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What I try to remember though is I felt that way about everything, initially:) . My wife didn't miss or need a second monitor for our first five years together - and then she finally tried it and she cannot imagine living without one now. She fought me on Netflix as cable already had so many channels she didn't need anything more (same results once she tried it:) . I fought my best friend on vr for 2 years until he practically locked me in his basement and stuck oculus on my head and now I feel stupid for not trying sabre beat or boxing apps sooner :).

Not everything will work that way. But "I don't currently need" is not always a good / sufficient dismissal of something new.

To the original point - I do not have crypto tiktok discord tor snapchat etc... And may indeed be considered illiterate to some, even though I too have been on them intertubes for 3 decades and make my living in IT:). It was a point of pride for people I knew in 90s and 2000s to not have tried interwebs.

(I've tried chatgpt though and find it massively useful for learning!)



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