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I'm gonna go a little Boomer here: The GenZers I work with are so tech illiterate I'm worried the future is going to be some Warhammer 40k shit (hexbear.net)

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Like the few kinda tech literate GenZers are gonna have to form some guild to keep the internet running at like early 90s levels.

"Brother Jeramathy! The Omni-Web has frozen, I did the ritual of resetting but it did not work!"

"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

There also is the question of availability and means, computers are expensive now, you can't afford to take them apart and fuck around anymore, nor are most of them built to allow you to.

Computers were expensive back then, too, which is why knowing how to repair them was critical. Even something as simple as a removable battery or floppy drive was something standard that people I grew up alongside knew how to replace.