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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)
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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Started on Mac. Still use one as my (not so-) daily driver. In the ~30 years in between, I've (professionally) been a PC field service technician, mainframe operator, datacenter tech, enterprise monitoring administrator, and a whole slew of other tech hats. In my personal time, I learned OS 7-8 inside and out (ResEdit ftw), built PCs out of spare parts (throwing Linux on some just to do it), turned an old tower into an external SCSI enclosure, built VM stacks for fun (DOS 6.2, Win 3.1, Win95 all on the same Mac box decades ago, just because I could), half-wired my parents' house for ethernet, built them a Hackintosh from parts, stuck a Linux VM on an old laptop to host Citrix so I could remote into work and have that one extra layer between personal and business, and gotten completely disillusioned with tech as a hobby and as the framework for modern society.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I followed you right off that cliff.

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

30ish more years of this. 🫠