Gregory's ServerThe issue with people not understanding filesystems isn't that people don't understand filesystems; it's that for decades now the leading technology companies have been executing a campaign to strip basic computer literacy from everyone who isn't college educated, allowing the formation of a cult of tech and the mysticization of the process in order to justify monopolies and oligopologies with outsized influence over daily life for everyone on Earth.
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God Rattus of Vengeance
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God Rattus of Vengeance
all of that said the phrase "zoomers don't know what a file is" is very funny, 2 me
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@juliana I dunno, like if you grew up on Chromebooks and Google Drive I can see you having no idea what a "file" is. And the fact that many don't know why the save icon is a floppy. I like the *nix ethos of "everything is a file" personally.
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@juliana I have never met a zoomer who doesn't know about files, like, at all. Some people are close, though - Big Tech is pushing /very/ hard to make the kids stop trying to understand and tinker with their computers. It's scary, honestly.
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@juliana I can certainly speak for the validity of "zoomers don't know how to pirate stuff", though. Again - tech corporations want to be worshipped as gods and blindly obeyed. Not gonna happen on my watch. 
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Byte [Moved]
@juliana I mean, I know what a file is. But a lot of details are for sure hidden for nefarious reasons these days, even on file based cloud storage like Google Drive. |
I fundamentally believe that computers should help as many people as possible do as much as possible, and the way to achieve that isn't by hiding what computers are doing; it's by making what computers are doing understandable and manipulable by users.
Computers should do what their users tell them to. No more, and no less.