Why are zoomers so tech illiterate?

jeet thread

>>105937436
Seethe more schizo zoomie

>>105937436
t. seething zoomer

>>105937425 (OP)
Plenty of IT-retarded gen-xers and millennials as well, it's the gen-alpha that scares me the most.
t. Millenial

>>105937449
>I-I’m a fellow millennial, gen x and millennials are dumb too!
Go get scammed harder than a boomer, zoomer.

>>105937470
I'm 40 years old fuck so i will gladly take your zoomer accusation as a compliment actually.

>>105937425 (OP)
what do you expect? they've never used a computer before.

>>105937425 (OP)
Why are they being hired if they don't know how to use a computer?

Anyways, I think the answer to "Why are zoomers so tech illiterate?" is simple: they don't use a computer at home, and they didn't try to learn to use the computers at school.

Soon, AI will handle all things for us, so there's no need to be tech literate other than knowing how to prompt the AI

>>105937611
AI can only learn from us, if we don't advance our knowledge we lose it..
Dumbfuck

>zoomer soicial media screencap thread
>even censors the word "dies" out of fear some imaginary algorithm will block the shitty post from being seen
>>105937611
>aijeet sees this dogshit thread and decides it's a great opportunity to advertise his startup

>>105937447
>conceptualize the concept

Social media was a mistake

how do you rotate pdf? i thought the goal of pdf file was to be the final document

>>105937425 (OP)
>you see? you need to select this button
>then press this button
>type your UPN here, NO NOT THAT ONE, THIS ONE
>ok
>now open your phone with our shitty spyware auth app and press the ok button
>ok now type this number
>ok ya, I forgot, you may need to type your UPN again
>and that's it

and then niggas wonder why no one can *work with computers* in these shitty companies. This is a real story btw.

>>105937794
idk. evince can do it. I just tried it.

>>105937447
>>105937470
You should import another 20 gorillion niggers.

>>105937436
fpbp desu.
shit UX is shit UX. Most corp shitware I've dealt with is shit UX that ends up getting worked around one way or another.
The Boeing door disaster was specifically because the shopfloor execution shitware the wagies are forced to use sucked so much, they preferred texting each other to tell them what they're doing and signing off on each other's work.

I don't care what gen you are, anyone who apologizes for shit software and UX and blames the user who's confused is retarded and should be roped (and replaced by a jeet)

>>105937425 (OP)
Chromebooks and ipads

because they dont own a personal computer

>>105938010
actually a good idea. constraining what a work machine can do in terms of actual work is a good first step. Would prevent basic bitch cryptolocker and credential stealing viruses and shit too.

>>105937425 (OP)
Because tech companies have deliberately shifted toward making machines that anyone can use, regardless of knowing anything about it. It's no mystery, really. Tech companies benefit from people being illiterate.
The way to fix this is to show people how cool open source software is and how it isn't actually that hard to learn.

>>105937997
Why can't programs just look like windows xp programs with obvious everything and no required features hidden behind 7 navigation bar windows. Oh yeah because everything is chrome in the future and webshitters need everything to be le pretty

why is there a settings and a control panel? shouldnt it be the same?

> we didn't teach the kids anything
> why don't they know anything
Boomers did the same with us millennials.

>>105938069
Knowledge doesn't just float in the air, you have to pass it down. Somehow passing down knowledge stopped with boomers. It's only rug and ladder pulling now.

>>105938041
that's not the problem. the problem is the "apps" make doing anything harder than it is to just do it.
they exist to check boxes for compliance and slow you down. they're basically computer automated ways of filling out paperwork.
software should exist to make lives easier (while also enforcing and recording auditing stuff) and as long as that isn't the focus, you'll read shit ass takes like OP's faggy tweet and ignore the real problem.

I hate this satanic world.

>>105937975
>zoomoid blames millennials for what Gen X and Boomers voted to do
many such cases

>>105938053
Control panel hasn't changed since windows 98 and manages hardware, drivers and other system level things. Settings is newer and governs more surface level matters like language packs, display settings, wallpapers, etc.
Wait till you get into regedit. You thought the Linux terminal was obtuse, the windows registry might as well require you to be an actual wizard to use it.

>>105938094
I'm a millenial and our generation is cucked by public education. I was forced to read propaganda like Night and watch Schindlers list in school along with entire sections about blacks, mexicans, we even read a book called Nectar in a Sieve for india. This backfired and made me absolutely disgusted by india though because they lived in a literal shithut in the book and british colonization was the only thing that lifted their children out of poverty.

>>105938119
the registry is just another shitty filesystem-not-filesystem with typed "values"
what makes it hard to use is all the weird GUIDs everywhere for stuff like TypeLib.

>>105938119
I hate the settings menu so fucking much

>>105938081
We stopped passing down knowledge the moment we let the State "educate" our children instead of wise, carefully chosen tutors and instructors. Parents don't want to teach their kids shit anymore, and the state funded schools are concerned with churning out serfs who can pay their taxes, get a job, comply with regulations, contribute to the GDP, vote, and bring more serfs into existence (preferably through fornication so they grow up fatherless).

