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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
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2 generations. Gen X and Millennials are both of the right age to properly understand computers.
To put a finer point on it, it specifically the younger Gen Xers and older Millennials. That’s the “one” generation this post describes.
I’ve trained a lot of 18-22 y/os in the last 10 years and they are fine. Let’s not become the boomers please…
Yeah, being dumb is hardware-agnostic. As some guy put it, “being stupid isn’t a big deal anymore; some of my best friends are stupid”.
It just stunlocks me a little bit as younger people have been around tech their whole life, unlike boomers, who were born before computers.“been around tech their whole life” more like they have a locked down phone, locked down game console and MAYBE a desktop computer. It’s too rounded out and consumer friendly now, you never have to peek under the hood.
The thing is most of us cant even rotate a pdf, but we do know how to learn it.
Boomers: analogue phones and rolodexes. The nerdy ones knew Morse Code, though.
Gen X: grew up with picture books on assembly language programming
Millennials: know how to use Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Perhaps can unfuck Windows Registry keys if needed.
GenZ: “What’s a file?”
it depends on the person. some zoomers are great with tech, hardware and software. others aren’t. same goes for every generation. this reeks of the “haha let’s shit on the younger generations” millennials have been mad about for years
Yeah I suspect what’s happening is that plenty of boomers were actually just bad at tech but they got to use the excuse that they didn’t grow up with it. Any gen z people that are bad at tech don’t have that excuse so it seems like they’re stupid, when in reality there have always been stupid people or people who just aren’t interested.
Correction: there are 10 generations that know technology inside and out. IYKYK.
The original joke as I heard it was:
There are 10 types of people:
- Those who know binary
- Those who don’t
Binary is Base-2 math, meaning that the highest number in any place is 1. So 10 means 2 in Base-10 math.
What is this referencing?
I just aged 20 years reading that joke.
I think you mean you aged 00010100 years
My son types with his pointers… he turns 14 this month, and has already learned how to type in school. 🤦🏼♂️ Types exactly like my dad, only minus the thick glasses.
Uh, if he’s your son, you might be able to teach him? Like, without my parents encouraging it, I don’t think I’d have learned half as much about computers as I did in my childhood/teens.
Have you met a 13 year old? What I say must always, and I can not stress this enough, ALWAYS be wrong.
