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.

Their brains can only do one symbol at a time.
When you say "dup dup swap mul add add swap mul mul" they think "k * ((z + (y + (x * x))) * w)"