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

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[-] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 3 weeks 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.social 15 points 3 weeks 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.org 8 points 3 weeks 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.org 5 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

You sound like someone who would enjoy The Secret Life of Machines. I've never met anyone else in real life who wanted to watch it with me, for the reasons you mention.

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