It honestly blows my mind how poor general tech literacy has become.
Not like “can use a smartphone / apps etc.” but like… core understanding of how things work?
So I’m in discords for things like rom hacks, console mods and the like
And holy fuck some of the questions people ask make me question my sanity
“Can I use [thing] from some completely unrelated game and have it work on this one?”
Or wondering why a file won’t run and they haven’t unzipped it
@ the devs to ask how to unzip a fucking file
I worry
Not to “back in my day”
But back in my day I needed to use hex or assembler or jsons or ftp servers or learn to fuckin solder in order to do mods
Nowadays it’s literally drag and drop and somehow folks seem to have the worst fucking luck with even that
imo if you have very limited understanding of how to do things like this
Why the fuck are you in a server for beta testing the thing
I think most of this is just that it takes less & less technical knowledge to make a computer do something useful like connect to the internet and download a chat client as the whole "everyone owns a computer" idea develops, and a lot of people don't really care about computers just the thing it can do for them, so you end up with a bunch of people with very little knowledge who stick to the tools they're familiar with (@ing you on discord to get free videogames)
like speaking as someone who's this way about cars, I am forced to know things about cars against my will because there's no other way for me to do certain things, so every time it breaks I have to go ask people wtf is wrong with it, is that important, can I fix it or do I need a new one, it's just paint why's it so expensive, these things literally come off an assembly line how can there be a parts shortage, etc
