Zoomers & Boomers are the same
Zoomers & Boomers are the same
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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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...
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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.
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Idk, most likely its region/class dependant because I had dumb phones, some very early androids, and an Athlon 64 3000+ pc and I'd call myself a zoomer
edit: before that I had some ancient family pc but it's only relevance is getting me entertained, didn't tinker with it or anything. Also my old phone's 4.4 android was my favorite because it was polished enough while still letting you do dumb shit with it
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I was born in 04, I work in tech so it's definitely dependant on a lot of factors, I think the biggest being siblings/parents that are into tech. My oldest brother was into tech so he taught me a lot of piracy stuff from a young age.
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Can confirm, had a similar upbringing
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Younger millennials down have had their exposure be primarily gardenwalled, locked down equipment. Tablets and smartphones and apps, oh my! The sort of thing that discourages casual exploration and experimentation.
They are fuckin' skin masters though.
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Boomers have been seeing changes in communications, culture, and technology as revolutionary as anything in the last 20 years, for their entire lives. Things didn't start getting wild just recently. It has been a romp for the last 200 years.
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I am a 30 yr old boomer in uni with 18 year olds and they are mostly fine. We are learning programming so the base qualification is to not dumb with computers. BUT My teacher friends are supporting OPs screencap where children do not understand computers at all. Theres plenty of tales of students being asked to log into a 15 minute online test and entire lesson is spent teaching them how to log in one by one. The issue is they click the biggest and flashiest button and quit once they discover it does not lead them where they want to go.
There is plenty more evidence that the next generation is unable to handle anything more complex than most popular apps on phone. Is it really surprising when everything has been designed to just work and be streamlined so you don't have to troubleshoot anymore.
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"30 yr old boomer" ....not without a time machine.
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The issue is they click the biggest and flashiest button and quit once they discover it does not lead them where they want to go.
Anyone that ever pirated anything learns real quick that those are the buttons you avoid like the plague
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I hope anyone who uses Google without an adblocker learns that very quick too.
Bait ads is the biggest attack vector to bring users to install malware.
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They don't learn, despite phone ads using the X button (the one supposed to close the ad) to open the fucking play store page
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I legit have an acquaintance 15 years my junior regularly begging me for the the best torrent sites. And they're pretty savvy for their generation
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