Only one generation knows how to fix tech...
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As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.
And a younger one...
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Millenial here:
This is good advice, sage even.
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EDIT:
I didn't forget the couple of extremely cool and also very knowledgable Gen X mentors/bosses I had, hahah!
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... because their Gen X boss told them what to do ...
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Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.
Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.
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Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.
The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.
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And this is how we prefer it.
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... because their Gen X boss told them what to do ...
So very true.
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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.
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.
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Millennials are supposed to be the generation that ends the capitalist age tribalism propaganda
Tribalism: a strong, sometimes prejudiced, loyalty to a group or tribe, often leading to negative attitudes towards outsiders.
For example:
Millennials are supposed to be the generation that ends the capitalist age tribalism propaganda
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AOL instant messenger was late to the party. ICQ started the instant messaging fad… that little “uh oh” notification sound is permanently burned into my brain.
I was on ICQ as well, but most people weren't. I was generalizing to the contemporary audience.
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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
wrote last edited by [email protected]To me, "boomer" is a mentality. Sure, they were the kids born after the WW2 economic boom, I get that. But I feel that the mentality is "old and dying off and not worth considering".
Based on what I could find, the generations are made up demographics with no real actual definitive delineation. Too many sources can't agree on where one starts and the other ends.
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Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.
I need to learn this wisdom. Gen x and I fix way too much bullshit from idiots. The only plus side is often people give me their old PCs and some of them have one or two great components. I recycle what I can and salvage anything worth saving but I need to spend less time fixing worthless hardware.
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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've spent the last decade training Millennials just for that task.
I'll be over here screwing with the K8S cluster if you need me.
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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.
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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...
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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???
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Fine with me. Leave us the hell alone.
Oh it's a printer? I, uh, yeah, no I don't know anything about printers sorry.
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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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The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I'm Gen Z and I was still "forced" to fix tech if I wanted to use it. I mean sure, I didn't have to deal with IRQs, setting up autoexec.bat and config.sys, and so on, but if you're not at least a little bit inclined you wouldn't have the patience to fix things even when you're "forced". You'd just give up and move on. There's always something else to do. Things have gotten easier for sure, which is reducing the exposure to "falling in the rabbit hole" but one way or another interested people will get into it.
It's like how cars are getting simpler to use, but you still have car guys around. We don't say only old people know how to drive stick.
In any case, there's better things to use as a generational boundary; like how a single G5 piano note will trigger a very specific group of people.
Edit: I went off on a tangent above and got argumentative. My original comment before this one was intended to be sarcastic but tone doesn't carry well over text. This whole thing isn't really something to argue about so I'll leave it at that.
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As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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
organOregon Trail generation. We grew up along side the tech so we understand it better than your average person from before or after.
