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edmund_the_destroyer wrote

I understand. When you use Windows or Macs sometimes you don't know how something works, so you plug in "Windows 10 add ...." in a search engine or "OS X 10.3 add ..." in a search engine. It's no different for Linux, or anything else. But people get so used to one domain that everything else seems alien.

But for context, I consider my own inflexibility. I don't know how to make more than a basic stir fry or cook pasta dishes more complex than noodles with a sauce. I want to be better, but I just don't put the time. I hate paying a plumber for a lot of simple fixes, I should learn what I need to do more myself. But I don't put the time in. Likewise for sewing, music, dance, car repair, and dozens of other domains. So I'm definitely not a polymath, I just happen to be flexible inside the tech domain. I can't blame someone else who can do fifty things I can't for being inflexible inside tech.

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