But I’m Generation Z and I have to update my mom’s Linux Mint laptop because she can’t pay attention when I show her.
I wrote a shell script my mom just has to click on to run the updates and she still can’t figure it out. The filename is literally “ClickHereToRunUpdatesMom.sh”
I’m also Gen Z
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
Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.
TIL I’m a millenial?
Here’s your regulation issue avocado toast and collapsed economy. Oh, I see you’ve already got one of those. Welcome aboard!
Great guy know is an actual boomer, grew up in Canada and then London after the war (dad was an MP). That dude took a passenger ship from Canada to UK and then back.
Was in Jolly ol’ England at the right to see the Beatles before they were the Beatles.
He was doing things with palm pilots and computers that no senior citizen should have been doing if this ageist shit was in anyway accurate
If they want to take over from my gen-X ass from doing everyone’s fixing shit, I’m all for it.
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So very true.
Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!
Shhh - let the Millennials do it, they need the validation, and most of us need a nap.
Shh, we get to be anonymous, tech literate and be able to buy our own houses.
I literally just fixed a zoomers laptop last night. Lol
I’m GenX, I bought my first PC in 1988, and made a living in part, setting up LANs, back when knowing anything at all about computers could get you a job. GenX early adopters taught millennials computers.
Lost gen got all that kung-fu.
Gen X here. If I cared what any of those age groups thought I would feel slighted.
Bingo.
What I see is the same for most every generation. You arrive at adulthood and look around judging all the older folks as being clueless. You fail to solve all the worlds problems while you still know it all. Then you get a job and wise up. The ones who never realize they don’t know shit are the ones who cause all the trouble.
Sage words. Couldn’t be more apt if I tired. Yeah. As I e gotten older I have less patience/tolerance tolerance to suffer ignorance, arrogance, and incompetence.
Though i’m the very tail end of genX and a “computer expert”, I pretty much think that the millennial generation being the only generation was all part of a solid de-education plan. At the rate we’re going Its only a matter of time where the tech we have today is forced to be only approved OS, controlled, monitored and IT capable people who know how to bypass will be arrested for violating the law.
The water is starting to get warm…
It wont even be that hard. Take their gibbity away now and a lot of people (young and old) will be helpless. Or, what will actually happen, minorly change gibbity outputs to fulfill your political agenda to become the first trillionaire, all the while the population doesn’t know theyre being fed trash.
As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.
And a younger one…
Yeah, this is more young X and old millennial. Xers born in the late 60s-early 70s and millennials born in the late 80s-90s don’t know shit.
I’ve heard us (young Xs and old millennials) described as the organ trail generation. We grew up along side the tech so we understand it better than your average person from before or after.
Is this a black market body parts game? Drug wars meets Oregon Trail?
I’m not sure what their comment said before they fixed it, but if it was “The Organ Trail”, that game exists. It’s basically “The Oregon Trail”, but with zombies.
Yeah, I went back and changed it to a strikethrough to avoid more confusion.
I’m not sure why people are down voting this. I agree 100%. The most techie people I have ever known are part of what you called “the organ trail generation” (I love this term).
People always get pissey about these generation things. It’s not about some people being better than others. There was a period of time where being able to use a computer meant being able to take a tabula rasa machine, install an os using a bunch of disks and a large manual, and figure out how to fix anything without the internet. There was also a period of time where home computers were becoming common. Those two periods overlapped and created a group of non-professional people mostly (MOSTLY) born between 75ish and 85ish that are much better able to use and troubleshoot tech than people born before or after.
But you always end up attracting a bunch of douches saying “I was born in (whenever) and I have a degree in (whatever) and I know more than people blah blah blah.” Yeah, I’m not talking about professionals or hardcore hobbyists, I’m taking about regular jerkoffs that had to figure this shit out without specialized education or the internet. It was a unique period that created a group a people different than what came before or after. No judgement, it just is. For some reason certain people take offense to that.
Instead of “the Oregon Trail generation” we should be called the “I read the damn manual” generation.
Oregon Trail.
Thank you, autocorrect strikes again.
The oregano trail is lined with spicy meat-a-balls.
Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, etc. are marketing bullshit that need to stop being used in the common lexicon.
Agree… Cringe.
Sauce? I just make stuff and opine freely. I think none of that is bullshit, but I’ll debate it on a case-by-case.
Oh, but not “Boomer” so you can still say “Ok, Boomer?”
They should just be numbered. From best to worst, so Millenials would be 1 and Boomers would be like… 6? 7? How many generations have we had 🤔
Ok but what about Gen X?
Napping. Wake me up when September ends.
We could fix it too, but we don’t wanna.
We’re burned out. It’s time to pass the soldering iron.
They’re too tired for that too. They’re more of a “blow in the hole and jiggle it” people.
I tried to get into the whole Arduino thing as a Gen Xer. I couldn’t believe the complexity and back story you need to know before getting started. Totally baffled by the whole thing. Just give me a processor, some memory and a serial port. Why do I need an IDE, drivers, a bootloader, fifteen different kinds of whatevers I don’t understand, yes, I am burned out, where are the Doritos?
You can just install and invoke the compiler directly, and you only need a driver if you’re on windows and using the bootloader to program it, and you don’t need a bootloader if you have an ISP (programmer) so you can flash it directly, and you don’t need anything else though one of the main reason people use Arduino is for the libraries
I just wanted to generate a simple pulse from a switch press. Needless to say since I needed a breadboard anyway, I just popped in a 74LS123 with a resistor and a capacitor. I couldn’t even begin to understand what I needed to get that pulse from an Arduino. And I used to program PICs bare metal. It’s like the complexity traded places. On the PIC, the tools and process are dead simple. But writing the code for the little monsters required understanding every opcode and peripheral and how they interact. It looks like on the Arduino, I can just type sleep(5000) but to set up the whole thing to get there is where the complexity lies.
