Everyone insisted that it was “easy”. I’ve come to realize this community is heavily developer-based and completely unaware of what they average person would consider easy.

This is applicable to every piece of advice I’ve gotten from lemmy and from reddit before it.

No, I can’t work from home.

No, I don’t have a raspberry pi and I don’t know how one works.

I don’t know what podcast you’re talking about.

I have to fight to prevent my eyes glazing over when you say apk.

If you link me to something and it’s just a list of the latest bugfixes without even a summary of what the fucking software IS, I won’t understand.

Poor people are not scary. Some of them wear glasses too.

I don’t even HAVE a PC, just a laptop that I carry with me.

You lost me at “terminal”.

I don’t know what any of those acronyms and abbreviations you’re using mean.

I think it’s more likely some people working in those fields wanted to improve their career by popularizing a new term.