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I'm the opposite. I used to build computers. I've beat a bunch of cool video games over the last 40 years. I've used Windows for 30 years, Word for 25 years, Excel for 20 years. I started my smartphone journey in 2010 with Android (iPhone wasn't available where I lived for years after) and I did custom firmware, root, Xposed, all that shit.
I'm a Mac user at home and an iPhone user now, and I have a pretty basic job. My coworkers ask me why I don't work in IT. I say I don't want to hate computers. I keep it a hobby. I'm still a gamer. I'm good with Windows but I'm tired of Microsoft's shit. Apple does a couple things that annoys me. I know I could put Linux on my M-series Macs if I really wanted to. So far, I don't. If my Intel PCs didn't die, they'd be running Linux now. I didn't buy Macs just for the hell of it. I never wanna use another kind of laptop (though I suppose that could change), but for a desktop... I still like my Mac desktop, but I also wanna repurpose an old Dell workstation as a Linux server? But also I feel like my most tinkering days were behind me and I'd probably get hacked trying to do something clever.
I guess the tl;dr is, I got old, I got lazy, and I chose easy. We do get some cool tricks. So OP was kind of on this meme posting spree? I copied the links on my MacBook, pasted them into Safari on my iPhone (universal copy/paste is so useful!) and then sent the memes to my wife. Typing it all out I realise I have Telegram on my MacBook as well, but now I have the memes in my meme folder on my iPhone, so win/win?
You're pretty much the tech enthusiast in the meme.
Maybe in spirit? I have a friend who invited me to his place, he was out shopping, and he sent me a temporary key to open his front door. It stuck itself in Apple Wallet, and I used that to unlock his door like I was making a contactless payment. It expired after the one use. I thought that was cool.
I guess I'm partway there. Any Apple guy would be. I'm sure you CAN get Windows and Android machines to talk to one another, but with Apple, all your stuff is accessible from each computer. My iPhone can browse both the Macs and each Mac can browse the iPhone and the other Mac. Like, "it just works." Plus we have an Apple TV and it has all my digital media on it. It's pretty neat.
So yeah... guilty