Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.

Am I the only one that demands to be called gen y?

To Microsoft’s credit, they have historically been very good about ensuring backwards compatibility. There are a few notable exceptions, but for the most part you can treat Windows as if it is DOS, and it still mostly works.

As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.

Actually agree.

By age I would be late gen-Z / almost gen-A. I grew up in rural middle-east and was introduced to home internet for first time in highschool(2020)

Where would I fall?

Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.

Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?

Go study a trade, ffs

And a younger one...

Millenial here:

This is good advice, sage even.

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EDIT:

I didn't forget the couple of extremely cool and also very knowledgable Gen X mentors/bosses I had, hahah!

... because their Gen X boss told them what to do ...

Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.

The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.

And this is how we prefer it.

So very true.

They aren't saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they'd be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.

Tribalism: a strong, sometimes prejudiced, loyalty to a group or tribe, often leading to negative attitudes towards outsiders.

For example:

Millennials are supposed to be the generation that ends the capitalist age tribalism propaganda

To me, "boomer" is a mentality. Sure, they were the kids born after the WW2 economic boom, I get that. But I feel that the mentality is "old and dying off and not worth considering".

Based on what I could find, the generations are made up demographics with no real actual definitive delineation. Too many sources can't agree on where one starts and the other ends.

I need to learn this wisdom. Gen x and I fix way too much bullshit from idiots. The only plus side is often people give me their old PCs and some of them have one or two great components. I recycle what I can and salvage anything worth saving but I need to spend less time fixing worthless hardware.

I've spent the last decade training Millennials just for that task.

I'll be over here screwing with the K8S cluster if you need me.

I was going to complain, but you're damned right.

Silence is golden.