A Clash of Cultures
A friend of mine has a strange approach to tech, at least in my opinion.<p>She didn't buy a computer till 5 years ago, only used the library ones to write and print some documents.<p>Then suddenly she bought a laptop and setup Linux on it. Took her a few weeks, but she got everything up and running without any help.<p>Also, she had an old cellphone for years and then she bought a Nexus 4, rooted it and installed an OS of her choosing on it. It took her at least a month to get the thing because she never used eBay or PayPal before.<p>My girlfriend also rooted her smartphones multiple times when they got no updates anymore and installed Cyanogen mod.<p>Both these women aren't what you would call tech affine, if you interact with them on a daily basis.<p>Somehow they got rather complicated technical issues fixed without any help.<p>This really challenged my perspective on technical know how.