Technology

[–] BrianTheFirst@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago

I love how everyone is acting like this is a new thing. People have never been able to use computers.

[–] xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I was right in the edge of Gen Z and Millennial and grew up being the family’s tech kid. It still astounds me now that my younger sisters don’t know how to even look for solutions. They just get me. Having moved out I get texts and calls sometimes. I’ve had to explain that using a computer is a skill that is learnable. I didn’t learn by going to someone else. I had to learn how to learn. That’s the skill we should be teaching kids. Not how to solve the problems, but how to FIND the solution to problems.

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[–] veloxization@yiffit.net 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I'm also between gen Z and millennial and was the family's tech kid and still get calls. Are you me? :D

Just yesterday I got a call asking how to select all images in a directory... And then another call about how to get those images to Google Drive, which is literally just drag and drop... And one of the people involved was my gen Z younger sister.

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[–] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

the family’s tech kid and still get calls

I don't know how you all get calls. I have literally never been called to fix a computer. People prefer to pay some random guy at Walmart who will scam them, instead of calling me and getting free help. And I'm not a troll, not an asshole, or an incel, I'm a regular guy, I'm friendly, but people don't seem to care, they prefer paying for useless help.

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[–] veloxization@yiffit.net 1 point 3 years ago

Of course my family members call me. It's the only way they get the tech support I used to offer in-house. :D

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[–] superfly_samurai@lemmy.one 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Teach a child to fish, basically.

If we keep making it easy for them... Ask and I'll give you all the answers... They'll never learn.

My first response these days is, "What have you tried so far?" And, "What are you searching for in 'Google'?"

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[–] transmatrix@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago

I also ask "what have you tried so far" mostly because too many times I get into troubleshooting and then discover that they've created a new problem while doing their own troubleshooting. (Like one time they plugged in a second cable between two switches - good god was that hard to troubleshoot remotely)

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[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The late 90s Gen Z/Millennial DMZ is a painful place to exist. Constant and mandatory tech support.

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[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

The ones that is blamed for the ills of society by both the baby boomers and younger gen zs

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[–] Aradina@lemmy.ml 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

Yep. I was born 1998. To Millennials, I'm a tiny baby Gen Z, to Gen Zs, I may as well be a boomer. It's odd.

Growing up poor confuses things even more, because I have more in common with people born late 80s/early 90s than with people born only a few years after me. My first game console was a SNES and we had a VCR until we got a PS2, and kept using it well after.

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[–] pitl@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago

Same boat here, though a couple years later. It feels really weird to be so out of the loop with my "fellow" Gen Z siblings who were born in the late 00s.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I am 28 and i have always thought that the as long as you know how to operate a search engine you can find out what you need. The reason computer people know computers better than you do is because computer people can use a search engine better than you

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Good thing search engines are optimized for advertising instead of utility!

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[–] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 years ago

I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I'm searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol