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How many people are smart enough to open an issue on GitHub but stupid enough to run code from a password-protected file in a random Mediafire link?
GitHub is many things nowadays. Some people use it sort of like a blog where they can easily post long pages of text, sometimes it's the first thing that shows up in the search results when you search for a computer/phone problem.
I'm gonna sound old here but the younger generations are in general less computer literate than they were back in my day, and a lot of people have no qualms about downloading and running random exe's from discord or mediafire.
Yes, I think you are right. I think it's an attention span issue.
The reaaon tech literacy has dropped so much is actually because we've gotten too good at UX. You don't need to know nearly as much to do most things with computers now, so most people don't bother learning about how to properly use a computer anymore. Setting up an email address or a router or a website has gotten significantly less complicated so the average person can do it without needing to learn any new skills. Hell, phones are so streamlined that most people probably don't even realize their phone has a file browser.
I'd argue we haven't gotten good with UX, we've gotten fancy with it. No way in hell many of the current popular stuff is good UX. But shiny sells
Edit: spelling because typing on phones is shit