Back in 1980, a Radio Shack TRS-80 computer kept me up until the wee hours as I wrote a program to make the equivalent of a Pong game. The game was boring as hell, but the idea of controlling an electronic device was empowering and exciting.

It’s been mostly downhill since. As computers got more powerful and complex and useful and finally vital, they gradually began to rule us rather than the other way around. Today, many of us interact with computers more than people (and our human interactions are often done through a computer). It’s led me to a love-hate relationship with computers that fuels a desire to disconnect, if only for a few hours now and then. I want fewer electronic devices in my life, not more. As a result, rather than being tech-savvy I’ve become tech-tolerant, and sometimes tech-intolerant.

I had no idea until today, however, that I’ve become a Lackluster Veteran.

That’s the label for me spat out by a new online Pew Internet and American Life Project quiz.

Some 8 percent of my fellow Americans are also Lackluster Veterans of technology. We “have the necessary gadgets for the information age,” but the “wealth of information and communication technology does not translate into particularly high levels of satisfaction about gadgets’ impacts on [our] lives.”

I’m not surprised that I didn’t fit into the top category (Omnivores, who use gadgets voraciously). And though I don’t like the sound of my new label, I’m glad not to be an Indifferent.

The quiz is here.