Post #2326830

2026-05-03 02:31 UTC

It’s always been that way. Even most people who used the internet “way back when” have no clue how it actually functions. Terms like DNS and IPv4 are vaguely familiar concepts at best outside of professional or hobbyist circles. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that either. There’s too much stuff for any one person to know. You learn the stuff that interests you and ignore the rest, which hopefully means somebody is interested in all of it. That’s why it’s good that there’s all different kinds of people out there.

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@mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-03 04:09

Yup. It’s the old “you don’t need to be a baker to enjoy eating bread” thing. The tricky part is that technology has been shoehorned into basically every aspect of life, so there are comparatively a lot of people who don’t know how to “bake” it. If someone doesn’t like bread, they simply won’t eat it. But that’s not really possible with modern technology, outside of near complete rejection of modernity like the Amish.

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@RecursiveParadox@piefed.social 2026-05-03 10:29

Early Gen X here. I think there is something about having _at some point_ to figure things out for yourself. Even if you don't need to do that anymore, you have experienced the process of finding out for yourself (e.g., configuring TCP/IP the first time). I think there is value in experiencing the process at least a little bit.

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