screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

True, and Alpha are even worst, most of them never touched a real keyboard, only use 2 thumbs on a phone. Don't tell them about windows (or/mac/linux) or what is a UI or how to use a mouse and navigate in a OS, they don't get double click or right click, resize a window, minimize a window (OMG THE WINDOW IS GONE!!!!) it's impressive.

I have seen a lot of late Z/early Alpha who cannot make some special characters on a keyboard like " or $ or even worst using AltCar. Using Word to write a letter, using keyboard shortcuts, etc. they are completely clueless with computers.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Look I don't doubt you've met these people but it's not everywhere. Here in Australia the kids still learn this at school.

    My daughter is in primary school and they've learned to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software etc.

    So they can all use a keyboard and mouse and she's done some school projects as PowerPoint slideshows.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Me and a classmate were absolutely stunned when we saw this girl typing in her password, and using Caps Lock to do uppercase letters instead of shift. We looked at her like, "WTF are you doing?" And she seriously did not know what the shift button was for.

    I just don't know how nobody showed or told her this before, and we're in college...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, you mean characters that are actually on the keyboard. I thought you meant stuff like 'Δ' or '°'

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