Zoomers & Boomers are the same
Zoomers & Boomers are the same
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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2 generations. Gen X and Millennials are both of the right age to properly understand computers.
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To put a finer point on it, it specifically the younger Gen Xers and older Millennials. Thatโs the โoneโ generation this post describes.
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I'm on the older end of Gen Xers and at least the nerdier half of us not only know how to use computers, but we've seen the whole evolution of home computing since the Altair. We know in a way you never can why goto is considered harmful.
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And on the other end of that, my niece and nephew are just on the cusp between millennial and gen z and they grew up playing games on Windows 95, 98, and XP. I think both Gen X and Millennials in their entirety fit the bill.
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Iโm on the younger end of X, and definitely agree about witnessing (most) of the evolution of personal computing.
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It's not just younger Gen X. I'm oldish Gen X and loads of us were programming computers for fun from the late 1970s on. By the early 1990s you couldn't really avoid computers, and you couldn't use them without at least a basic level of understanding. By that time many of us had been using them for a decade or more. It's those who grew up without computers (before they became common) and those who grew up with iPhones that have a problem with tech.
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I know younger millennials and older gen Z and they both can use computers just fine. The oldest Gen Z are nearly 30 now.
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Don't discount older Gen X. They're some of the best Engineers. Some of them built the technology the rest of us learned on.
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That would be the xennials.
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Beat me to it
Everybody always forgets about Gen X
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I'm sure they're used to it and therefore are all like "meh, whatever".
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Yeah honestly we forget about ourselves just as often
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Trying to explain to a GenXer what Cobol is and to a Millennial what a Ring Light is and its practically impossible.
This meme is just ForwardsFromGeandma minus the ๐๐คฃ๐๐คฃ emojis. If GenX/Millennials properly understood technology, they wouldn't all be on Windows.
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Pretty sure the only Cobol programmers left at this point are Gen X and older.
People are still on Windows because of massive industry momentum, and as the developers shift from being mostly Gen X and older millennials, to younger millennials and Gen z, things are getting progressively shittier. And it's not only due to c-suite driven enshitification.
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Pretty sure the only Cobol programmers left at this point are Gen X and older.
The funny thing is that we've got a ton of legacy hardware that still runs it, mostly in the public sector. But since GenX/Millennials avoided public jobs like the plague, what we're seeing now are Boomers left to teach it to the incoming ranks of GenZs who can't get a job in the dying Silicon Valley sector.
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And just like that, Gen X disappeared from existence
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Millennial what a Ring Light is
Ain't nobody don't know what a fuckin' ring light is.
The Xbox would give red ones of death. ๐ค
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Maybe not understand it, but at least they're able to use it competantly.
That being said, the main reason most millenials I know havn't hopped to linux is because they don't know about it, they have software that prevents them from using it or don't have the time to set it up (I get its quick and easier now, but it still takes time(.
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I'm in the middle of Gen X.
I had a class in college that was centered on COBOL.
I certainly wouldn't need anyone to explain to what it is.
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If GenX/Millennials properly understood technology, they wouldnโt all be on Windows.
By that metric the only generations that properly understand technology are gen alpha and boomers, since they're the most likely to just own a phone and/or tablet and no windows desktop or laptop.
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Maybe it's just me but I feel like PDFs are significantly a less common part of life nowadays. Especially when it comes to having to edit one
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Ah. You're likely in the wrong job for it then. They are incredibly popular in any sort of digital paperwork job.
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Can confirm, we're using PDF for any sort of pretty formatted documents/reports we're sending to clients.
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Just about every financial institution will use PDFs. Now editing PDFs, thatโs slightly different (but only so slightly). Used to be you had to use a certain tech giantโs monolithic and expensive software to create/edit PDFs, but these days itโs second nature; maybe to the point that youโve stopped noticing?
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God I WISH that were true because I personally fucking hate them.
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Iโm curious. What other format you have to send and receive documents?
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Uncompressed .BMP files from Windows 3.11 MS Paint
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Tiktocks
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LaTeX
If you want me to read it, you better put effort into writing it.-
I tried to write my master dissertation in LaTeX. Emphasis on โtriedโ.
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It's just you.
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They have unfortuantely become a standard for sharing documents because they can be opened on a browser, on almost any device.
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