Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 weeks ago

This thread if it was explained by Kayne West. Funny, but mega Slur warning

[-] BalderSion@real.lemmy.fan 1 points 3 weeks ago

I remember watching an interview with the CEO of SUN microsystems in the 90's argue that you didn't need to know how to run a nuclear power plant to use a light switch, and you shouldn't have to know how a computer works to use one.

I guess his vision came true, and we're mad about it?

[-] Sloogs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

Fella, the stuff Gen Z struggles with is the light switch.

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[-] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

How did we fail so hard? Where did we go wrong?

[-] missandry351@lemmings.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Expectation: these new generations are practically born with computers in their hands when they grow up they are going to create a new world so fast and develop new technologies

Reality: if tik tok doenst work they don’t know what else to do with their 1000+ euro smartphones

[-] jnod4@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

We're dumbing everything down. When I was a kid Imade my own tower defense game inside warcraft3 world editor, with custom models and everything. Everything was moddable, customisable. Now everything exists in walled gardens where you can't even switch anything

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[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Me trying to show a zoomed where a file is on the network. Me: "Open file explorer" Zoomer: "What?" Me: "Files..." Zoomer: "Huh?" Me: "Just click the folder." Zoomer: "Ohhhhhh"

Almost as bad as watching my boomer coworker open notepad and drag a file into it. Just double click or right click open with. Ahhhhh.

[-] Knightfox@lemmy.one 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A few years ago I saw an article that Gen Z struggled with file organization. In basic terms, search functions have gotten so good that the majority of Gen Z doesn't use file organization on computers or phones. When in a work setting they are confused when digital items need to be organized into a file structure. Part of the problem is that most of them have never had to use a real world filing system. Part of the problem is that they are only used to handling their own disorganized files. In a business setting it generally isn't acceptable to dump all your files into a local "Downloads" file and rely on the search function to locate mission critical files.

When the article I am referencing came out other people stated that they had experienced similar phenomena in the PC world. They remembered when soldering was an expected norm of PC building, but with the passage of time it was no longer necessary or expected.

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[-] ganbramor@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I was born in the 80's, I did IT bachelor's and then print design studies which used all of the Adobe suite and I genuinely don't understand what rotating a pdf means.

My first OS was DOS.

Edit my point is I'm sure I know how to, I just don't know what it means

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I am what you would call a boomer. But I do not only know how to rotate a PDF, I also know how to generate one from a number of sources with software I have written...

[-] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

You're a computer boomer, basically don't count. A lot of millennials, with no relation to tech, can use the computer at least for basic stuff. That can't be said about any other generation.

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[-] mcforest@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I actually thought I am part of this blessed generation that can use a computer. But rotating a PDF? That beats me.

Edit: In Okular it's actually easy to find this function. I was never looking for this for my whole life.

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[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

And they're almost as conservative as boomers too. Fucking shame.

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[-] oyo@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago

Let's be fair though. Adobe changes the Acrobat interface every two weeks for no reason. PDF has always been an absolute shitshow, super slow, walled garden format. After like 30 years it's still a 30 step process to add a note box with an arrow that looks half decent

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 0 points 3 weeks ago

So what this suggests to me is that zoomers are so up their own cell phones that they never bothered to learn how to use pepper computers. That almost funny. Mocking laughter is warring with weary head shaking in me.

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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 0 points 3 weeks ago

I used to know everything there was on 95 to windows 7 but things keep changing so I just stopped caring.

[-] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yep. Why bother learning when it won't work tomorrow. I miss software that was bought and didn't change, says the old man to the cloud.

And I'm pro learning but for most things I'm not a pro user. So my flow is learn something, think wow this is great I can do so much. Set it aside for weeks/months. Come back to it, download a huge update and and spend the time I had to work on it waiting. Come back again later and find out I need something else or whatever. Eventually it works but now I the thing I wanted to do has changed. Pretty much gave up on pcs years ago. Am looking for one for the first time in years because I actually want to try linux again.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

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.