31/05/2025
It always astounds me how technology illiterate YOUNG people can be. Boomers not knowing how to switch to HDMI on a TV is a little more understandable, it's recent technology for them, they never had to do that before. But at school my classmates wouldn't even know how to send an email. I had one of them ask me how to type an asterisk on a keyboard - I said "just... Hold shift, then press 8. You can see the 8 key has an asterisk over it", he proceeded to press shift once, then 8, then looked at me like I was stupid.
It's like the computer is a mystery to them, and I can't grasp how that's possible in this day and age?
But I forgot, that that's just how phones are built nowadays. Every process is streamlined and you are actively discouraged to understand it, to look inside it. I fear this may have to do with anti repair design.
If you don't know how your device works, if you can't access it's files and programs, you're fucked if something is wrong with the software. Better pay them to fix it for you.
This is the exact philosophy of anti repair design used by, for example, Apple. You make your product deliberately a huge pain in the ass to physically take apart, to replace parts, to fix anything, so that people cannot do it themselves. Instead, they have to pay YOU directly, which just gives you more money. Or better yet, it's built so shit they replace their product! They buy a whole new one, giving you EVEN MORE MONEY!
