Joking aside I do actually worry about how superficial technical knowledge is becoming.
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.
We just need to integrate conversational AI into everything, so people never have to understand tech or learn to use it
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People these days couldnt even manually resolve an IRQ conflict!
Millennials have technical skills, Gen Z has basic trades skills, big part of Boomers built their own houses. Every generation has its base skill that eventually becomes obsolete.
Oh it’s well fucked already.
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.
I watched a gen alpha iPad kid play a Nintendo DS recently. He held it on his lap and only mashed his thumbs on all the controls, fingers splayed wide. Raged like hell at it. A piece of me died.
See I don’t entirely blame young people here. I downloaded a linux distro from their torrent mirror last year and my ISP started emailing me literal threats about piracy laws. It’s the corporations.
(Tho I am pretty young myself for lemmy standards tbf)
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.
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
Hey, if only we could blame the generation in charge of raising Alpha and making sure they knew how to tech?
Fuck. Us? Really?
my mom made sure that we learned how to type effectively, and goddamn was she ever right about that. it amazes me how many people cannot type quickly on a keyboard.
Whelp, looks like PCs will become a thing of the past at this rate, no use denying it
Already there. Ask any major website what their user agent stats are. Amazon is something like 90% mobile. I can’t even fathom doing any serious shopping via app.
They’re already trying to price consumers out of the computer/parts market so that we have to rent them. It’s not helping that so much tech is going to data centers instead of the consumer market
this is just an accurate fact
Millennials helped tech destroy the personal computer and computer literacy because they insisted on flocking to these stupid iphones and shiny apps instead of doing anything real and with their own ability.
Trends are cyclical
Gen alpha grew up using tablets/smartphones pretty early, while they may not have had access to a PC. Seems like a failure of the educational system. Boomers just refuse to learn new shit.
My kid has “tech class”, where I (wrongly) assumed they would learn about computers and the internet, how they work and how to use them. Nope, they just learned how to use Microsoft Teams.
Learning new shit gets genuinely harder as you age. With how fast technology changes, I don’t think you can really blame them for it.
I’d like to think I’d keep up with technology in my old age, but who knows. I’m not even old and I’m already so damn jaded.
They are like 4 tbf no?
Most definitions use 2011-2013 as starting range for Gen Alpha, so the older Gen Alpha kids are 13-15
hell, even zoomers cant tell the difference between windows and chromeos
