• hedders@fedia.io
    7·
    6 months ago

    Gen X - who, let’s face it, wrote most of this stuff - gets forgotten again.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      6 months ago

      That’s cool. We’re used to being forgotten and this way nobody will ask us to fix their computer.

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      By that logic, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak were Boomers so Boomers all know how to fix computers.

      Let’s face it, “generational” assumptions are all too coarse to be valuable - and are probably just another way to separate and divide us all so we stop thinking about how to take down the ruling classes.

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        My dad is close to 80. He’s been PC savvy since the super early 1980s and he still is, although he is stuck in Windows because he’s a monster in the astrophotography world and most of his software isn’t supported in Linux etc. I dated a girl in college whose dad was one of the founding creators of the internet. Unlike Al Gore lol.

        I taught my younger brother how to program in basic and pascal in the 80s. He’s now a super successful programmer. I’m pretty poor but I like to build fix and upgrade people’s computers as a hobby. I am gen x.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
      0·
      6 months ago

      Eh. Genx understood how to work a VCR and deal with the rat’s nest of cables behind the TV

      Computers are millennials

      • robolemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        Utter BS. I’m on the old end of Gen X and I’m still building PCs for people and troubleshooting their shit when it breaks. I have yet to meet a much younger person who can do it as well.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    To my fellow Gen X’ers…

    Shhh!

    Let someone else deal with the inept on the other end of the phone. Be happy we’re being ignored again.

  • AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 months ago

    i figured gen z would start fixing my computer once i hit my current age (41); turns out i dont know any gen z’s that understand how computers work.

    im really tired of being everyone’s tech support :(

      • AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world
        2·
        6 months ago

        i did the world a favor and decided to not have kids. sadly, this also means i am unable to hand down a generation’s worth of computer knowledge, heh.

        • Ænima@lemmy.zip
          1·
          6 months ago

          Mentorships exist and a lot of kids are hungry for knowledge. We can help the ones that want to learn, but maybe aren’t given a lot of opportunities.

    • Korne127@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      It’s funny how bubbles can change so much. In my personal experience, most Gen Z people know their way around computers and how to fix stuff. I regularly help my millennial sister with stuff like that.

      • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
        01·
        6 months ago

        No generally Gen z is not afraid of tech but doesn’t know how it works.

    • [deleted] in lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Left out of the meme, not left out of being called to fix shit.

      We truly are the middle child of generations, forgotten until we are needed.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Let’s be fair, we millennial know how to fix stuff because stuff still can be fixed. We can glance back one generation away and learn about how stuff work back then, and also learn how to fix those stuff. Nowadays stuff aren’t meant to be fixed, (late) gen z doesn’t have thing to start tearing apart and learn about the inner working of stuff, because it’s all glued/snapped together, with the culture being once broke just toss.

  • Brahvim@lemmy.kde.socialisiZulu
    1·
    5 months ago

    I’m actually, genuinely shocked by the ageism in such debates every single time. There’s no such thing as age-based incompetence, TBH. There are sound people for every field available everywhere. Why do we have to assume this? Every generation has at least a few people who are competent in their field, even in computing. It’s more important that the literate of us unite to end illiteracy and stop injustice performed in the name of technology. This, honestly, is just making fun of each other, for apparently no sound reason. And I’m talking about the comments, not the meme. I might, or not, get some sour disagreements, or straight-up very bitter replies for arguing even this, …and again, I ask: Do we reeaaally have to do this?

    Technology too has a supposed duty of bringing people together…!

  • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.org
    1·
    6 months ago

    There are some parts of Gen Z that can actually tear stuff apart and actually fix systems, but those are the nerds (which also includes me) that care enough to actually learn stuff. The majority is quite tech illiterate

    • Localhorst86@feddit.org
      1·
      6 months ago

      Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Pc gaming is kinda bringing gen z and alpha back to the light. RGB is how the get you and before you know it you’re watching pewdepie’s guide to installing Linux and custom android roms.

    I’m quite optimistic about the computing future tbh! With LLM helping with troubleshooting the field should be much more accessible for anyone willing to learn.

  • Guidy@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.

    I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.

    My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.

    tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.

    • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.

      My grandpa was a robotics engineer and thus knew how to use a PC quite well but watching him operate Windows 10 basically without utilizing any tools that came after DOS was bizarre.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        To Microsoft’s credit, they have historically been very good about ensuring backwards compatibility. There are a few notable exceptions, but for the most part you can treat Windows as if it is DOS, and it still mostly works.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      01·
      6 months ago

      Actually agree.

      By age I would be late gen-Z / almost gen-A. I grew up in rural middle-east and was introduced to home internet for first time in highschool(2020)

      Where would I fall?