Only one generation knows how to fix tech...
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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! ðŸ¤
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.
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You said the word boomer 6 times and you think that makes you look smart. Boomer means boomer, what a genius.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Why are you still engaging mate just wander off and leave them to it.
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Sauce? I just make stuff and opine freely. I think none of that is bullshit, but I'll debate it on a case-by-case.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything that really matches my statement, but I recall seeing it somewhere.
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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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.If you buy an arduino dev board it'll come with the bootloader already installed, so you just install the ide, install the driver if you':re usingc windows, plug in the board, press upload and you're done?
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So am I! I guess we are more relatable to millennials. 10 years ago, people would call me one so whatever.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Whaddup my dudes! Same era, first computer I used had 10GB of HDD and 64MB RAM, still have a backup of the files somewhere..
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I know enough Millennials who don't know shit. "My email address is www...."
There are luddites in every generation.
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Pc gaming is kinda bringing gen z and alpha back to the light. RGB is how the get you and before you know it you're watching pewdepie's guide to installing Linux and custom android roms.
I'm quite optimistic about the computing future tbh! With LLM helping with troubleshooting the field should be much more accessible for anyone willing to learn.
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LOL thanks.
Also FYI I'm 19.Funniest bit is that I am 42 hehe
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Right?
How about jumpers on hard drives while figuring out interrupts and hard drive/controller card matching (I forget what it was called, but there was something about figuring out the interleave, etc).
I'm about to have some awful flashbacks, dammit.
wrote last edited by [email protected]IDE master/slave jumpers. Wow am I glad we ditched that.
4Mb Ram sharing 1mb with the ghetto cirrus video card, and somehow you need to run winsock and Netscape Communicator on it.
The whole time I'm configuring a customer's machine and grinding my teeth, they're saying how great the salesman was who sold this boat-anchor. I'm proud of holding my tongue for the 90 min it took to complete the courtesy job and go back to the shop.
I may need to start drinking.
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IDE master/slave jumpers. Wow am I glad we ditched that.
4Mb Ram sharing 1mb with the ghetto cirrus video card, and somehow you need to run winsock and Netscape Communicator on it.
The whole time I'm configuring a customer's machine and grinding my teeth, they're saying how great the salesman was who sold this boat-anchor. I'm proud of holding my tongue for the 90 min it took to complete the courtesy job and go back to the shop.
I may need to start drinking.
Oh, master/slave was simple compared to the interleaving thing. Honestly, that was so much a pain I've forgotten what it was/how to do it.
I'll raise a glass for you next time I'm mixing up a drink.
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i did the world a favor and decided to not have kids. sadly, this also means i am unable to hand down a generation's worth of computer knowledge, heh.
Mentorships exist and a lot of kids are hungry for knowledge. We can help the ones that want to learn, but maybe aren't given a lot of opportunities.
