If you’ve got nothing nice to say, go the fuck away. I’m instantly blocking shitheads who want to poke fun at this for their own amusement. You lead sad little lives.
I am probably the last of the group of people that were some of the early adopters of the internet. The internet didn’t fully become public and more accessible until 1994, I didn’t start using the internet until 1996. I am nearing 30 years old on the internet by next year. People from my group, we’ve seen it all by this point.
We’ve seen the internet at it’s infancy, as it developed, the explosion of it’s usage, the dot com bubble burst, Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Flash’s death and the ongoing enshittification of the internet today as we know it.
i occupy a different sort of middle ground in that i’m at the right generation to get those well paying technical jobs simply because i had to monkey around with off-the-shelf hardware and linux when they were both new to most people; but i also don’t get as many requests for technical help as i once did from family.
however, in my case, it’s been because the entire younger generations of my family have gone with iphones along with apple’s walled garden so they’ve never had to struggle with something like getting winsock working on windows 3.11 just to get internet porn. lol
somehow, it’s only the other older & leftist in my family that insist on diy implementations with linux and foss hardware, including de-googled androids; while the moderates and conservatives alike just buy iphones and never learn because of it.
like in your case; they see that technical skillset as mildly useful at best even though it underpins their own technology choices. worst of it all to me is that i get to witness them struggling to afford another iphone or its fees simply because they refuse to go with “poor people androids” or they don’t want to deal with the frustration of getting things to work without apple’s walled garden; some prioritize it over food or rent simply due to the exorbitant costs.