so real
im sick of being the classroom it guy just because i know how to use the computer beyond clicking stuff onthe desktop
Guess who to blame
My Gen Alpha kid refuses to learn when I offer to teach him. I am not going to force him to become technologically literate. (I’m Gen X and write software professionally). Maybe it’s my fault because my teaching style is incompatible with his learning style? He won’t accept my offers to send him to classes either.
In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam…
that man was a fucking wizard.
He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him… he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company’s entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.
… For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.
But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.
We often forget that half the boomers were the hippies, pioneers of the Internet, and activist that got the civil rights act passed.
Half the boomers were absolutely not hippies.
Hot take but the hippies fucking sucked and I absolutely despise the entire movement. They had no political message, no demands, no way of achieving their goals, and were an entire movement based on vibes alone. The 70s was a time of great economic upheaval and there was a real chance that things could change, that we could have became a more progressive society, even revolution was possible, but then the hippies came and channeled the revolutionary energy of an entire generation into doing fuck all. Quite frankly I feel the same about the no kings protest today, an entire movement based on vibes with no plans of accomplishing anything.
We forget that it was a minority of them. The majority is like every other generation: kept disinterested and selfish.
I mean, for gen alpha, that’s an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.
You mean being made easier for normies?
Year of the Linux desktop and day now.
Ballsy of you to assume that it got “easier for normies”, the answer probably lies in asking “easier for what?”. Computers have been redefined as consumption devices in a scheme to extract maximal profit out of their captive users. So it’s certainly “easy” for a growing number of users baited into dark patterns to hand over their credit card details and get addicted to antisocial networks and whatnot. But using modern devices as traditional computers, with intent, as a productive tool? It got much harder, except maybe for the Linux users, normies and “geeks” alike.
👌👍 Linux is easy to use out of the box, bug free, and works on common hardware that people use without issue.
The word ‘normie’ is just insulting. It implies a hierarchy of knowledge that I just don’t accept.
👌 however you want to deal with the fact that your in a massive minority.
I can’t dance as well as a ballerina, but they’re in the minority and so should be forced to plod like the rest of us.
Not for my daughter, I’m starting her early on Arch (she’s 4 but she will learn to love the terminal lol)
You’ve got a hacker in training there
“Now sweetie, find the etc directory or no ice cream.”
You mean like that’s difficult?
We all start somewhere!
Idk personally if I was teaching a child how to use Linux I would focus on more practical skills like updating pkgs
