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.
What’s the scale? I’m proposing:
1 - able to turn on the device (not necessarily turn it off)
9 - can train and run own LLM (from scratch, not from an existing model)
10 - knows how to reliably set up a printer10 - knows how to reliably set up a printer
What is this, D&D levels? Let’s keep this fantasy nonsense out of the rating scale!
- Inert object, no ability to move, perceive, or interact with any tech
- Root vegetable, largely unaware of technology
- Nematode or worm, unlikely to use tools much
- Lizard, capable of accidentally pressing buttons
- Blue Jay, might learn to deliberately press a button
- Orangutan, could make and use simple tools
- Human baby, likes to grab things, can use iphone
- American high school student, can use electric toothbrush
- Chess club member, probably knows javascript
- Go club member, probably knows C++
- Kernel hacker
As someone who wrote not only one, but two kernels, can I claim an 11?
kernel
kernel
kernel
11s hate this one simple trick !
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.
Sounds like fun!
Kernal, that’s something to do with popcorn right? I’m definitely a 10
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.
Idk, its actually a common problem according to SteamDeck users on reddit, so like its not just me. Must’ve accidentally messed with a setting.
EDIT: sorry, that was mean and uncalled for, but I’ll leave it here for people to downvote if they want.
trying to fix things… bugged the internal speakers
sounds to me like the problem is located somewhere between the user and the trackpads.
Welcome to linux!
Dependency… magic. Currently I am having to wait for Firefox not loading websites due to a slower DVD drive I am uploading from to cloud in another tab.
Maybe some internal QoS thingy where it thinks the network connection is slow.And recently I had issues with laptop taking a very long time to resume from sleep or turning screen back on due to iio-sensor-proxy, a program responsible for… at least determining physical screen orientation.
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.
They used the sink as a stepstool obviously
Whatever score you give to youself, will be a demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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.
So what you are saying is my estimate of 8/10 is too low, right? Right…?
I laughed way too hard at this
Can confirm: I rate myself a 7/10. I know a lot about a few things and a moderate amount about many more, but there’s always more to learn…
The tech field is so vast, most people can’t even list the industries within tech, let alone being competent in just a small part of it.
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.)
I do all of those, but I cannot build a modern website.
Wait, it’s all JavaScript?
Update: JavaScript just ruined my day again
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.
Yup, getting skills is just worthwhile pain. It’s been hard trying to convince some of the younger tech interested people I know to put in the effort instead of going down the AI route, but I know exactly where that’ll lead them. You don’t get good at this stuff by succeeding, it’s the endless failure.
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.
8/10 maybe more, maybe less. Software developer, don’t really have issues with tech, but put me in front of a quantum computer and I sure as shit would be lost, but fine with consumer products.
Same just about.
Like I know some truely brilliant people. I’m just happy riding the coattails.
Please give references for the scale
Also Richard Stallman – the man who wrote the original Emacs and GCC – has never installed a GNU+Linux distro, and he has no idea/interest in it.
Between 0.4 and 0.6 but the best humans score between 1.2 and 1.8; we are all pretty shit at technology.
If you don’t believe me, ask technical lithography questions to software programmers and economic questions to plumbers.
We are swimming in a sea of technologies and don’t even know how deep the water around us is.
Fuck the technological complexity in a single screw is massive.
Decimal or binary? I’d say a two.
I mean im in IT and it really depends. Everythings a learning curve so things you have figured out usually goes well but since every tech has pretty much unlimited use cases you still can hit roadblocks. For things you have never done it takes time to learn how to do the common uses and then you can expand out to things that require more finesse (ideally, if the boss wants Z you make it do Z even if you never got it to do X)
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”? 👀)
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.
I think it is hard to give an objective rating on this since even extremely skilled individuals (probably half of Lemmy by societal standards) tend to skew their ratings toward the middle. Basically what Dunning-Krueger actually found from their research
That said… I’d rate myself as a 6/10. Maybe I actually know more than that
I am an IT technician, I would say that I am about a 7.
Most of my job deals with psychology.
