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Computers have been dumbed down and simplified for the masses. When I was a kid a computer did not cooperate until you raised your voice.

I think Zoomers need a generational divide in their generation, tbh. In my experience, older Zoomers are intelligent, capable, motivated, and largely leftist. For some unknown reason though, younger Zoomers are ignorant, prudish, too easily contented, and weirdly conservative. I have yet to understand what happened to cause the divide, and I can't point to any stats or evidence to support this belief, but anecdotally I have noticed this trend within my own life and spheres of influence.

I can:

• Accomplish damn near anything from a command line
• Write machine code
• Remember a fairly broad swath of special character altcodes without looking them up
• Disassemble damn near any computer or other machine, and stand a good chance of putting it back together

But also:

• Use modern programming languages, including object oriented paradigms
• Actually read what is on my screen and comprehend it, including error messages
• Understand and operate any arbitrary interface without having to have it explained to me by rote

Behold my mixture of skills, and tremble.

Gen Z is not the same thing as Gen Alpha. Gen Z grew up on PC.

Y'all shuda been born around '74 to '94.

There should be a class where they force you to install arch Linux without the automated install script and force people to learn how an OS works, or even make them do a Gentoo installation. You only pass it if you get to a fully functioning PC with a web browser and desktop environment

The number of people in this thread stumped by the “rotate a PDF” comment, even what it means at all, while a smartphone has been 95-100% of their “computer” usage in their lives.

lol did you get this from whoever posted it an hour earlier? Or did you just both get it from the same place?

Let me guess: they're talking about Millennials, and are entirely forgetting about Gen X once again.

It'll depend on their hobbies. PC gamers will know this stuff, or at least how to figure it out.

The amount of my students that wrote the whole email in the subject line is crazy. At first I thought it was a mistake or something. But there are sooo many...

They also don't know what a file browser/explorer is. As soon as the download notification is gone, the file doesn't exist anymore.

Giving files proper names? Unheard of!

in today’s edition of "why are the kids I raised so damn incompetent?"

i long for a day where people understand that it’s not the ipad kid’s fault they were given a tablet at age 2

We got a new kid around 19 working at our office for processing data and I hate how true this is. The amount of times I've had to say "No, you have to double click to open folders" is entirely too many. Either that or "You have to actually right click on the icon you want to copy you can't just click anywhere on the screen."