linuxmemes

This is a crippling reality.

Whenever I explain anything I am constantly evaluating how in depth any given node must be expanded for my audience.

I imagine the average non-tech person does not even know what "open source" means, let alone able to name anything that is open source.

In my 2022 highschool journalism class we were instructed to take pictures from a professional camera, plug it into laptop, and make slides from the images.

First step was fine for everyone, but later I saw a 17 year old plug the camera to the laptop; and then they tried downloading their picture from google chrome.

No disrespect, I have my dumb moments too, but I genuienly wonder what the logic was sometimes.

I used to think everyone at least knew VLC media player or Firefox, but nope.

Now I first ask which field, if they're CS they know linux, if art, they know blender, if geosciences they know QGIS, anything else is hard

I study proteins and I chatter on about them, but once in a rare while I'll talk to a normal person and they'll say "like, the food group" or in introductions I'll say I'm a structural biologist and some people look at me blankly then say something about "bone structure". It kills me a little inside.

I bring this up at my job all the time. I work as a software tester, and I'm constantly reminding our BA that most customers aren't smart enough to "just know not to do that"