• Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works. I work in IT support and it can honestly be a tossup sometimes if the person who doesnt know how to clear their cache is a boomer or not.

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      1 month ago

      Oh no, does this mean Gen X are going to be the wisened graybeards that holds arcane knowledge and seemly executes feats of magic when related to technology?

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        X and the millennials both had to deal with computers that were computers, it’s the people that grew up in the smart phone/tablet era that have no idea what to do in front of an actual computer…

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          My litmus test is: “Have you tried Linux?”

          Even if they just used a live cd for curiosity, it means they know enough about computers to grasp the concepts that make them versatile, and were exploring around the net enough to read about it.

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    It’s gonna be really funny when all us millenials die and the tech infrastructure evaporates.

    What age do we think they’ll be set back to? Pre industrial? Bronze?

    My prediction seems extreme but don’t forget that while books continue to exist, the average adult born after 2000 would rather die than read one.

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      It won’t evaporate, there are plenty of IT folks among youth.

      It doesn’t make sense to characterize users by age brackets - it’s not that millenials are predominantly well-versed.