

BTW, I was raised on MS-DOS and it didn't help my computer literacy one bit (heheh). I still can barely navigate my computer in the CLI, much less build anything or do anything cool from some internalized "mental model" of how a computer works. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of toddlers running around with Arduinos and doing all manners of mind blowing shit.