Only one generation knows how to fix tech...
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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. -
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Where did Gen X go?
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I was going to complain, but you're damned right.
Silence is golden.
And duct tape is silver
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I am gen z and just writing my bachelor's thesis for computer science/Cybersecurity. Many of my peers are in CS too.
as a software engineer who didnt go to college, i am not talking about programming; i have peers at work who have a masters degree in CS who know nothing about computers.
i'm talking about troubleshooting problems and fixing them by telling your boomer aunt what to do over a video call when her keyboard makes her computer too slow for her cat to read her favorite comic when she presses the "G" key.
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Anyone can get scammed, they just have to get you with your guard down.
Yeah i got scammed because they called while i was talking to a mechanic about my breakes. So i was rather distracted
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And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
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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.
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That escalated quickly....
Edit: surprising really, when considering that stoners don't do anything quickly
Well, we do live in different times. Back then, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones
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Where did Gen X go?
I am happy to pretend not to know anything so as not have to fix everyone's computer.
Even to the point that when someone is expected to fact check at a dinner table - I look at the young'ns as if I am hopeless so that they can do the lookup.
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Also, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge.
Idk if I’ve laughed this hard in a while
Once a week my coworker is like, this code has been working for years so we don’t touch it
Most people don’t even know what sysadmins do, but trust me, if they all took a lunch break at the same time they wouldn’t make it to the deli before you ran out of bullets protecting your canned goods from roving bands of mutants.
Same.
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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.
Totally normal response to a meme.
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And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
We're already at that end of the alphabet again?
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And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
The whole history of this meme is a tired Boomer-tier joke. It's 9gag material at this point.
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Am i a rare GenZ or do i just hang around with unicorns because we are all active in IT. Me programming nog hardware but still
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah I am GenX, and it's me & the kid who is GenZ are tech support in my family, she is by far my most technologically adept offspring. One millennial kid is hopeless, says "technology hates me", the other just a low-technology sort of person, but fine with computer for work. And the youngest expects everything to just work, which seems to work out for them. Husband is culturally a boomer, LOL but also just expects everything to work, but it doesn't work out as well for him.
Only the GenZ one likes to mess with the computer and likes to know how to fix problems, and she is our pirate as well, the mistress of forbidden content - if something is not on the streaming she can often find it for us.
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Am i a rare GenZ or do i just hang around with unicorns because we are all active in IT. Me programming nog hardware but still
This is the "Nobody who isn't a Boomer knows how to fix a car" tier meme material. Just a tired lie that keeps getting recycled as a meme because it's clickbait for the snobs.
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Awe shucks! 🤭
I dunno, I've spent enough time in online communities that I'd rather not start fights over things that can simply be talked through. I'm happy to hear Bennyboy's response too if they still disagree with me and believe me to be mistaken, but there's certainly no reason for hostility!
I'm like this these days, too! Absolutely annoyed (in a funny way, but still...!) by internet drama LOL.
Thanks! Bye!
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And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
We fix our own damn computers before the Millenials get out of bed.
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Oh it's a printer? I, uh, yeah, no I don't know anything about printers sorry.
PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?!
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Boomer is a mindset not a timespan.
Lol
Wooooooooooosh
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And immediately after we turned the computer on/off and get it working they will post how millennials are weak because we drink ice coffee and go to yoga.
