The linked post shows how most non-tech people’s understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

  • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    301·
    17 hours ago

    I now after many years of living understand most people don’t care or even want to understand how anything works. It completely baffles me.

    Everyone I know says I’m smart but nah, I was literally in special Ed classes in school. I’m proven slower than the rest, but I am just curious and want to understand how things work which no one else does. It blows my mind how uninterested people are in the things they use everyday

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      12·
      13 hours ago

      You might be slower than the rest, but still smarter than them. Hare and turtoise kinda situation. Nothing wrong with being a slow learner, the willingness to learn is where it’s at.

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      6·
      13 hours ago

      I am just curious and want to understand how things work which no one else does.

      It depends on how interested you are in a subject. Everything is interesting, but you may not find everything equally interesting, nor do you have time to know everything there is to know about everything.

      For instance, if I fly somewhere, I have a general idea of how wings create lift. But if you try to explain it to me in detail, I’ll tell you to piss off because all I really want to do is travel from A to B.

      But I know plenty about other subjects that I’m really into, that I could bore you to tears with and you’d end up punching me in the face if I tried to explain them to you.

      It’s not okay to not know anything about something. But it’s okay to know enough.

      • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        13 hours ago

        That’s fine but when people use technology every day, their phones, computers, ect… and not know what a web browser is that’s a whole different level of ignorance. Not just computing tho also cars. I barely know much about cars but I understand the idea of an engine, like you said it’s okay to know enough. If something breaks on my car I look it up on YouTube and learn a little more slowly. Some people tho will drive a car everyday for their entire life and not understand what a piston even is.