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On a scale of 0 to 10, how good are you at technology? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What's the scale? I'm proposing:

1 - able to turn on the device (not necessarily turn it off)
9 - can train and run own LLM (from scratch, not from an existing model)
10 - knows how to reliably set up a printer

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

10 - knows how to reliably set up a printer

What is this, D&D levels? Let’s keep this fantasy nonsense out of the rating scale!

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)
  1. Inert object, no ability to move, perceive, or interact with any tech
  2. Root vegetable, largely unaware of technology
  3. Nematode or worm, unlikely to use tools much
  4. Lizard, capable of accidentally pressing buttons
  5. Blue Jay, might learn to deliberately press a button
  6. Orangutan, could make and use simple tools
  7. Human baby, likes to grab things, can use iphone
  8. American high school student, can use electric toothbrush
  9. Chess club member, probably knows javascript
  10. Go club member, probably knows C++
  11. Kernel hacker
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

As someone who wrote not only one, but two kernels, can I claim an 11?

[–] StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 9 points 2 days ago

kernel

kernel

kernel

11s hate this one simple trick !

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only if you make something like TempleOS.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not that crazy. I built a fully working preemptive multitasking OS for my C64 (although it was a heavily modified machine), and another one for a customer that used eight processors communicating over SCSI.

I created a patch for Linux 0.97 (+-, at least somewhere below 1.0), too.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Sounds like fun!

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Does a university assignment in assembly count?

[–] Monster96@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Kernal, that's something to do with popcorn right? I'm definitely a 10