Only one generation knows how to fix tech...
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My dad is close to 80. He's been PC savvy since the super early 1980s and he still is, although he is stuck in Windows because he's a monster in the astrophotography world and most of his software isn't supported in Linux etc. I dated a girl in college whose dad was one of the founding creators of the internet. Unlike Al Gore lol.
I taught my younger brother how to program in basic and pascal in the 80s. He's now a super successful programmer. I'm pretty poor but I like to build fix and upgrade people's computers as a hobby. I am gen x.
I am Gen X
This sounds like a commercial (fellow GenX here), haha
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I dated a girl in college whose dad was one of the founding creators of the internet. Unlike Al Gore lol.
Bullshit. If her dad was one of the founders of the Internet, you'd know that the Al Gore meme was a Republican smear campaign.
I worked for Vint Cerf in the early 90's. This is what he wrote to defend Al Gore against the Republican smear campaign:
Al Gore didn't need a smear campaign for his nonsense. I was there too, we were laughing our asses off at the shit he said.
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Gen X seem to be either computer people or totally unaware. Millennials seem to be generally much less knowledgeable than the former and much more knowledgeable than the latter. Obviously there are millennials who are computer people, but my conception of them is more people who got computer science degrees than the person who lives in a shack in the woods and builds his own robots. Boomer computer people are even more formidable.
I’m not saying that’s true, but it’s the stereotype I have in my head.
Well put.
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If you all didn’t want to be the New Zealand of generations you would’ve had your mom give birth earlier or later duh.
Just like New Zealand should push itself closer to a continent if it wants to be on maps.
Also as a dum millennial I am always amused when my brethren ask me about social media etc and say I don’t know about tech cause I don’t got an ig account or watever. Bitch please, I have worked in kernel dev I know all the lies we present as a file. I get angy when people that can’t read x86 assembly tell me I’m not technical.
Hahahahaha, take my GenX upvote
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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.
Tldr; you got your feelings hurt over a meme
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As someone already said, you forgot Gen X. When I ask someone to open a command/terminal window, they have no clue what I’m talking about.
Insert I was born into this meme.
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Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.
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Am I the only one that demands to be called gen y?
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My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.
My grandpa was a robotics engineer and thus knew how to use a PC quite well but watching him operate Windows 10 basically without utilizing any tools that came after DOS was bizarre.
To Microsoft’s credit, they have historically been very good about ensuring backwards compatibility. There are a few notable exceptions, but for the most part you can treat Windows as if it is DOS, and it still mostly works.
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As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]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?
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Hey, Millennial here. Just a friendly reminder to drink your metamucil today
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Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.
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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.
Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?
Go study a trade, ffs
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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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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.
