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.
There is not one single technology to be good or bad at. You can be an Android development ace, a Windows gamer and a Linux user all at the same time, and naturally you will struggle if you switch to Windows dev and Linux gamer.
Being tech savy really just means that you know and recognize tons of patterns that pop up everywhere (e.g. drag-n-drop, config files in certain places with overrides in other places etc.)
I do all of those, but I cannot build a modern website.
Wait, it’s all JavaScript?
Update: JavaScript just ruined my day again
Are we rating ourselves against the general population? I’m an easy 9 if not 10/10.
Against people working in IT, or skilled enthusiasts? I’ve really slipped, maybe a 4 or 5 at best.
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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.
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
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
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.
8/10 maybe more, maybe less. Software developer, don’t really have issues with tech, but put me in front of a quantum computer and I sure as shit would be lost, but fine with consumer products.
Depends on if I care of not.
Phone: 3/10. I don’t really care other than googling “how to turn off annoying feature”.
Writing Software: 7/10. It’s not beautiful, but it does one thing reasonably well and I finished it in an afternoon. Just don’t ask me to write a GUI.
Writing Software for industrial machinery: I’ve done it for a living for more than a decade. Still rather skip the GUI part.
I think it is hard to give an objective rating on this since even extremely skilled individuals (probably half of Lemmy by societal standards) tend to skew their ratings toward the middle. Basically what Dunning-Krueger actually found from their research
That said… I’d rate myself as a 6/10. Maybe I actually know more than that
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.
If you blindly run commands without thinking, you’re gonna have a bad time in Linux.
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended, but if you start going outside the box on things, you can definitely break stuff. Nintendo switch would have the same problems if they let you touch the knobs that valve does with SteamOS
SteamOS is also not hard to use, especially if you use it as intended
(Isn’t causally violating copyright regulations “as intended”? 👀)
Compared to people who work on cryptography and AI magic? Like 2/10. Compared to Boomers? 9/10.
The number of computer scientists I’ve known that couldn’t set up a VPN, or alter a firewall rule, or change the layout on a web page slightly, or set their out of office replies…
Basically the experience I’ve had is that those people you imagine are gods of tech are frequently terrible at tech beyond their very narrow niche.
But boomers, yeah. Even my mom who was a programmer and mostly stayed current on tech. But when Facebook stopped using a chronological news feed, she couldn’t handle it.
I have an English Master’s and my wife has a PhD in Comp Sci. Guess who sets up all the techie stuff. That’ll be meeeee.
PS fuck Facebook’s feed. I found out about a friend’s death 2 weeks after she died (her parents couldn’t get at her address book so they posted with her account on Facebook instead). I had to tell her other friends because NOBODY had seen the post.
Somewhere between 7 and 8, if 8 is knowing how to program in programming languages. I don’t, but I can script pretty well and I am very techy.
I am an IT technician, I would say that I am about a 7.
Most of my job deals with psychology.
