Post #2459278
2026-05-10 19:41 UTC
@ret@furry.engineer I think it's also about areas of interest. I'm nerdy about tech, so these random "boxes", cables make me wonder what they're for and how they work. See anything more unusual than a TV or a mobile antenna "ooh, wonder what that's receiving/transmitting". Most people don't. At the same time I care comparatively less about, say, flowers and trees, as pretty as they are. (I guess I take those for granted, I know)
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@creideiki@akkoma.xn--pikabl-0xa.se 2026-05-10 21:10
@forst@mastodon.social @ret@furry.engineer I wonder if there's still a market for "how stuff works" books that give you a basic understanding about technological things you may have seen in the wild. They were everywhere when I was little, but the last good one I've found ("Infrastructure: a guide to the industrial landscape" by Brian Hayes) is from 2005. I would be sad if the only option for a budding nerd today is to sit through 30-minute YouTube videos that still manage to convey less information than two pages of a good book.