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c/linuxmemes by u/carotte 1w ago files.catbox.moe

foss nerds stop being condescending to those who don't know the same things you do challenge (impossible)

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An edit of xkcd 2501, "Average Familiarity":
[Ponytail and Cueball are talking. Ponytail has her hand raised, palm up, towards Cueball.]
Ponytail: Open-source alternatives are second nature to us foss nerds, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Linux and one or two degoogled Android ROMs.
Cueball: And Firefox, of course.
Ponytail: Of course.

[Caption below the panel]
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.
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partly inspired by the replies to [this post](https://lemmy.world/post/46710153) but i see this kind of thing all the time (shoutout to the person who once genuinely asked "who still uses google these days?")

made with [this neat tool](https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/)
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