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Me in every thread that gets bombarded with IT guys talking about extremely specific technical problems on any article that dares mention a technology developed after the cotton gin.
"A man was crushed to death by a vending machine while trying to get it to accept a credit card.."
The thread: ok but those old BGT models had real CNTA problems and the network was trash. He's lucky he wasn't killed when the Arduino suddenly exploded like on the ASPA models
And I'm like the only guy wondering what language that was
That's an example of the speaker not being aware of their audience, or assuming that anyone listening/reading is "like them." There's definitely a time and place for "in-group jargon" (which is found in all sorts of in-groups, not just techie ones), but usually your audience is going to be more general. My personal rule is that if I have to use jargon that a general audience would likely not understand, I will give a plain language explanation.
If only Linux folks would read this. Have to be in the group to understand anything they are talking about.
Written by someone that barely uses Linux and can't stand the toxic folks when asking a question.
Right with you on that. Linux documentation is almost universally written for an audience who is already in that in-group of experts. Want to get started with no experience? Good luck.
But maybe in a general internet forum, it's okay? I quite like running into these random rabbit holes. And the nice thing about threaded forums is that it's very easy to move past non pertinent stuff