I grew up in a time and an environment where I felt everyone taught and everyone shared.
It feels like more and more everything is made harder despite everything really being more accessible than before - if you only know.
I firmly believe that "appliance" computers like Macbooks, Chromebooks, game consoles, and smartphones are the future and ultimate destination of personal computing. Much as I hate to say it: Fucking nobody cares about being a power user, about messing with their computer. For the commons, a computer is merely just another appliance and tool to serve and enable bigger interests, a means to an end.
We should also remember that, eventually, the time will come when we become the technologically illiterate luddites, unable to "get" the new fangled tech that the youngsters will immediately master as they point and laugh at our seeming ineptitude.
No, people care only to have somebody that cares around, so that they can solve their issues. Do you think people with macbooks etc never encounter issues with software/hardware and all just work automatically always without having to care about anything? This is an illusion, and in the end of the day you (or someone) has to put the extra work.
It is similar to what happened to electronic and other devices through the years, everything becomes more user friendly but also more complex and opaque the same time, so younger generations were getting more and more clueless how these devices worked. I do not know how things will go now, but I see the same trend as computers, I do not see the older generation becoming technologically illiterate luddites (ok I do mot use tik tok so maybe that makes me one) as much as I see that the the big part of the younger generations not knowing much more than touching stuff on a screen. I do not see that the proportion of more technically adept people increased at all. But yeah, maybe there is some new neurotechnology thing or whatever at some point that changes things, but not something I see with present tech.
This is will not happen. Every other tech fellow I speak to (working in SAP-/Oracle/google/type Giant to a startup) tells me that I just do it as I need $$$. Done. As long as they can afford/get the appropriate help. They dont care about average joe that knows only bestbuy or google photos.
> Do you think people with macbooks etc never encounter issues with software/hardware and all just work automatically always without having to care about anything? Thi
The advantage is that with macbooks/chromebooks/windows (even ubuntu to some level) is that you can google and get some info. Worst case I have seen customers in Apple Store - with a old (i.e) 2 year old macs - asking the Genius to please copy everything to their new device.
With Raspberry or WD - one cant do it. (Sure there are some Linux User Groups where an old fart will do it for a beer but most people dont know this)..
It is a difficult challenge, ideally: one gets some kind of govt authorisation for a FAAANG-account - and it will get backup up with FAANG for some $/month. And one can produce some govt ID to restore it. Of course it has other issues - but for average Joe whose privacy is already lost - they would be too happy to just to get their wedding/holiday pics back.
I have had the fortunate pleasure of interacting with many genuinely intelligent, skilled, wise people, but it wouldn't surprise me if those same people couldn't understand computers or whatever new fangled tech that comes our way. I don't necessarily blame them either, lives are limited and they spent what they have in places they felt were worth it; we can't have everything.