It is cringe to buy niche gear and learn obscure in-group terminology because you are trying to short-cut through enjoying the hobby itself directly to enjoying the status and acceptance that non-hobbyists enjoy.
But "fake it until you make it" is part of life too and everyone wants to belong and to be taken seriously. You can't always just "do the hobby for fun" if you want to be social since anxious intermediates whose own output is still crap will gate-keep.
If you can, find hobbies that bring you joy and do them alone, free from the influence of too much right and wrong, at least in the first stages.
In the context of terminal emulators, idk, do something like learn AWK purely for personal enjoyment. You may not have the flashiest dotfiles or color schemes or whatever, but you'll be able to do arcane stuff in the terminal that will give you confidence you belong and others will be amazed by.
But "fake it until you make it" is part of life too and everyone wants to belong and to be taken seriously. You can't always just "do the hobby for fun" if you want to be social since anxious intermediates whose own output is still crap will gate-keep.
If you can, find hobbies that bring you joy and do them alone, free from the influence of too much right and wrong, at least in the first stages.
In the context of terminal emulators, idk, do something like learn AWK purely for personal enjoyment. You may not have the flashiest dotfiles or color schemes or whatever, but you'll be able to do arcane stuff in the terminal that will give you confidence you belong and others will be amazed by.