this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
547 points (95.8% liked)

tumblr

4129 readers
153 users here now

Welcome to /c/tumblr, a place for all your tumblr screenshots and news.

Our Rules:

  1. Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.

  2. No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.

  3. Must be tumblr related. This one is kind of a given.

  4. Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.

  5. No unnecessary negativity. Just because you don't like a thing doesn't mean that you need to spend the entire comment section complaining about said thing. Just downvote and move on.

Sister Communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
547
You summon it by chanting and fire, right? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
179 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, you should be ashamed. As a tool that you probably depend on every day, you need to have some sort of basic understanding, to do basic troubleshooting, and to have a vague understanding what your mechanic tells you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

One could say the same about the TV, about the internet, about block cypher encryption, about the economy, about the local sewage system, about the local water and electricity systems, about all sorts of things that we rely on every day.

Oh then there's the boiler, the cooker, the microwave, the fridge, the telecommunications network..........

At what point do I go "huh -- maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it" rather than trying to learn even the basics about everything that could go wrong in my life when there are CLEARLY people who know more about it than I do and are paid to know more about it than I do?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Every one of those, you should know how to operate them, have done basic knowledge how they work, and be able to troubleshoot basic problems.

And yes, most importantly you should understand when it’s a user issue and when

At what point do I go “huh – maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it”