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An edit of xkcd 2501, “Average Familiarity”:
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.

[Caption below the panel]
Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.

partly inspired by the replies to this post but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked “who still uses google these days?”)

made with this neat tool

  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I remember being on Reddit some time ago, and in the comments somebody mentioned Linux. The next comment was “What’s Linux?”

    I try to keep that post in mind whenever I think anything is common knowledge.

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I’m of two minds on this.

      In some respects people are learning new things everyday and your take is correct.

      On the other hand it’s so incredibly easy to highlight some text and click search that it it shows a profound lack of curiosity and a lot of laziness.