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.
Entirely dependent on the field of technology. On average, like a 6 or 7? But i do regularly find myself to be a dumbass who doesn’t know shit about fuck.
If my brain worked on command that’d probably bump me up to an 8 or 9 though.
5/10, i customize my linux desktop, i know how to setup a basic linux server, etc.
So, not sure what details I may be missing, but my experience putting any non-steam game onto a steam deck is just transferring over the game folder and linking the executable in steam. No idea how one could mess up any other part of the system with that.
I’ve been working with computers and building them my whole life. I am pretty good with windows. I regularly tell potential employers in interviews that I rate my skills with windows computers at about a 6/10. I can probably fix anything you broke, but I am terrified of editing hex code and other things that the IT wizards do with ease.
I can take apart most electronics and put them back together without breaking them which is not a skill that most people possess apparently. Back when I worked at geeksquad I became known as the “laptop keyboard repair guy” in the area. Other stores would literally send people to see me because apparently nobody else can take apart an hp laptop and remember where all of the 47 screws went or do it without ripping a ribbon cable. 🤷🏼♂️
A solid 4, I think. Sure, I can build a PC and install an OS but both of those have been pretty much plug and play for decades at this point.
Don’t ask me about your smartphone, your smart home devices or your Windows 10/11 problems, I don’t have a clue about any of that. If you visited my home you’d be forgiven for thinking it was abandoned 20 years ago.
I can usually figure out basic tech I’ve never used before, but I’d prefer to have the manual, help or hindrance though that may be.
I am an IT technician, I would say that I am about a 7.
Most of my job deals with psychology.
I mean im in IT and it really depends. Everythings a learning curve so things you have figured out usually goes well but since every tech has pretty much unlimited use cases you still can hit roadblocks. For things you have never done it takes time to learn how to do the common uses and then you can expand out to things that require more finesse (ideally, if the boss wants Z you make it do Z even if you never got it to do X)
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 printer10 - 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!
- Inert object, no ability to move, perceive, or interact with any tech
- Root vegetable, largely unaware of technology
- Nematode or worm, unlikely to use tools much
- Lizard, capable of accidentally pressing buttons
- Blue Jay, might learn to deliberately press a button
- Orangutan, could make and use simple tools
- Human baby, likes to grab things, can use iphone
- American high school student, can use electric toothbrush
- Chess club member, probably knows javascript
- Go club member, probably knows C++
- Kernel hacker
Kernal, that’s something to do with popcorn right? I’m definitely a 10
As someone who wrote not only one, but two kernels, can I claim an 11?
Only if you make something like TempleOS.
kernel
kernel
kernel
11s hate this one simple trick !
Please give references for the scale
Also Richard Stallman – the man who wrote the original Emacs and GCC – has never installed a GNU+Linux distro, and he has no idea/interest in it.
how the fuck do you “bug” the internal speakers while attempting to pirate a game? that’s like saying you broke the sink while trying to change a light bulb.
Dependency… magic. Currently I am having to wait for Firefox not loading websites due to a slower DVD drive I am uploading from to cloud in another tab.
Maybe some internal QoS thingy where it thinks the network connection is slow.And recently I had issues with laptop taking a very long time to resume from sleep or turning screen back on due to iio-sensor-proxy, a program responsible for… at least determining physical screen orientation.
First one sounds like a RAM issue, or maybe bandwidth. Uploading directly from a disc sounds incredibly resource hungry.
Neither. Network-wise everything would work, but other Firefox tabs. Especially when I tried uploading multiple files at once, which caused too much seeking.
I was still able to stream from VLC, while the same stream would time out in Firefox.Anyway, I just had to reboot due to a certain runaway situation. Something happened with UDF-fs that caused 100% CPU through excessive logging.
Welcome to linux!
Idk, its actually a common problem according to SteamDeck users on reddit, so like its not just me. Must’ve accidentally messed with a setting.
EDIT: sorry, that was mean and uncalled for, but I’ll leave it here for people to downvote if they want.
trying to fix things… bugged the internal speakers
sounds to me like the problem is located somewhere between the user and the trackpads.
11 - I avoid it as much as I can ;)
More seriously, I will often be the one people around ask for help but it doesn’t change that I also learned to absolutely distrust tech.
All tech, be it corporate-owned as well as free/Libre… I’m using Linux and have no issue (I like it) but I’m also terrified by the many ‘social code of conducts’ that have been popping out in many communities. Not necessarily because I disagree with their core values, that would not even matter much, but because it’s stating a precedent to allow a group to remove any user they don’t like/disagree with the right to use a tech… and that power will be used even when not ‘the good guys’ will be in charge.
Hence me slowly falling back to analog as much as possible…
Edit: typos, clarifications
My thing is C++ and Z80/45GS02 assembly, and I love a good terminal, so wherever that puts me I guess
My technology skill makes me satisfied that your scale starts at zero, but annoyed it didn’t end with nine.
Whatever score you give to youself, will be a demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I think the opposite—seems like many of you on Lemmy don’t realize how bad the general population is with technology and are selling yourselves short. Even knowing what linux is puts you at a 6/10 imo, especially when compared to most folks (half of whom don’t know how gmail works).
Like the fact that we’re on Lemmy—a site that most americans probably couldn’t access if they tried—shows we’re all at least a 5/10 on the technology scale.
So what you are saying is my estimate of 8/10 is too low, right? Right…?
I laughed way too hard at this
Can confirm: I rate myself a 7/10. I know a lot about a few things and a moderate amount about many more, but there’s always more to learn…
The tech field is so vast, most people can’t even list the industries within tech, let alone being competent in just a small part of it.
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.)
