When you always assume bad intent, don’t be surprised people treat you as shit

By generalizing a generation, you’re doing the exact same thing you’re accusing people of doing, I hope you realize this

I'm not at all giving a shocked Pikachu face in reaction to your comment, if you believe otherwise, you're misreading my intent. I'm also not talking down towards you as a person, doubting your skills, or bullying you. Based on your responses here, I believe you to be a very tech inclined person and are probably highly skilled. A lot of us here on Lemmy fall into that category regardless of age.

What I am saying is that you came into this conversation unnecessarily hot and that your view is likely skewed because you yourself are a tech enthusiast. You come from and are a product of tech, and as such may not realize the lack of tech abilities of those outside of your bubble.

I'm also not saying that Boomers/Gen X have to be bad with tech, or even that all Millennials are. My main point is to highlight median household exposure over different generations leading to memes such as this. For example, in the U.S., only ~8% of households had a computer in 1984 and ~15% in 1989; the UK was ~9% in 1984 and ~17% by 1988 (Source on Census.gov, page 6). PCs didn’t become mainstream at home until the mid to late '90s. By then, late Gen X/Millennials were the teens/20-somethings doing the hands-on fixes, which is why the "Millennial IT support" meme resonates. Skip to kids nowadays growing up on iPhones and tablets and other out of the box easy to use devices that Just Work^TM^, they didn't get the same experience learning to fix shit themselves like the older or middle generations had.

To reiterate, none of this says older folks, nor younger, can’t be great at tech, just that cohort exposure and the kind of tech we grew up with differ and has had it's influences on the whole of generational groups, while not defining every individual within those groups.

If you still feel attacked at this point, that's 100% on you and I don't know what else to say.

You can just install and invoke the compiler directly, and you only need a driver if you're on windows and using the bootloader to program it, and you don't need a bootloader if you have an ISP (programmer) so you can flash it directly, and you don't need anything else though one of the main reason people use Arduino is for the libraries

But I'm Generation Z and I have to update my mom's Linux Mint laptop because she can't pay attention when I show her.

I am gen z and just writing my bachelor's thesis for computer science/Cybersecurity. Many of my peers are in CS too.

No shit, sherlock. Did you figure that out all by yourself, or did you have break out a special magical box of crayons to help?

I mean, I couldnt have made any more obvious if Id written it in pink glittery neon shit.

"Im not talking down to you" then proceeds to talk down to me... What a prick.

Im not in any "bubble", cunty chops. But you might be. Once again, not an enthusiast. Is there another language I can say that in? And my experiences, the ones I was talking to you about, were from the 80s and 90s. EVERYONE had some form of computer, like I said. If theres GenX around today that dont know about them so much that they need to annoy their genz kids, they are the fucking minority.

As for feeling attacked, no. You misunderstood. Im utterly fucking sick of wee dicks, spouting generational war bullshit. You know, like you dweeby little millennials pricks that cant even get a fucking girl to touch you without an app.

Solid comeback...

Kind of a fond/humanised name for chat gpt me and some colleagues use. We've dubbed it our idiot friend, 'Gippers'. Its commonly wrong and there's a group of colleagues who trusts it and a group who doesn't. I think we anthropomorphised the machine a little, and also its maybe a little cringey.

Agree.. Cringe.

Thanks

If that can make you feel better, I agree that millenials suck at computers. I mean sure they can do some basic stuff, but most people I know don't know shit really

proceeds to talk down to me

I wasn't talking down to you, I was explaining my perspective backed up with facts you clearly did not look at. I'd ask if you could point out where you feel I'd done so, but as you can see later in my comment, I no longer care.

EVERYONE had some form of computer

This is statistically impossible as you can see from the source that I provided from the US Census Bureau.

What a prick. ... cunty chops ... you dweeby little millennials pricks

Name calling. Nice, dude. For your age, I'd expect you to be more mature. I'll just be reporting, blocking you, and moving on. I tried to have a cordial conversation with you, but you are clearly not capable of doing so. Have a nice day, and a nice life.

Well I don't know... I worked with boomers who first built out the internet in my country. Now they mostly retired, but the Gen-Xers who remain are also incredible.

My dad who's also a boomer and an anesthesiologist got admin rights at the hospital he worked at because he helped everyone around with their computer troubles and the tech support trusted him and were happy he reduced their ticket load.

Maybe you guys just know the wrong people.

Boomer is a mindset not a timespan.

Not all of Gen Z are tech illiterate. Some of us used computers before iPads and smartphones. I used Windows XP and 7 long before I ever got a smartphone.

There are some parts of Gen Z that can actually tear stuff apart and actually fix systems, but those are the nerds (which also includes me) that care enough to actually learn stuff. The majority is quite tech illiterate

This is how I am for the part (including most people who aren’t computer enthusiasts or CS degree holders). I know my limits on what I am willing to do with command lines because I don’t have time to memorize all that shit.

I wrote a shell script my mom just has to click on to run the updates and she still can't figure it out. The filename is literally "ClickHereToRunUpdatesMom.sh"

I'm also Gen Z

You're completely wrong, but if you want to confuse the word even more, go ahead.