Yes, you should be ashamed. As a tool that you probably depend on every day, you need to have some sort of basic understanding, to do basic troubleshooting, and to have a vague understanding what your mechanic tells you
One could say the same about the TV, about the internet, about block cypher encryption, about the economy, about the local sewage system, about the local water and electricity systems, about all sorts of things that we rely on every day.
Oh then there’s the boiler, the cooker, the microwave, the fridge, the telecommunications network…
At what point do I go “huh – maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it” rather than trying to learn even the basics about everything that could go wrong in my life when there are CLEARLY people who know more about it than I do and are paid to know more about it than I do?
Yes, you should be ashamed. As a tool that you probably depend on every day, you need to have some sort of basic understanding, to do basic troubleshooting, and to have a vague understanding what your mechanic tells you
One could say the same about the TV, about the internet, about block cypher encryption, about the economy, about the local sewage system, about the local water and electricity systems, about all sorts of things that we rely on every day.
Oh then there’s the boiler, the cooker, the microwave, the fridge, the telecommunications network…
At what point do I go “huh – maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it” rather than trying to learn even the basics about everything that could go wrong in my life when there are CLEARLY people who know more about it than I do and are paid to know more about it than I do?
Every one of those, you should know how to operate them, have done basic knowledge how they work, and be able to troubleshoot basic problems.
And yes, most importantly you should understand when it’s a user issue and when