The linked post shows how most non-tech people’s understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

  • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    2 days ago

    Don’t explain anything, there’s literally no point. Why are nerds so insistent that people understand technology?

    All people understand Ohm’s law now. It took only 150 years of explaining.

    • Droechai@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I promise you that if you collect 10 random people and ask them what Ohms law is, at most you get 5 that knows it’s something about electricity. You are lucky if you have one that knows it.

      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Yeah I know it has to do with resistance but I couldn’t quote it to you rn, I’d have to look it up. And I’m vaping rn at .4ohms lol.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        It’s taught in every school… At least in Europe.

        • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Great. So is history, trigonometry and literature.

          It doesn’t mean adults know it. Most of what you learn in school will be forgotten unless you have a reason to keep using it.

        • Russ@bitforged.spaceEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I can only speak for myself here but… A lot of things are taught in school. Most of them weren’t something that I use everyday and thus have forgotten about it (some more than others, of course).

          Ohm’s Law would’ve been taught to me sometime during highschool (as the other commenter mentioned, I can tell you it relates to electricity but without looking it up I couldn’t tell you the actual principle behind it) - I graduated from highschool 10 years ago, and have not had a reason to “flex” that memory ever since then.