• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    It’s the nuts and bolts needed to make a computer do things I actually care about.

    So you mean like the OS? It’s literally the most important (software) aspect of the whole thing

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        3 days ago

        You would care about (or at least pay attention to) the transmission if your car kept breaking down because of it. But unlike a car, on a computer you could relatively easy change out the OS with something else.

        As always, the analogy between cars and computers are not one to one.

        • Mr. Wobble@thelemmy.club
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          2 days ago

          I would not suddenly take up a deep interest in transmissions, their workings, their manufacturers, which types are mechanically superior, subscribe to a transmission subreddit, argue with strangers about which ones are best, etc…