@Taskerland I will add, though, that the IT people aren't the only ones.
Gearheads.
And I don't mean gamers who like mecha. I mean the people who can't comprehend how anyone goes through life without disassembling a carburetor. They're the redneck IT crowd.
IT is a really interesting profession... No other profession seems to produce people who think that the highly-technical skills for which they are well paid are just common sense.
Even when Gordon Ramsay made TV shows yelling at rubbish cooks his standpoint was generally a) why didn't you learn this at catering college, b) why haven't your previous employers helped you to develop these skills, and c) why did you decide to open a restaurant despite having no training?
@Taskerland I am perpetually amused that IT people really, sincerely have no idea that they speak Martian.
@SJohnRoss @Taskerland
I'm an IT person who never learned to speak Martian well. It's a weird spot to be in. I can do the work. I can explain it in mostly lay terms. I can't explain it in Martian. Thank cats people are willing to listen to me to realize I do know it.
@Taskerland I will add, though, that the IT people aren't the only ones.
Gearheads.
And I don't mean gamers who like mecha. I mean the people who can't comprehend how anyone goes through life without disassembling a carburetor. They're the redneck IT crowd.
Re: Another push to get people off #substack is prompting IT professionals to write posts about how easy it is to set up your own site.
S. John Ross Indeed. There is, of course, a relevant XKCD for this.
@SJohnRoss It took me until comparatively recently to know what a carburetor even was.
@Taskerland @SJohnRoss "It's a thing grandad's car had. Why are you crying?"
@[email protected] @[email protected] I needed to speak to a plumber about irrigation for a large garden a few years ago, and yeah. Whole new world of plumbing knowledge and terminology I didn't understand layered on top of horticultural terminology I didn't understand.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I have been promoted repeatedly in my career for being mediocre at translating between my fellow IT professionals and ... well, anyone else.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I cringed this morning when I saw somebody saying 'oh, I'd love to set up my own blog but I'm not sure how' because I'm sure that at least 15 helpful IT professionals have now convinced them it is impossible.
(Although also, hats off to people like @[email protected] who are actually doing the hard work of writing guides that make sense to the rest of the population)
@mavnn aw I totally understand! when I wrote on here in the winter of 2024 that I planned to set up my own self-hosted Fedi instance, I was met with an avalanche of posts warning me about security... which made me scared to announce what my new self-hosted account was.
For blogging, most hosting providers allow for one-click installations of Wordpress. I would recommend that, it's super easy (and you can federate a WP blog with @pfefferle's plugin ActivityPub for WP)
