> Question is for each of us who are experts in the field: do we continue to encourage this trend or do we encourage people to learn? This is will not happen.

> Question is for each of us who are experts in the field: do we continue to encourage this trend or do we encourage people to learn? This is will not happen. Every other tech fellow I speak to (working in SAP-/Oracle/google/type Giant to a startup) tells me that I just do it as I need $$$. Done. As long as they can afford/get the appropriate help. They dont care about average joe that knows only bestbuy or google photos. > Do you think people with macbooks etc never encounter issues with software/hardware and all just work automatically always without having to care about anything? Thi The advantage is that with macbooks/chromebooks/windows (even ubuntu to some level) is that you can google and get some info. Worst case I have seen customers in Apple Store - with a old (i.e) 2 year old macs - asking the Genius to please copy everything to their new device. With Raspberry or WD - one cant do it. (Sure there are some Linux User Groups where an old fart will do it for a beer but most people dont know this).. It is a difficult challenge, ideally: one gets some kind of govt authorisation for a FAAANG-account - and it will get backup up with FAANG for some $/month. And one can produce some govt ID to restore it. Of course it has other issues - but for average Joe whose privacy is already lost - they would be too happy to just to get their wedding/holiday pics back.