this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
286 points (99.7% liked)

Technology

71665 readers
3562 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
286
Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer (ico.org.uk)
submitted 4 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
52 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You need to readjust your point of view, friend. It's not a skill issue. It's a "most people don't have the kind of experience necessary to even begin to understand what goes on inside the magic internet box" issue. You're speaking on a completely different level.

  1. The average Joe doesn't possess that capability in the slightest. It's just Joe from Finance. The only time they interact with a computer in any meaningful capacity is at work, where IT fixes their problems.
  2. The average Joe is someone who declares "the wifi is broken" when they forget the password to their online banking portal.
  3. The average Joe will take their kid's stick-drifting Nintendo Switch to the Geek Squad at Best Buy and get upsold a Switch 2 instead of listening to their kid and getting it fixed at the local repair shop next door for $50.

Do you see where I'm going with this?