Post by @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange

2026-09-26 02:19 UTC

@guyjantic@infosec.exchange @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social I think a sufficiently motivated "regular person" could figure it out if they have easy access to a nerd, it's troubleshooting it when it breaks that's the hard part.

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@guyjantic@infosec.exchange 2026-09-26 03:44

@FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @hrbrmstr@mastodon.social A. The troubleshooting takes up a stupid amount of my time, which is why I have moved away from several otherwise useful things, including some self-hosted apps. B. A "regular person" could figure this out if the nerd did literally all of it. I am more in the non-tech than the tech world. I know maybe 2 other people who could do any of this. A couple of people I know tried Proton calendar and gave up because it was too complicated. I look to my incoming college students: Unless they are in CS they don't know things like "if it's on your screen, then it is on your computer somewhere" or what a file is. Half a dozen times a semester I have a conversation explaining that clicking a link on the web and clicking a link in the Windows start menu do not do the same thing. The word "download" is mystical to them.

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