this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (18 children)

I've long said that I believe Millennials, as a generational cohort, are the best at typing that ever has been and ever will be. We were the first generation where adults really recognized that we'd be using computers our entire lives and took steps to teach typing. But, so much more importantly than that, we socialized through typing. I had typing classes in school, sure, but I learned to type quickly on AIM and in chat rooms.

Earlier generations only really typed for business or school. Later generations socialize over phones, so they, too, only use a physical keyboard for school and business.

I guess I should amend this theory to include all tech literacy in general.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

As a Zoomer, I also had typing classes, but I learned how to type because I wanted to be able to quickly send messages in Minecraft when I was like 7 years old ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I write a lot on my keyboard, and have been for a long time. But my left hand is not on SDF but on AWD because that's the default hand position for gaming/shooters. ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

Doesn't stop me from typing fast or blind though. Otherwise I would have done something about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't teach my older zoomer kid to type. He learned on his own out of the necessity of chatting with friends in online games, played on his computer. He uses the first two fingers of both hands, and he's faster than me, who learned in school and has been a touch-typist for 40 years.

I think we're moving away from keyboard and mouse, anyway. It will be AR headsets with voice, eye tracking, and hand gestures for most use, and keyboards will be used only when direct input is needed.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, PDFs suck and the only software that handles them well is paid and proprietary

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Libreoffice is pretty decent with PDFs imo

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

From my experience, not very much, at least for editing PDFs without fucking up the fonts

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

There's one generation between boomers and zoomers? I'm pretty confident I know who it is you're forgetting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Gen X and Y

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