<div dir="auto">Wow, what a grumpy old man! <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think he's half right. The percentage of users who are power users is going down, but that is because the number of users is going up and appreciating 100% of the populace (except my mother) while the number of power users is holding pretty steady. I think. I have no hard data to back that up, but I do meet young people at work who know a lot.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think there are a fairly small number of people with a natural affinity for technology at that level. It used to be that all computer users were of that type, but now everyone is a user, but the power users are still out there.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Michael</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 11, 2026, 11:40 AM lollipopman691 via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/</a><br>
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Hm. I am way more optimistic than this guy. Maybe 'cause I am mostly a member of the very Technical Communities he claims "the cultural mass behind . . . has collapsed". From where I am sitting,we appear still very much alive. And the 3D printing + MakerSpace folks are continuing the fight. Right to Repair is still very much in the news and being litigated both in courts and in legislatures.<br>
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Doesn't mean we can relax though.<br>
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