Most people are not autonomous in their use of computers to solve their problems because they cannot use the languages listed. They must hope for an app to solve their problem. But they can use a spreadsheet to solve their problem!
The sad reality is, however, that today we buy computers that essentially boot into the app store.

Few people know how to use computers.

from bouncepaw:

Alex tells us that, for him, baking and cooking are easier than programming and soldering, because the errors there average out. As for me, this is completely inverse.

In programming, an error never fixes itself. You can observe it and fix it, you can write tests. You can run the program multiple times. It's you who fixes it, and you can understand how it's done. It's measurable!

Meanwhile, cooking is a nightmare. Burning something is routine for me. Is that too much or too little oil? For how long do I fry? What do I do with these spices? Do they really affect the taste? And to observe something, I can't rely on symbolic things like text. No, I have to look (is this color good? No idea!), smell (as if I know the difference) and taste (nothing more inaccurate).

I'm happy when something can be cooked with a timer. 15 min for buckwheat? I'm in. I'm more happy when the time is short. 4 min for this thin kind of spaghetti? Already boiling water!

I mean, even boiling water is not simple. My parents told me to wait until the correct bubbles appear. I'm waiting for the scary ones. Also, salt is supposed to make it boil faster. How much salt do I add?

And I didn't even talk about plants, which Alex also considers easy. They're not 😭

Totally agree!

Compared to their humble wired counterparts, wireless headphones are expensive, easy to lose, unreliable, and environmentally destructive

С одной стороны, провода жутко бесят. С другой стороны, нельзя доверять беспроводным технологиям:

• мучаешься с подключением по синезубу

• наушники могут просто заглохнуть в центре города из-за скопления современных машин, которые ОЧЕНЬ засоряют эфир

• ну и да, потерять наушники очень просто. Однажды чуть в раковину не уронил, пока делал уборку, наушник просто выпал из уха :/