@MoeBritannica I'll preface this by saying that I am technically a zoomie myself: this is the consequence of having technology that is *too* user-friendly.
I'm not saying it needs to be Arch Linux level unfriendly, but there shouldn't be the amount of handholding that Mac/OSX/iOS has nor the amount of "rtfm fgt" that Unix has.
For a lot of people around my age "tech" is stuff like Alexa, Smart TVs, Amazon Echo, iPhones, etc. rather than something like servers, NAS, or what most people usually think of as tech.
Because instead of telling people "hey, you actually should spend some time learning about this technology that you'll be using every day!" they just make it incredibly fucking simple and retard-friendly. This has its upsides for some things, I won't deny that's really useful but it has a drawback: if that's all you're exposed to, you don't *really* know how technology works.
I could continue but I don't want to rant about it.
@MoeBritannica I was lucky enough to have (somewhat) tech-literate parents that stressed the importance of looking at the help pages in programs or the manuals of devices, it's probably because of this that I gained a healthy sense of just how fucking volatile technology can be and why being user friendly is important, but retard friendly is infuriating.
User friendly: "hey, we're just showing you this alert to make sure that this is the file/directory you wanted to delete. It's linked to important structures so please make sure."
Retard friendly: "you can't delete this even though it's not a system or critical file"
