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submitted 4 weeks ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/memes@lemmy.ml

screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[-] Rift5899@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 weeks ago

One friend of mine told that he read once that kids these days doesn't even know how to create a folder (or directory), is that true?

[-] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

Do you know how to create a directory on your phone? Lots of kids have never used a desktop/laptop, just phones and tablets.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 4 weeks ago
[-] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

I mean, so do I, but it's not something I ever needed to do on a phone.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, files, and hamburger menu at top right, new folder

[-] SoulWager@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

You mean you don't open the terminal and use mkdir?

[-] notgold@aussie.zone 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Too many letters. md for me ๐Ÿคช

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 weeks ago

That can change depending on your file manager, and many OSs do not present the file manager app anywhere but the app list by default, if they even have one.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago

So our IT guy sent a training memo for a task. Step 1, 2, 3, etc. The one step was go to folder /User, then go to folder yourusername. A young guy emailed back " there is no folder called yourusername".

I explained to IT, some of these people have never navigated a folder structure and don't realize Yourfoldername is meant to be replaced with their own name.

[-] notgold@aussie.zone 8 points 4 weeks ago

I have this at work with technical people. It's ever so frustrating.

[-] black0ut@pawb.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

It is true, and I've seen it myself. At first I refused to believe, but sadly we're already at that state.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was showing a co-op how to do something last year and told them to navigate through our department drive into whatever folder we were looking at.

They couldn't do it. They had somehow managed to get to the department drive in file explorer, but then completely fell apart when I narrated the names of the folders to go down into. Like I'd say "Go into 'desks and tables'" or whatever and I'd watch them drag their cursor past the Ds, past the Es, and then just click on something completely different. Like their brain just stopped working. It took us like 2 minutes to get less than 10 folders deep.

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