• comradegodzilla@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    I don’t understand how these tech people can be so bad with researching things and then installing a distro.

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      4 days ago

      “I already know X. I’m brilliant, so if I don’t currently know Y, it’s not worth knowing. I will ignore the 30 years it took me to get to where I am knowing X.”

      Which fallacies cover this? I suppose we can start with Dunning-Kruger?

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        3 days ago

        Yea. I guess I always assume people are genuine, but it is a group who care about entertaining more than teaching.

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          3 days ago

          I think it’s business savvy on his part, he had all the tech viewers he could get, so he expanded to tech entertainment.
          I don’t like it but it’s profitable.