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[โ€“] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think you're really helping laymen by using off-kilter terminology. It's way more confusing if they go to find more information and stumble across other people using it properly.

[โ€“] lost_faith@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I get where you are coming from. This will let 1 set of users know to call their tech friend and the 2nd set will be ready to learn a bit and will learn the adult words vs the eli5 one they started with