Cloud SaaS services are often extremely heavily marketed, too, often with a VC-backed ad spend pool. That’s difficult if impossible to compete with.

There’s also an upcoming generation that doesn’t know what a filesystem is which also doesn’t help matters.

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> There’s also an upcoming generation that doesn’t know what a filesystem is which also doesn’t help matters.

This is why I sometimes think it's hopeless. For a while there -- 90s into the 2000s -- we were building something called "computer literacy." Then the phones came out and that stopped completely. Now we seem to have inverted the old paradigm. In that era people made jokes about old people not being able to use tech. Today the older people (30s onward) are the ones who can use tech and the younger people can only use app centric mobile style interfaces.

The future is gonna be like: "Hey grandpa, can you help me figure out why my wifi is down?"

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		I know some of us technically inclined millennials intend to make a point of (or are already in the process of) ensuring that their kids are computer-literate. I’m not a parent but should that change I would certainly plan to. Whether or not that gets passed down to the grandkids or not is out of our control, but gotta do what you can right?

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