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.
8/10.
Software engineer. Respected across a small public tech company. Most folks who do 30 seconds of GitHub snooping are impressed. There’s a decent chance you’ve used code I wrote. Hopefully it keeps working.
No idea how to use Windows. Or mac. Lots of missing network and security stuff. Struggle every time I have to do python package management. Terrified of C++.
to be fair it’s hard to be good at using windows when Microsoft’s own documentation is often incorrect
1 out of 10
Retired I.T.
Told my family that if they ask me to help with an I.T. related issue, I’ll bring my hammer.
Fuck printers.
9.5; I worked on machine learning starting in 2016 and lead teams working on new cryptography. That being said, I’ve met tons of people wayyyy more skilled/“good” than I am. But if we are comparing to the general public, at least a 9.5
The general public and using technology is like comparing speaking with a dog.
Yes they sort of understand but let’s be honest: Not really.
Probably around 4-6. I know the basics and can do a few other things after using resources from Google/YouTube, but there’s times where I stare at a problem and feel like I became my parents who can’t figure out how to make a window take up the whole screen.
I am good at technology even when I don’t do anything.
There’s a client who says that if I just join a call and do nothing but say hello, things that weren’t working just suddenly start working for no apparent reason.
The engineer’s dilemma. It is broken until I show up, then it starts working again until I leave.
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.
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 !
Does a university assignment in assembly count?
If your list of different assembly languages you know exceeds mine…
I’m from the generation who could read 6510 code from hexdumps.
Nah, I could just barely code in the “baby’s first assembly”
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
3/10 too.
Linux IS hard to use, especially when you try to do something you never can on Windows.
I spent this morning trying to fix the WiFi driver on my laptop and ended up using USB-LAN adapter.
Also, I tried to run Ente Photos on Coolify on said laptop and I couldn’t. Luckily there was a preset for immich so I used it instead.
Linux is hard. Computer is hard and it should be.
Computer is hard and it should be.
Too fucking hard, that’s why a lot of people prefer phones (and tablets)
I mean, its very difficult to even brick a phone OS, but delete a wrong file on a computer and, its reinstall time, meanwhile phones can just delete data and start over, its nearly impossible to delete the OS.
Phones are easy to use, but difficult to tweak.
Difficulty depends on what you’re trying to do with it. You can’t install a pirated Windows game and run it on Android right?
Hmm… Well… Let’s see about all the things I can do:
- I can pirate on Linux, Windows, and Macintosh. I don’t consider it difficult.
- I can install an operating on various mediums, and used to carry a Linux OS (forgot which distro) on a thumb drive with all my stuff on it to use on library computers (used to be poor and homeless. This is how I practiced Blender3D).
- I have built my own PC, and built PCs for a lot of my friends and family.
- I know how to bypass admin security on Windows XP.
- I have and still do mod games, even ones without easy modding support. I do this on Linux.
- I troubleshoot and fix my own problems, should I run into any. This included opening up hardware.
- I’m currently in the process of learning coding for the creation of games in Godot.
All of this and I feel like I’ve only scratched the surface of technology. So in consideration of the skill that exists with tech, the the 10-scale being used, I’d say my skill in tech is:
2 out of 10.
7/10
3/10
I set up a jellyfin server but when I attempted a raw arch install I wanted to put a gun in my mouth.
I literally have a tech job and tell the people I don’t like tech. It’s a means to an end.
Can’t even attempt terminal beyond downloads and updates. Tried a cli and quickly realized I need a gui. I am not a robot.
Tried a cli and quickly realized I need a gui
I felt this
In case you didn’t figure it out (I don’t have a Deck, but Linux Desktop), exit Big Picture mode, install Heroic Launcher, click “add new game”, (optional: type in the name and set the image if you want), select that it’s a Windows version, (optional: select a specific Proton version in the dropdown), select the executable you downloaded, and you’re done.
If the download was an installer instead, do the same steps except before you select the executable click “run executable” or whatever it says first and run the imstaller, then select the executable that the installer creates (it’ll be in the prefix for the game, which should open when you click “select executable.”)
I mean I think its the crack being intended for windows. Non RE4 cracked games do works, its just RE4’s crack is not working in linux.
Ah, OK. I haven’t tried that one. Possibly? I haven’t had an issue with any of them, but there’s always a chance it just doesn’t work through WINE.
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
I’m a B.
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.
