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68040
512 MB  Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! 
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on: December 03, 2021, 13:53
I was just researching some trouble I am having with my Linux Deploy suite being put to sleep by the dreaded Android battery optimizer - despite having disabled any switch to that in the settings of my tablet. I went on a plattform that used to be a gathering place for true experts, discussing highly technical matters amongst themselves. But what did I discover when I reentered there after many, many years of absence? Posts like "Can somebody help me with a 'for dummies' guide so I can ensure I do it right when installing Kali Linux?" I would have liked to scream at that dude: "Boy, if you need a 'for dummies guide' then you got no business installing a hacker operating system!" Yet I held my peace and moved on. But still, the Internet theses days is filled to the brink with either porn or "technical" forums where people *urgently* ask for advise how to root or jailbreak their smartphone and "btw. what is root used for?" Teenage tech delinquents brag about running Windows 10 - via half a dozen emulation layers - on their not so smart anymore looking phones and I ask myself "Wtf is that supposed to be good for?!" I mean, has anyone ever bothered trying to get any kind of work done on a handheld device running Windows 10 via an emulator? If those were geeks trying to reverse engineer somebody else's code, I would actually be fascinated by it. But for the most part they are literal No-Nothings who then post BS like: "Microsoft should fix that I can not install support package XYZ on it". Yeah, you go and write a complaint letter to Bill Gates about it - I am sure he'll storm right out of his kitchen infuriated, that his operating system doesn't work well enough on your emulated pocket phone. Being a computer engineer myself, I am surely biased in this. But it used to be that only those who knew their nuts and bolts where allowed to "peek under the hood". Yet nowadays every kid with an attitude tries to mess around "down under" and as a result commercial operating systems get locked down ever tighter from release to release. Even many Linux distros now introduced "security measures" that I - as an expert - find bothersome to say the least. "rm -R" suddenly produces tons of "do you want tyo delete this or that_" questions, if not combined with "-y" Back in the days, if you put in the remove command and hit Enter on a Unix box, it was assumed that you knew what you were doing. And while its easy enough to fix that annoyance with an alias, the policy kits now being pre-installed on recent distros are an outright nightmare, akin to Window's brain damaged group policy settings: Everything from USB mounting to directoy access is being micromanaged in there. And as an IT guy I can tell you: It sucks to be micromanaged by your own computer! Even at the risk of sounding snobish: If you have to ask for a "dummy's guide" on anything, then you probably shouldn't be doing it in the first place. Because if you insist on it, then you'll only make life harder for anyone actually working in that field. |
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Last Edit: December 03, 2021, 21:07 by 68040
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #1 on: December 03, 2021, 23:40
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That is true and that seems to permeate the entire Web. I am a retired cabinetmaker and I avoid most everything cabinetmaking see on the Web, because such places tend to just be full of such talk. When the only apt advice you can provide is, "The pointy end of the tool goes into the wood." You know it is time to just leave and feel pretty confident that you have left nothing of value unread.
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #2 on: December 04, 2021, 17:36
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I have my own theory on the inflation of experts. Call me silly, but I think it has to do with people not being rooted anywhere anymore. They drift around in life without a clear understanding of who they are, where they come from, where they fit in and what their life's work is. In order to fill the void, they lay claim on topics and identify as "experts". Add a big ego as a wall so nobody notices their insecurity. A few decades back, those were the types you'd run into at a bar where they'd tell you that they're actually government agents in disguise, scientists with a misfortune, successful businessman etc. Nowadays they're on YouTube or in nerd forums and produce an outer image as experts. No real knowledge required. (or desired) The internet makes it possible to be as extrovert as possible and actually receive applause for that.
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #3 on: December 05, 2021, 00:15
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@wove - Man, you spoke from my soul! Bevore the rise of Amazon and other like "box pushers" few would have thought that furniture making was anything but the trade of expert craftsmen. After all, you ate, slept and made your children in and on your furniture. But nowadays everything has become "public domain", anyone is an expert and offers his half-baked knowledge from YouTube University as scholarly wisdom. Too much half-knowledge creates an inflation of full blown idiots! I would like to return back to the days were age and experience were not considered four letter words or excess baggage. But there are many wishes of mine that I know will never come true. :-(
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