I see a lot of Millennials using G-drive instead of torrent, actually.
I was barely aware of the existence of pirate streaming services until they started cracking down on them. I torrent everything and run my own media server. (Millennial)
I just don't use torrents anymore, I use xdcc. I used to torrent, but there is so much ransomware, ISP threats, malware, ect. I still use torrents for official things like Linux Isos or Gimp though. Gen z here
Teach those that dont know and continue to seed. 🏴☠️🛶
generation "doesn't want to deal with petabytes of hard drive bullshit just to watch a show"
/side eyes dvd collection
How could I possibly know a streaming site is illegal?
Streaming sites are illegal? How could I have known that??
Phones (and tablets) changed the way people use devices. It's neither better or worse imo, I use both methods.
Idk, being born in the early 2000s didn't make torrenting any harder. Dare I say, it was the opposite: in the 10s, when I got into all this this, there already was a bunch of well-established trackers with tons of content one could use without fear of downloading a piece of malware instead of a new shiny game, for example.
This is 100% not true as I have personally had several times where I got ransomware (though still the thing I wanted to download somehow?) in late 2000s / 2010s. Hasn't happened a single time since, even downloading the most sketchy torrents. For a lot of younger people, if they want to torrent something they're not looking at trackers or much of anything, they just want the download. Windows defender used to be complete trash at preventing viruses so you'd need to know to download things like malwarebytes and be a lot more wary of what you download, and even if the torrent is 100% legit you'd have random registry/driver/software issues. Now these issues are rare unless you're downloading some custom software or a much older game.
The one thing I would say was a lot easier back then is it would say "xyz free download" and it actually would be the thing itself instead of random bloatware.
Now do generation Alpha :]
Generational wars doesn't do anyone any favors.
Yeah and let's not pretend that everyone back in 2002 was eMuling or torrenting and cracking videos games. I knew so many people who failed at ripping a CD to MP3 or copying it with a CD burner.
What war. It's an acknowledgement of a historic shift. One generation received an education another didn't out of necessity.
The subsequent ones need to fill the gap if they want to keep the knowledge. It's been made available. Fuck we're trying to pass it on.
I'm fucking using it even if you don't
Acknowledging differences is not "war".
as a high schooler with a special interest in computers, it's genuinely surprising how poor most of my peers computers skills are. most of my peers don't even know the very basics of folder structures.
also unrelated, let's all love lain
folder
Directory?
fair. Thank you for the correction ILikeBoobies
special interest
poor skill of peers
(I'm totally with you though)
lol I love that xkcd, but yes it absolutely applies
I could swear there was a wildly similar version of this particular comic that was even more on point with reference to assembly call codes.
there is, I tried to find it but I can't seem to. there's lots of versions of it for different interests, I love xkcd
Twenty years ago when I was 13, I started doing web stuff. This was back when everything was super simple, so everything to get a webserver up was super manual. I'll mention port forwarding at my current job and there's this slice of people that are 28-40 years old that know what I'm talking about.
I love doing homelab stuff! it seems like at my school either you don't know what a port is, or you actively maintain 3 web servers (the latter being the significant minority, with a total of like 3 of us)
I'm slightly younger than that even, currently finishing up my master's but have been working as a backend dev for a couple of years.
I've learned an order of magnitude more about networking from just being in the vicinity of my girlfriend (who is a network technician) than from uni, and it's definitely already paying off.
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