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[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

This has very little to do with Chromebooks. It's happening in countries where they are rare as well. The main cause is the fact that things for the most part just... work now. The experience on PCs and especially smartphones has become so streamlined that it doesn't require that much knowledge to be able to use them at a sufficient level. Plus smartphones have become the default device for most people so they almost never have to interact with stuff like the file system or anything complex. Most people don't care about understanding how computers work more than what they need them for, and that's fine.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

A friend of mine is a teacher in training and he is currently teaching ~11 year olds about basic computer use (like Office programs) and a lot of his students weren’t sufficiently able to use a mouse in the beginning. Almost all of them have smartphones.

Also, they seem to lack the bite to get behind things themselves, if they don’t get something or if something doesn’t work like they think it should.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It’s happening in countries where they are rare as well.

This 👆 OOP sounds like US defaultism.

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Enshittification

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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

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