▲ 194 ▼ What streaming services do you pay for? (aussie.zone) submitted 3 years ago by cccc@aussie.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 259 comments fedilink hide all child comments Obviously the answers here might be a bit lower than other places…
[–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 9 points 3 years ago (1 child) I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] xeekei@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Gen X: still the forgotten generation. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier. But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly. The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago (2 children) who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] xeekei@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Gen X: still the forgotten generation. permalink fedilink source parent [–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier. But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly. The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago Gen X: still the forgotten generation. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 3 points 3 years ago Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier. But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly. The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy. permalink fedilink source parent