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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The comments from obvious teenagers on 1337x on pretty much every torrent suggests that a lot of people do this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Basic computer usage skill level does seem to be in decline, doesn't it lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Operating a computer used to be a specialized skill, you used to have to look under the hood pretty often to make things work. Now all that prep work is taken care of for you, so end users are further away from the partial techs we all used to be.

Dropping into a DOS command line to install software was a normal thing in Windows 95, now if you pull up a command line people think you're a Microsoft Certified Technowizard™.