20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.

[elizafox@social.treehouse.systems]

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.

Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

[endlessmason@hachyderm.io]

@Elizafox
Cc @totallynotawolf

[holly@social.v.st]

@Elizafox The more you look at it, the deeper this post gets

[rawenwolf@meow.social]

@Elizafox
Oh yes, the famous difference between tech enthusiast and tech expert.
The former has an automated arse-wiping machine with a realtime biochemical analyser in it, sharing the data with 1000 brokers.
The latter's most modern piece of HW is a 20-year-old printer and they keep a shotgun at hand to blow it up to pieces the moment it starts misbehaving.

[tang0008@mastodon.social]

@Elizafox 20 years ago we had Bob Toaster, Johnny Technology, and Steve Forest,

[aphrodite@chaos.social]

@Elizafox

I already am living on a farm with nearly no tech.

[thedaemon@snac.9front.club]

We all dream of that perfect small homestead.

CC: @Elizafox@treehouse.systems

[da_kink@defcon.social]

@Elizafox as a wise person once wrote "I keep a hammer next to the printer in case it makes a noise I don't like or recognize".

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@Elizafox Yes, yes we do... -- ancient techie