And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
I know enough Millennials who don’t know shit. “My email address is www…”
Same. My older brother got scammed by the “hello this is paypal. Your account got hacked.” Eventhough i told him to hang up and that it is a scam
Anyone can get scammed, they just have to get you with your guard down.
Where did Gen X go?
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
You are rare and these stereotypes are mostly false. Most people in every generation can’t fix a computer. Maybe the only slight echo of truth is that during the millennial childhood and youth, at least in terms of raw numbers, home computers peaked as the main “tech” children were exposed to, so there might be a little more people who are not professionals, but have some extra comfort with them. Still, that’s a stretch.
There are some parts of Gen Z that can actually tear stuff apart and actually fix systems, but those are the nerds (which also includes me) that care enough to actually learn stuff. The majority is quite tech illiterate
Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.
Just ask an AI to fix it.
YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS AN RTX 5090 SUPER RUNNING THE SKYNET CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE TO WORK PROPERLY.
Easy
And when it arrives it turns out you need a new computer as well. Also it’s lacking some features you need, and it has some new features nobody asked for. Also fixing it became much harder and doing so can get you to jail.
Not all of Gen Z are tech illiterate. Some of us used computers before iPads and smartphones. I used Windows XP and 7 long before I ever got a smartphone.
Same here, but I’m a border generation (born in the late 90s)
So am I! I guess we are more relatable to millennials. 10 years ago, people would call me one so whatever.
Well I don’t know… I worked with boomers who first built out the internet in my country. Now they mostly retired, but the Gen-Xers who remain are also incredible.
My dad who’s also a boomer and an anesthesiologist got admin rights at the hospital he worked at because he helped everyone around with their computer troubles and the tech support trusted him and were happy he reduced their ticket load.
Maybe you guys just know the wrong people.
But I’m Generation Z and I have to update my mom’s Linux Mint laptop because she can’t pay attention when I show her.
I wrote a shell script my mom just has to click on to run the updates and she still can’t figure it out. The filename is literally “ClickHereToRunUpdatesMom.sh”
I’m also Gen Z
Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!
Shh, we get to be anonymous, tech literate and be able to buy our own houses.
Shhh - let the Millennials do it, they need the validation, and most of us need a nap.
Ok but what about Gen X?
Napping. Wake me up when September ends.
We could fix it too, but we don’t wanna.
We’re burned out. It’s time to pass the soldering iron.
I tried to get into the whole Arduino thing as a Gen Xer. I couldn’t believe the complexity and back story you need to know before getting started. Totally baffled by the whole thing. Just give me a processor, some memory and a serial port. Why do I need an IDE, drivers, a bootloader, fifteen different kinds of whatevers I don’t understand, yes, I am burned out, where are the Doritos?
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.
They’re too tired for that too. They’re more of a “blow in the hole and jiggle it” people.
Let’s be fair, we millennial know how to fix stuff because stuff still can be fixed. We can glance back one generation away and learn about how stuff work back then, and also learn how to fix those stuff. Nowadays stuff aren’t meant to be fixed, (late) gen z doesn’t have thing to start tearing apart and learn about the inner working of stuff, because it’s all glued/snapped together, with the culture being once broke just toss.
Computers themselves are still pretty fixable.
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.
And duct tape is silver
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!
The meh generation
so middle of the road that they are left out of every discussion about generations. Boomers may suck, but at least they’re memorable lol
I for one am happy to be left out of the ‘generation war’. It’s stupid. In my day blah blah blah- no one cares gramps. Live in the now.
Back in my day we had weed. We still do, but we did back then too.
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.
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.
You’re using that word again. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Boomer is a mindset not a timespan.
the last “boomer” generation. Fed a diet of TV and no internet growing up
Boomer is a mindset not a timespan
Lol.
Yeah?
You don’t have to be born from '46 to '64 to be a boomer, you have to act like a boomer to be a boomer. Being fed a boomer media/social diet growing up tends to make people grow up into boomers.
You’re conflating and confusing a term that has existed since the 60’s to describe a time span, with complex societal, economical effects on peoples mindset today.
Your inability to describe and explain the things you want to argue is the issue. Repeating the word again and again is not helping.
You’re completely wrong, but if you want to confuse the word even more, go ahead.
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.
You seniors and your K8s I tell you whut
I wish!
Not in my household.
At this point I’m happy to let someone else do it. Being everybody’s tech support sucks. I can just tinker with and enjoy my own setups in peace.
The generation that couldn’t be bothered.
“Meh”
Whatchu got going for you, pal? Crippling anxiety? Unable to socialize? Helplessly uninspired? The creativity of a mushroom?
Meh.
A denial.
A denial.
A denial.
A denial.
A denial.
Edgy.
