Fewer programmers interested in hardware?

I see far too many programmers these days who use macbooks and prebuilt desktops. They've never assembled a computer or installed a different OS. Why is this? I thought programmers were interested in tinkering with things. I feel more and more like I'm out of place when I talk about how I assemble and overclock computers and install GNU/Linux distros.

This is what happens when those idiots keep pushing their "learn to code" movement without forgetting that the majority of the population is basically computer-illiterate.

The same shit is happening with EEs, just look at tArduino and its followers. Suddenly everyone thinks they can build things when all they've done is buy some overpriced kiddie shit and read some instructions. You can teach a fucking monkey to push buttons, paste code, and connect things together and be poser EEsmakers and they won't know anything at all about how anything works.

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Abstraction considered harmful. Companies are taking advantage of it to oppress the people.