• guldukat@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    On a side note, I would regularly get my silent generation grandmother to fix something on my smartphone when they first started getting popular. I miss her.

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      8 hours ago

      We just need to integrate conversational AI into everything, so people never have to understand tech or learn to use it

      Tap for spoiler

      /s

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      12 hours ago

      It’s always been that way. Even most people who used the internet “way back when” have no clue how it actually functions. Terms like DNS and IPv4 are vaguely familiar concepts at best outside of professional or hobbyist circles.

      There’s nothing inherently wrong with that either. There’s too much stuff for any one person to know. You learn the stuff that interests you and ignore the rest, which hopefully means somebody is interested in all of it. That’s why it’s good that there’s all different kinds of people out there.

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    13 hours ago

    There’s a push by younger boomers to change the name to “Jones” apparently.

    Everyone just thought the same thing in response to that too.

  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    So I was on the internet in 1995 and was visiting BBS’s for about 10 years before that so I’m good with computers. I feel for my parents and the young ones because I’m a basic when it comes to phones and tablets, if shit goes beyond touching what I want to do I’m full on lost