> To what end? Pleasing a few nerds?
It's the nerds that the non-nerds/normies go to for advice on tech-y things. If you can generally make the nerds happy, and earn a good reputation among them, you'll have a customer base from which to expand from.
Or as Tim O'Reilly recommended back in the day, "Watching the Alpha Geeks":
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