On a scale of 0 to 10, how good are you at technology?
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Entirely dependent on the field of technology. On average, like a 6 or 7? But i do regularly find myself to be a dumbass who doesn't know shit about fuck.
If my brain worked on command that'd probably bump me up to an 8 or 9 though.
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I think the opposite—seems like many of you on Lemmy don’t realize how bad the general population is with technology and are selling yourselves short. Even knowing what linux is puts you at a 6/10 imo, especially when compared to most folks (half of whom don’t know how gmail works).
Like the fact that we’re on Lemmy—a site that most americans probably couldn’t access if they tried—shows we’re all at least a 5/10 on the technology scale.
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First one sounds like a RAM issue, or maybe bandwidth. Uploading directly from a disc sounds incredibly resource hungry.
Neither. Network-wise everything would work, but other Firefox tabs. Especially when I tried uploading multiple files at once, which caused too much seeking.
I was still able to stream from VLC, while the same stream would time out in Firefox.Anyway, I just had to reboot due to a certain runaway situation. Something happened with UDF-fs that caused 100% CPU through excessive logging.
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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.
If you blindly run commands without thinking, you're gonna have a bad time in Linux.
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended, but if you start going outside the box on things, you can definitely break stuff. Nintendo switch would have the same problems if they let you touch the knobs that valve does with SteamOS
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how the fuck do you "bug" the internal speakers while attempting to pirate a game? that's like saying you broke the sink while trying to change a light bulb.
They used the sink as a stepstool obviously
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Only if you make something like TempleOS.
I'm not that crazy. I built a fully working preemptive multitasking OS for my C64 (although it was a heavily modified machine), and another one for a customer that used eight processors communicating over SCSI.
I created a patch for Linux 0.97 (+-, at least somewhere below 1.0), too.
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There is not one single technology to be good or bad at. You can be an Android development ace, a Windows gamer and a Linux user all at the same time, and naturally you will struggle if you switch to Windows dev and Linux gamer.
Being tech savy really just means that you know and recognize tons of patterns that pop up everywhere (e.g. drag-n-drop, config files in certain places with overrides in other places etc.)
wrote last edited by [email protected]I do all of those, but I cannot build a modern website.
Wait, it's all JavaScript?
Update: JavaScript just ruined my day again
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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.
I think I'm 6/10. I'd consider myself an advanced user. I'm capable enough to avoid casual problems, and instead create real serious problems.
I am skilled enough to understand that I don't know shit.
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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.
About a 7.
Been using Linux for years, have a fairly wide variety of knowledge to pull from, but I'm still not that great or anything.
It definitely feels like progress slows as we get better.
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What's a 10?
Terry Davis.
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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.
Are we rating ourselves against the general population? I'm an easy 9 if not 10/10.
Against people working in IT, or skilled enthusiasts? I've really slipped, maybe a 4 or 5 at best.
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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.
Depends on if I care of not.
Phone: 3/10. I don't really care other than googling "how to turn off annoying feature".
Writing Software: 7/10. It's not beautiful, but it does one thing reasonably well and I finished it in an afternoon. Just don't ask me to write a GUI.
Writing Software for industrial machinery: I've done it for a living for more than a decade. Still rather skip the GUI part.
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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.
Maybe 7.75? I've soldered internals, setup computer networks, built computers, do websites/graphics/videos/3D modeling/music. A little of everything.
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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.
I'd say probably about a 7. I'm good enough with technology to have been using Linux for the past few years without any major issue that wasn't caused by the distro I was using. I still wouldn't say that I'm great with it though, because there are still several things I don't know how to do and there are probably also a bunch of things that would be useful for me to know but I just haven't found them yet or even know that I need them in the first place.
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If you blindly run commands without thinking, you're gonna have a bad time in Linux.
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended, but if you start going outside the box on things, you can definitely break stuff. Nintendo switch would have the same problems if they let you touch the knobs that valve does with SteamOS
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended
(Isn't causally violating copyright regulations "as intended"?
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So, not sure what details I may be missing, but my experience putting any non-steam game onto a steam deck is just transferring over the game folder and linking the executable in steam. No idea how one could mess up any other part of the system with that.
Yea I managed to run a GOG version of Stardew Valley just fine, but crack games like RE4 doesnt work.
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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.
Somewhere between 7 and 8, if 8 is knowing how to program in programming languages. I don't, but I can script pretty well and I am very techy.
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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.
Linux piracy can honestly be a pain in the ass. I wouldn't beat yourself up too much over it if it wasn't working properly.
There's someone called "johncena" then some numbers who supposedly uploads some kind of Linux-ready release of games.
I'm a Linux pirate so I've been going through the trials and tribulations to get games to work. For the best results, I typical need to install the game in a Windows VM then copy it over to my main OS. It's a hassle and takes up a lot of storage in the process, but it's nice when it works.
It sucks when it doesn't work and can feel like a waste of time. That's something I've just gotten used to with computers.
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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.
5?
I’ve installed custom ROMs on Android when I used Android. I have a hacked 3DS, PSP, Vita. I have a PiHole, and a little Pi server. I use windows for my games, I’ve built maybe seven machines for myself, my partner, and friends. I know very little Linux, but a little. I use an iPhone now, for as long as I can remember, because I don’t wanna have to fuck around with my phone, but I don’t touch Google anymore. I’m heavy into private trackers, but those seems so easy now. I think a solid five is where I’m at.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]9.9/10
If I'm not interested then you can get 5/10 advice for free just to be polite.
Skill is not knowledge, it's the ability and hardheadedness to acquire knowledge kicking and screaming to make the world bend to your will so that the printer will actually print.
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