Where did Gen X go?

And duct tape is silver

as a software engineer who didnt go to college, i am not talking about programming; i have peers at work who have a masters degree in CS who know nothing about computers.

i'm talking about troubleshooting problems and fixing them by telling your boomer aunt what to do over a video call when her keyboard makes her computer too slow for her cat to read her favorite comic when she presses the "G" key.

Yeah i got scammed because they called while i was talking to a mechanic about my breakes. So i was rather distracted

There are people out there who would happily give AI all the power in the world to turn their skulls into a highway or a scammer access to their entire bank account just so they don’t have to read out an error and google it for themselves out of fear of technology or even speaking to anyone about technology.

Sort of like those people who would rather drive their car off of a cliff rather than ever hear words from a mechanic or check their own oil.

Well, we do live in different times. Back then, I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Gimme five bees for a quarter,' you'd say. Now where were we? Oh, yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones

I am happy to pretend not to know anything so as not have to fix everyone's computer.

Even to the point that when someone is expected to fact check at a dinner table - I look at the young'ns as if I am hopeless so that they can do the lookup.

Totally normal response to a meme.

We're already at that end of the alphabet again?

The whole history of this meme is a tired Boomer-tier joke. It's 9gag material at this point.

Yeah I am GenX, and it's me & the kid who is GenZ are tech support in my family, she is by far my most technologically adept offspring. One millennial kid is hopeless, says "technology hates me", the other just a low-technology sort of person, but fine with computer for work. And the youngest expects everything to just work, which seems to work out for them. Husband is culturally a boomer, LOL but also just expects everything to work, but it doesn't work out as well for him.

Only the GenZ one likes to mess with the computer and likes to know how to fix problems, and she is our pirate as well, the mistress of forbidden content - if something is not on the streaming she can often find it for us.

This is the "Nobody who isn't a Boomer knows how to fix a car" tier meme material. Just a tired lie that keeps getting recycled as a meme because it's clickbait for the snobs.

I'm like this these days, too! Absolutely annoyed (in a funny way, but still...!) by internet drama LOL.

Thanks! Bye!

We fix our own damn computers before the Millenials get out of bed.

Lol

Wooooooooooosh

And immediately after we turned the computer on/off and get it working they will post how millennials are weak because we drink ice coffee and go to yoga.

Why are you still engaging mate just wander off and leave them to it.

Unfortunately, I can't find anything that really matches my statement, but I recall seeing it somewhere.

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.

If you buy an arduino dev board it'll come with the bootloader already installed, so you just install the ide, install the driver if you':re usingc windows, plug in the board, press upload and you're done?