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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

I promise you that if you collect 10 random people and ask them what Ohms law is, at most you get 5 that knows it's something about electricity. You are lucky if you have one that knows it.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I know it has to do with resistance but I couldn't quote it to you rn, I'd have to look it up. And I'm vaping rn at .4ohms lol.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's taught in every school... At least in Europe.

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 3 weeks ago

I can only speak for myself here but... A lot of things are taught in school. Most of them weren't something that I use everyday and thus have forgotten about it (some more than others, of course).

Ohm's Law would've been taught to me sometime during highschool (as the other commenter mentioned, I can tell you it relates to electricity but without looking it up I couldn't tell you the actual principle behind it) - I graduated from highschool 10 years ago, and have not had a reason to "flex" that memory ever since then.