Gen Z is getting computer illiterate, too. Apparently some STEM profs have to tell them how to change directories or see if they downloaded files to their desktop or documents folder. iPad generation didn't get the benefit of having to really fuck around to get anything to work half the time with the most god-awful GUIs you could think of if you were lucky to start with a GUI. You basically just had Gen X and Millennials have the "Digital Native" perk be a buff and everyone after gets the debuff version.
I only know because my dad is a computer nerd and has been training me on the art of building computers and related stuff for years but i get why people don't know how to do it like when i got internet for the place i'm living now i didn't have to do a thing the tech came over instaled the modem and done like no extra settings needed
my dad is a PE teacher in brazil so he did not have to deal with computers at work for a while, and he used to help with the school radio so trully a man who owns a lot of random hardware. it is a Good hobby for dads , also i get a lot of old spare hardware, sometimes my mother makes him clean up for space so i recently i set up a bluetooth sound system in my room with 5 big speakers and a subwoofer
It was pretty bad even in our time. I remember teaching fellow students that you could do equations in excel instead of using the calculator and manually typing it in.
It is a lot of fun flying a DOS prompt and watching them look at the DIR command like it's arcane hacker wizardry.
Remember some people complaining that boomers were writing like Gen Z when they've always been writing the same way. Between computer literacy, writing style and mom jeans, I have conclusive proof that Gen Z are simply boomers in disguise.
sweet, i need this IT job until we dismantle this bullshit.
Heaven forbid any of this shit be accessible for older people. Critical support to our boomer comrades against Google
It's not that it's unaccessible, it's that companies like Google and Microsoft push you towards using shittier, less usable options because it allows them to control your experience, sell more data and ads, and discourage you from poking around in general. Older people don't have the time to poke around and figure out all this often times, so ironically free software like Linux is easier for them to use.
I was talking to my mom about installing linux after wiping my laptop, and she was just aghast at the idea, cuz shes worried about me bricking it. Im gnna do it anyway, fuck u maaaaaaaa :penguin-dance:
Older people don’t have the time to poke around and figure out all this often times
??? Old people have nothing but time
If I could die anytime between lunch and 10 years from now I sure as shit am not wasting any time fucking around with my devil box that's what my grandkids are for I ALREADY PAID MY DUES TO SOCIETY, FUCK YOU
A lot of it is very accessible. Lots of research goes into making it accessible, I think the only part of it all that is (deliberately) not accessible is the cookie pop-ups, etc
etc etc etc etc etc
Kinda my point. Shit gets redesigned all the time with no regard for how long it takes for someone to get used to the tech, or even for the tech get used to itself. Whether its Microsoft with ANOTHER version of windows that breaks everyones GPUs and costs more money. I dont feel like punching down on poor boomers, we'll be the same way if youre lucky enough to get that old and Google is still making shit. Time is a flat circle :rust-darkness:
Did you get yelled at by a boomer over a service hotline? Thats what we could avoid if people were more technically literate, which wont happen of you add a new "accessible" features every two years. I assume google assistant works the way it does so it can funnel people DIRECTLY to the google search engine. Google profits off of boomer incompetence, why would they make things easier for the sake of making things easier unless it gives them more money. I guess to me its more akin to swindling old people, then lettings call center employees deal with the shit. Sucks for everyone except Google
exactly, thats why I say critical support. Make google hurt, not your papa :deng-stoned:
Like, if you know what you're doing why did you call tech support?
I have to call my ISPs tech support all the time because they constantly fuck up shit on their end. It takes a few minutes everytime to convince them I actually know what I'm talking about. Like mother fucker I've been building computers since before you were born, I know how to read stack overflow as well as you, just fix yo shit.
Oh yes, now, imagine how digital marketing can use this for evil, because they do.
Did you know 28% of "One-click-buy"s are accidental transactions? Fun huh?
The part where they get angry is where I start thinking about childhood lead exposure
I feel like a boomer because I think I do this and the only way to figure out what this is talking about is asking questions that would make me sound even more like a boomer.
IDK PHONES MAN! I only got a smartphone like 2 years ago. I've built my own computers for decades though.
the one thing i can always be grateful for is that my dad is really into computers so i never had to do tech support for my family, it feels like i have dodged a bullet everytime he is complaining about a uncle being barelly aware of how to use a computer in family dinners
I feel like there are pros and cons, because I got away with a lot online since my parents knew nothing about computers. Of course it meant I had to learn a lot on my own lol
there is big connection with the fact that the only social media i use is twitter and the fact that my older family does not use twitter,
computers are satans instruments, smartphones doubly so. no one should have to learn to use one.
rocks were never meant to learn numbers
years of computing and no use found for calculators smarter than an abacus
also generational analysis is a mind virus, i'll say it again and again
Computer HMIs have been going backwards for the last 10 years. I blame the iPhone. It fucked up everything.
