I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I've theorized (and I'm sure I'm not the first one) that there is a narrow window of people who grew up in the late 90s and early 00s that are in the tech sweet spot in that if they used a lot of technology they had to learn how to troubleshoot it because it didn't just work. Today things are so stable it's reasonable to rarely need to learn how things work.

      • HouseWolf@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        As a 98 baby I feel this. I tried to get my hands on any piece of tech I could growing up and everything evolved so fast (but wasn't always reliable)

        But I got friends not much younger than me who will throw out perfectly good phones/laptops/etc over simple errors that couldn't be fixed by rebooting...

    • LongPigFlavor@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      My little brother has been glued to his tablet since he was 3. He goes to the same elementary school I used to go to, but they no longer use Windows desktop pc and instead they use Chromebooks. I remember learned how to use computers back in 4th and 5th grade, I learned how to use a browser, how to use a search engine, how to use a database, and how to use Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

      • keepcarrot [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        We had a bus that taught you how to touch type. I think it had a bunch of laptops in it

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      also, the way tablets and other tech is being pushed on school children. i've subbed at elementary schools where literally everything is done on tablets. no books or anything to write in, just tablets or chrome books. and the kids, despite spending their entire school days in front of a screen, have about the same tech understanding as my 90+ year old great grandmother

      It's that way at my district now, too. yea

      EDIT: I work at that district. Some federated liberals are downright desperate to vomit rage at Hexbears. debord-tired

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          I am a teacher.

          Foaming at the mouth and coming at me with pre-loaded prejudice isn't doing you any favors.