A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
The reason I am still with .world is because I cant be arsed to figure out how to kove instance or remember hownI set it up.
I can copy command line prompts from forums and chatgpt to my newly linted linux pc...that I dont really use because I cant figure shit out.
So was Twitter way back in the day (I’m talking ~ 2006 when I still worked in tech news). In a similar way, I think it’s up to us ~~canaries~~ early adopters to help them learn.
There was a time when no one knew how to @ someone and the pound sign was still known as the pound sign. People learned (and yes, platforms got much better and more polished). They can learn again. But we teachers need patience and kindness when helping them.
I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
I would, too. Because I've literally seen Reddit users complain that it's too hard when it's just as easy as signing up for Reddit outside of a few instances that make you jump through hoops to sign up.
Nah, I'm only partially tech literate. I don't know how in the fuck to use a terminal or command line stuff.
But I know what HTTPS is and how to check the header of an email to know if its phishing. I know how to use and manage PGP keys (although I have zero people to communicate with so I end up never using it, in practice).
Boot from USB is just spamming one of the F1 F2 F11 F12 button repeatedly then select the USB, very easy, learned that in 2 minutes using a web search.
But don't ask me to set up a Lemmy Instance, I aint got the brain power for it, I'm likely to mess up setting up the security aspect of it then a hacker is gonna deface it like lemmy.world that time when they got hacked. I actually have zero clue on how to set up self-host stuff. I don't bother with a NAS, I just copy my photos, videos, movies, wikipedia .zim files via a USB cable directly to a portable SSD (I keep multiple copies of the same files). If I need my files on the go, I just take one of the SSDs and put it in my pocket. No NAS needed.
(Also NAS are kinda expensive, and you have to buy the drives separately, so the NAS thing is kinda just expensive stuff on top of the storage you already have to pay for, so I don't bother, I love my portable SSDs)
or at least navigate a directory through the command line
Why, obviously. I mean who hasn't read through the ls(1) man page at least once?
Where's the meme of the wojack at the party standing in the corner saying "They don't even know how to boot from USB"
Nah, I'm an idiot XD
It's been like this in some online communities since mIRC was popular. mIRC was not user friendly and people had to know how to access it, change servers, use commands. This seemed simple to me back then but most of my friends could not be bothered.
With Meta's slop, TikTok, and Reddit being so easy people rarely step outside those bubbles anymore.
It seems like a lot of people almost delight in their tech illiteracy. And the big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank.
from my interactions with people after i told them i switched from chrome, the average person doesn’t know the difference between a web browser and a search engine…
When I first read this I thought the title was "tech illiterate" which I thought was a bit rude, but anecdotally true.
Sure we've got healthy linux and programmers communities, but I think most people are just regular degular folx.
100%. Thats why I like it here hahaha
not sure how most do anything. echo? most need a button says 'click here'. can drag a horse to water...