Announcement: I will no longer be using the "so simple your mom can use it" analogy, due to me being now old enough to be a mom or technically a grandma, and also due to the fact my actual literal mother once wrote a COBOL manual. Henceforth if I need a shorthand for "computer user who isn't very into it" I will now reach for "Uncles". It is my hope any Uncles out there reading this will simply take this in stride, due to how avuncular you are

@mcc @ryancRyan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: I really enjoy using dentists as the example. There aren't a lot of biases about dentists so it's difficult for the analogy to drift into something unpleasant. It would be unreasonable to characterize dentists as stupid, lazy, incompetent &c. They're smart professionals who simply do not have time for whatever nonsense might be going on in a computer systems. There's no reason to expect dentists to care about software developers' value systems (like free software or memory safety or self hosting) unless it has real concrete value and is worth the time investment to think through.

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