Only one generation knows how to fix tech...
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Thank you, autocorrect strikes again.
The oregano trail is lined with spicy meat-a-balls.
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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.
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The PC revolution started with the Apple 2 in 1977. In the early 80's everyone had a Commodore 64. By the mid 80's everyone had a PC. If you were born in the 80's, you were not editing autoexec files in diapers.
Unless you were poor and your parents could never afford a PC. We still got to use computers some in school at least. I once volunteered for a 'computer camp' which was basically summer school where they would let you play on the computers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.
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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 being done 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...!
wrote last edited by [email protected]For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.
Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.
That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.
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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?
wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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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)
wrote last edited by [email protected]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
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In my day you would either get trash weed with seeds all in it, or pay out the ass for 'kind buds'. You can get whole Ounces in Michigan right now for what we had to pay for a quarter in the 90s..... damn it, you got me doing it!
I used to get my weed in a big trash bag behind the high school from a guy on a yamaha scooter. It was mostly seeds and stems and you had to smoke a lot to even get high but it was great because it gave you something fun to do with friends. I can't handle the weed people smoke nowadays, one toke sends me straight to the nether realm.
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I wish!
Not in my household.
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You're thinking of Gandalf Big Naturals. Easy mistake to make.
Better than Wither Big Naturals
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I used to get my weed in a big trash bag behind the high school from a guy on a yamaha scooter. It was mostly seeds and stems and you had to smoke a lot to even get high but it was great because it gave you something fun to do with friends. I can't handle the weed people smoke nowadays, one toke sends me straight to the nether realm.
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Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah you clearly have no clue what the 80s and 90s were like for sure
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Nah, my brother is a mega-nerd that rivals my tech abilities.
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For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.
Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.
That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.
What in the utter fuck is this dog shit take???? lol. Dude, Boomers INVENTED fucking computers. GenX, grow up along side them. We pretty all had a vic 20, Commadore 64, or Spectrum 48k/128k, or Amstrad CPC464. And later on an amiga, or an ST. The list is fucking endless, and thats before you get to to the Apple II, the trs80 and Commadore PET and later 386 PCs.
We grew up with ham radios, VCRs, TVs that only played games on one channel. We had Nintendo and Sega battling it out in the 80s, then Sony, nintendo, panasonic, Sega, NEC, SNK, Philips, Atari, Casio(who created a console exclusively for girls for some reason), Bandi, apple, and fuck knows how many others battling in the 90s. The idea that all these things were invented by/or used by boomer and genx, and you can sit there thinking we dont know how to use shit... We're the fucking figure it out generation, son. If something broke, we had to learn to fix it ourselves. And without youtube videos and FAQs to hold our hands.
Millennials, absolute kings of the terrible takes and pulling information out of their arse.
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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
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The meh generation
Nah, they’re the last “boomer” generation. Fed a diet of TV and no internet growing up, but just in time to secure the last slice of normal with owning a home and having a family on a decent income.
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Ok but what about Gen X?
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Ok but what about Gen X?
wrote last edited by [email protected]We could fix it too, but we don’t wanna.
