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"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse (www.coding2learn.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.ml
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[–] 53 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I am 28 and i have always thought that the as long as you know how to operate a search engine you can find out what you need. The reason computer people know computers better than you do is because computer people can use a search engine better than you

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Good thing search engines are optimized for advertising instead of utility!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I'm searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    I learned how to use computer since i was 5 years old, mostly through video games, then by playing with the Microsoft office, i'm 25 now going computer engineering, and i'm teaching my dad how to use a computer lol

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Exactly this. I am 27 and if there's anything I've learned about the importance of different skills in tech, is that the most important one is finding the information you need. Everything else, you can look up as you need it

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