Also forgot to say:

The reason I do these posts is not necessarily I expect anyone to jump up and do it, though yeah, that would be great (I try to do topics I think people on my flist would be interested in). What I want is to demystify the process enough that when someone does want to do something--maybe something that I've never talked about--they're not hit with 'what the hell is this bullshit I can't do this' but are able to pause and try and do a mental breakdown of what they're seeing or know it's possible (though yeah, it's not and never easy to do).

Because honestly, a lot of explanations are needlessly complicated, ridiculously minimal, oblique, use way too much jargon, or assume way too much about the reader's pool of knowledge and often manage more than one of those or all at the same time. And sometimes--like the UHD page--it's overwhelming, which is really unavoidable when you want to do what they want; get you a working drive that you won't brick. I've read enough in the forums that while yes, how they present the information is not unlike throwing a brick in your face, that's also the goal so users will slow the fuck down and read every word before they get to the 'bricked my drive, why' stage. (And in the forums, people are still bricking their drives by doing exactly what the post says--sometimes many times--not to do.

That UHD page hit me like a freight train and I knew most of it.

So thank you for that. I'm a jumper, head first into this kind of thing; failure or success, that's fun for me, I like the learning process itself almost more than the thing I'm learning to do (sometimes, actually, I like the learning more). Some people want to do the thing but having to make so many guesses and googling (and just taking a leap) is utter misery, and why should anyone have to be miserable first to do the fun thing?

So it always seemed reasonable that someone who likes to do it headfirst would come back and make it fun for people who might want to do the thing but would like a a better roadmap and a clearer idea of what is actually happening.

There were a lot of times early on where I would have killed for a straightforward, in ordinary language, on a single page or at least a single thread or website explanation of this Totally Simple Easy Thing I Want to Do and not have to google and guess and take pieces of ten forum posts in ten locations to piece together a working 'maybe' and then trial and error from there. Sometimes, you just want to do the damn thing.