The 3 Stages of Tech Literacy

The 3 stages of tech literacy 1. I love technology! Google and Microsoft make amazing, quality software. When I grow up I want to have a full smart home setup! 2. I use GNU/Linux as it is a much more streamlined and resource efficient operating system. However, big companies are not bad, after all they are what fund the development of Linux. 3. Fuck all of you, GNU/Linux is a bullshit operating system dictated by big tech. I will do all my computing on a librebooted thinkpad running my own operating system written in x86 assembly, internet is not needed in the forest cabin where I live.

The image presents three stages of tech literacy through progressively more extreme Wojak-style characters. It starts with enthusiastic trust in Google and Microsoft, moves to a reasonable preference for GNU/Linux, and ends with an antisocial programmer rejecting big tech, the internet, and mainstream operating systems. The joke is about how technical knowledge can turn into increasingly intense ideological contrarianism, and it is used as a reaction to debates about Linux, privacy, open source software, or tech elitism.

• @gentoomemes / 538 2022-06-20