^^^ I love this human. ^^^
Not only did they post a nice answer towards my comment, they're actually settling what could turn into an internet argument from the get go!

LOL thanks.
Also FYI I'm 19.

Another vote for that human, some people (others) make internet feel like working in retail...

We're burned out. It's time to pass the soldering iron.

Lost gen got all that kung-fu.

I tried to get into the whole Arduino thing as a Gen Xer. I couldn't believe the complexity and back story you need to know before getting started. Totally baffled by the whole thing. Just give me a processor, some memory and a serial port. Why do I need an IDE, drivers, a bootloader, fifteen different kinds of whatevers I don't understand, yes, I am burned out, where are the Doritos?

They’re too tired for that too. They’re more of a “blow in the hole and jiggle it” people.

Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!

r/iamverysmart

That escalated quickly....

Edit: surprising really, when considering that stoners don't do anything quickly

No, you’re not.

Awe shucks! 🤭

I dunno, I've spent enough time in online communities that I'd rather not start fights over things that can simply be talked through. I'm happy to hear Bennyboy's response too if they still disagree with me and believe me to be mistaken, but there's certainly no reason for hostility!

Not an enthusiast. Im the average. And you calm down, or send you to bed without any supper!!!

And as for "coming out swinging", youre god damn right. Cos you people are either ignoring us, or just making up dog shit about us. And now youre giving the shocked Pikachu face, cos someone got sick of the bullshit lies? Dude... I guess that another thing your generation love to do. Make it look like the bullied person standing up for themself is the asshole. Fuck, how you lot love to do that.

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.