I used to think I was a 5/10, but then I tried to pirate a game on SteamDeck and I felt like I lost a lot of braincells. Spend like 6 hours trying to fix things and I accidentally bugged the internal speakers.
I think I’m at 3/10, linux (SteamOS) is so fucking hard to use.
I might be the most technologically illiterate Lemmy user ever.
The number of computer scientists I’ve known that couldn’t set up a VPN, or alter a firewall rule, or change the layout on a web page slightly, or set their out of office replies…
Basically the experience I’ve had is that those people you imagine are gods of tech are frequently terrible at tech beyond their very narrow niche.
But boomers, yeah. Even my mom who was a programmer and mostly stayed current on tech. But when Facebook stopped using a chronological news feed, she couldn’t handle it.
I have an English Master’s and my wife has a PhD in Comp Sci. Guess who sets up all the techie stuff. That’ll be meeeee.
PS fuck Facebook’s feed. I found out about a friend’s death 2 weeks after she died (her parents couldn’t get at her address book so they posted with her account on Facebook instead). I had to tell her other friends because NOBODY had seen the post.