▲ 1029 ▼ Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev 238 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866 source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
[–] andybytes@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (5 children) I thought they would be wiz kids... permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [+] Photuris@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago Asked a user to log into a computer at work. She would have been around 25 or so about 6-7 years ago. I was stunned watching her turn on caps lock each time she had to type a character in uppercase. I didn't understand it at all until my mom pointed out she probably always used a phone or a tablet and never learned what the shift key was for. Still blows my mind because by that point in that user's education she had probably written hundreds if not thousands of papers to get where she was. I can't imagine her doing that without using the shift key. permalink fedilink source parent [–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) Me too. They were born with phones in their hands, right? Understanding technology should be like breathing to them! But it turns out they started using it after corporations had locked it down and simplified it, so they only know how to use apps, not how any of it actually works. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* Though even Sysadmin is going to be managing a SaaS cloud service or a self managed docker container on an automatically provisioned hyperconverged SAN, so its going to be obsolete in a decade. Chromebooks are where we are headed, and Google also saw the future a decade ago. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Sat@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 years ago They know how to use technology but they have no idea how it works or what to do if it breaks. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Photuris@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago Asked a user to log into a computer at work. She would have been around 25 or so about 6-7 years ago. I was stunned watching her turn on caps lock each time she had to type a character in uppercase. I didn't understand it at all until my mom pointed out she probably always used a phone or a tablet and never learned what the shift key was for. Still blows my mind because by that point in that user's education she had probably written hundreds if not thousands of papers to get where she was. I can't imagine her doing that without using the shift key. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago Asked a user to log into a computer at work. She would have been around 25 or so about 6-7 years ago. I was stunned watching her turn on caps lock each time she had to type a character in uppercase. I didn't understand it at all until my mom pointed out she probably always used a phone or a tablet and never learned what the shift key was for. Still blows my mind because by that point in that user's education she had probably written hundreds if not thousands of papers to get where she was. I can't imagine her doing that without using the shift key. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 child) Me too. They were born with phones in their hands, right? Understanding technology should be like breathing to them! But it turns out they started using it after corporations had locked it down and simplified it, so they only know how to use apps, not how any of it actually works. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* Though even Sysadmin is going to be managing a SaaS cloud service or a self managed docker container on an automatically provisioned hyperconverged SAN, so its going to be obsolete in a decade. Chromebooks are where we are headed, and Google also saw the future a decade ago. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] turnip@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago* Though even Sysadmin is going to be managing a SaaS cloud service or a self managed docker container on an automatically provisioned hyperconverged SAN, so its going to be obsolete in a decade. Chromebooks are where we are headed, and Google also saw the future a decade ago. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Sat@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 years ago They know how to use technology but they have no idea how it works or what to do if it breaks. permalink fedilink source parent