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    Just pretend you're going senile or 'the new stuff' is just too advanced. If that doesn't work you could always claim to have started a 'tech repair/recycling' side hustle and start billing people.

  • resplendent606@piefed.socialR
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    Instead of "the Oregon Trail generation" we should be called the "I read the damn manual" generation.

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    Back in my day we had weed. We still do, but we did back then too.

  • W
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    I'm not sure what their comment said before they fixed it, but if it was "The Organ Trail", that game exists. It's basically "The Oregon Trail", but with zombies.

  • W
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    In my day you would either get trash weed with seeds all in it, or pay out the ass for 'kind buds'. You can get whole Ounces in Michigan right now for what we had to pay for a quarter in the 90s..... damn it, you got me doing it! 😉

  • D
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    Ageism has been around long time

    "In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.

    And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say "raise the carriage shafts" or "trim the lamp wick," but people today say "raise it" or "trim it." When they should say, "Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!" they say, "Torches! Let's have some light!" Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor "the Hall of the Imperial Lecture," they shorten it to "the Lecture Hall," a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained."

    Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō
    1330 - 1332 AD

  • O
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    The oregano trail is lined with spicy meat-a-balls.

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    You do realize Gen X were the ones who were building their own computers back in the late 80's and all through the 90s and loading them with Windows 3.1 and the original flavors of Linux, on top of fostering the open source world everyone here relies upon? All before Millennials graduated from Jr High.

  • W
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    Unless you were poor and your parents could never afford a PC. We still got to use computers some in school at least. I once volunteered for a 'computer camp' which was basically summer school where they would let you play on the computers.

  • R
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    Yeah, I went back and changed it to a strikethrough to avoid more confusion.

  • D
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    The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.

  • N
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    For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.

    Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.

    That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.

  • L
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    First introduction to Internet in late highschool or College means you're a gen X.

    You can keep still, or whatever, but frankly it doesn't matter. You don't matter. Your parents (Boomer's) mortgaged your generations, and everyone since, future for a pointless capitalist nightmare.

  • L
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    You just have to practice more! Though while I'm pretty good with computers Linux does still scare me a little too, I have a habit of poking around where I'm not supposed to and Linux is more than happy to let you break things

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    I used to get my weed in a big trash bag behind the high school from a guy on a yamaha scooter. It was mostly seeds and stems and you had to smoke a lot to even get high but it was great because it gave you something fun to do with friends. I can't handle the weed people smoke nowadays, one toke sends me straight to the nether realm.

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    I wish!

    Not in my household.

  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.comS
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    Better than Wither Big Naturals