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.
I was going to complain, but you’re damned right.
Silence is golden.
The meh generation
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 :(
I know of one, and it’s my kid. And they’re just as frustrated as I am about how little their peers know about computers
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.
Depending on definitions, I’m either a millennial or gen-z. Some of my team mates are awesome and know everything there is to know about computers. Others have knowledge gaps that make me question whether they went to uni. They’re also the same people who commonly don’t know how to find answers to things. They’re also the people proclaiming the loudest about the greatness of Gippers
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.
No generally Gen z is not afraid of tech but doesn’t know how it works.
41 myself and the future scares me for too many reasons, this definitely being one of them.
I am Gen Z, I can copy paste commands from online forums into the terminal, then proceed to fuck shit up. 🫠
(Don’t ask me to type commands from memory, I’d rather use windows spyware than deal with command line torture)
This is how I am for the part (including most people who aren’t computer enthusiasts or CS degree holders). I know my limits on what I am willing to do with command lines because I don’t have time to memorize all that shit.
You just have to practice more! Though while I’m pretty good with computers Linux does still scare me a little too, I have a habit of poking around where I’m not supposed to and Linux is more than happy to let you break things
And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
Yep
We fix our own damn computers before the Millenials get out of bed.
The whole history of this meme is a tired Boomer-tier joke. It’s 9gag material at this point.
Ok but what about Gen X?
We could fix it too, but we don’t wanna.
We’re burned out. It’s time to pass the soldering iron.
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.
If you buy an arduino dev board it’ll come with the bootloader already installed, so you just install the ide, install the driver if you’:re usingc windows, plug in the board, press upload and you’re done?
They’re too tired for that too. They’re more of a “blow in the hole and jiggle it” people.
Napping. Wake me up when September ends.
Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.
gen x
You do realize Gen X were the ones who were building their own computers back in the late 80’s and all through the 90s and loading them with Windows 3.1 and the original flavors of Linux, on top of fostering the open source world everyone here relies upon? All before Millennials graduated from Jr High.
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.
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.
Tldr; you got your feelings hurt over a meme
Gen x doesn’t have feelings
They aren’t saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.
Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective,
The problem is their dates are off. Home Computers went mainstream in 1977 with the Apple II.
I’m a xennial or whatever you wanna call us and I can’t stand the generational cold war that takes place in our society
The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.
I agree with this person!
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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?
First introduction to Internet in late highschool or College means you’re a gen X.
You can keep still, or whatever, but frankly it doesn’t matter. You don’t matter. Your parents (Boomer’s) mortgaged your generations, and everyone since, future for a pointless capitalist nightmare.
Conversely, me and my whole family is dumb as fuck, every generation.
Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?
Go study a trade, ffs
Gen X here. If I cared what any of those age groups thought I would feel slighted.
Gen Z / alpha: “fix the computer? Do you mean the phone?”
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The difference between Gen X and Millennials is that at around age 35 (circa 2009) I started telling people, who were almost always friends of friends who wouldn’t actually hang out with me normally, that I charge $100 an hour. Millennials still do it for free…
I wouldn’t even suck dick that low… Why would I take less pay for something I DONT like to do???
Haha…fair enough. Honestly though, I suspect anything above free would have worked. Some people have absolutely no respect for other people’s time. Especially since I don’t “fix computers” for a living.
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Not all of Gen Z are tech illiterate. Some of us used computers before iPads and smartphones. I used Windows XP and 7 long before I ever got a smartphone.
Same here, but I’m a border generation (born in the late 90s)
So am I!
If they want to take over from my gen-X ass from doing everyone’s fixing shit, I’m all for it.
Just ask an AI to fix it.
YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS AN RTX 5090 SUPER RUNNING THE SKYNET CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE TO WORK PROPERLY.
Easy
There are people out there who would happily give AI all the power in the world to turn their skulls into a highway or a scammer access to their entire bank account just so they don’t have to read out an error and google it for themselves out of fear of technology or even speaking to anyone about technology.
Sort of like those people who would rather drive their car off of a cliff rather than ever hear words from a mechanic or check their own oil.
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.