>>105938171
Public education is an abomination. Parents who willingly let the state, who literally enslaves them, raise their children do not love their children.

What's a computer?

>>105938213
so what's the alternative? no education? kek. rugged individualism is literally what is destroying the US now.

>>105938337
Private schools, home school co-ops, in states with school choice the state gives back some of the money they steal from you to pay for these things.

>>105938147
I didn’t have this, but I didn’t go to school in America.

>>105938360
They control the education system in the US

>>105938355
>private schools
so the same shit with the same teachers, but not under the purview of government?
>home school
so incels?

I will never understand this insane cope. bad government doesn't mean you should throw it all away. all you'll get is bad, unaccountable not-government instead.

>>105938094
You should import another 20 gorillion niggers.

>>105938337
Home schooling. Of course, this greatly depends on the parents (or third party teachers) and their ability to teach, but in the age of the internet where you can download any book ever written for free and store thousands of said books on a small flash or even a cell phone drive it's literally never been easier in all of human history to become an autodidact. Learning is no longer gatekept by finances as it was in ages past. Nor is it gatekept by institutions as it was before the internet. Such institutions only continue because people have been conditioned to prefer being sheep.

>>105938413
Homeschool co-ops are organizations with other parents and children. Public school isn't just a waste of time and a bad education. It's actively an antieducation.

Millenials are the most heavily computered generation. Zoomers grew up primarily with phones and tablets and used GUIs that were designed to be so easy and accessible a baby could use them.

>>105938447
>Homeschool co-ops are organizations with other parents and children
wtf pedo insane bullshit is this?

>>105938337

How could "rugged individualism" be destroying anything when it's at all time lows? This nation has never been less ruggedly individualistic. Everyone is a titsucking state dependent little gremlin.

I had to explain the concept of changing batteries to a coworker the other day.

>>105938478
It's common and for those of us who don't want our children to be raised by state actors surrounded by niggers and spics

>>105938496
>having a job
laugh at him

>>105938119
I honestly don't understand those guides that tell you to create a random registry entry to fix a problem. How did they discover that particular entry solves it and why wasn't it there to begin with?

>>105937449
>group A: No single person can draw a circle
>group B: some can draw a circle other cannot
>group C: No single person can draw a circle
>AHAHAH GROUP B FAGS BTFO THEY SUCK SHIT LMAO CANT DRAW A CIRCLE - You
Retard.

>>105938478
>multiple families in a community cooperating to raise their children apart from government institutions
>"wtf pedo insane bullshit is this"
There are a lot more insane pedos in public schools than in local homeschool communities.

>>105938589

Oh no anon go send your children to the state funded prison style institution where they teach them how to be gay and trans, no grooming at all going on there

>>105938556
There must exist some documentation somewhere, and some people outside Microsoft must have access to it. Not MS support employees though, every thread us just the support guy saying "have you installed the latest updates? If you have and the problem isn't fixed, you're fucked. Have a nice day." And then some other guy replies wit an actual solution involving the registry or something.

>>105938622
Ancient esoteric knowledge left over from the 90s when Microsoft actually provided in depth docs for windows internals and api. Same shit with Apple, any knowledge of internals comes from a wildly outdated book from the turn of the century. There is no other source, and all new info comes from retarded marketing talks and the like.

RIP in depth useful documentation. No one bothers anymore, because no one is building a stable coherent system anymore. Why bother with docs when it's just another ephemeral pile of shit on top of an ever changing mountain of shit?

>>105938069
Back then if you wanted to learn anything you had to go out of your way to find someone or some institution to teach you.
It's not that the so called boomers aren't willing to teach, the new gens are unwilling to go out of their way to interact with people knowledgeable about some interests.
No, their online "friends" do not count

>>105937447
>>105937470
>falling for the journo slop propaganda
yeah, you're a brainrotted boomer alright.

>boomer -> boomer
>gen-x -> boomer
>millennial -> boomer
>zoomer -> zoomer
>alpha -> zoomer
Can we stop this?

>>105937447
youre doing the thing your dad does lol

>>105937447
>>105937444
imagine falling for this jewish d&c psyop, fucking retard.

>>105939040
>>105939124
you’re seething kek

>>105937611
From what I've seen people who don't understand technology at least at a surface level are the least able to leverage AI for anything other than as a replacement for watching TV.

>>105939304
you are seething zoomer, its not the jews fault you can’t stop sucking black dick all day

>>105939046
Not our fault that your generation is so retarded that the name for it is an effective insult, zoomer-kun.

>>105938476
also phones are locked down so that you can't even learn anything

Do zoomers think that we can’t just go on Twitter/Tiktok/Instagram and see their retardation on full display? Do they think there’s some gatekeep stopping us from looking at them mouthbreathe? LMAO

>incel millennials malding
Why don't you go buy some funko pops or watch some rick and morty or smoke some weed or something?

>>105939320
have sex + cope

I'm actually a fan of Generation Zyklon in many ways I'm just pointing out you fags need to up your technical abilities, embrace the computer and ditch the phonejew

>>105939532
>>105939411
lmfao do zoomers really?
>>105939544
>generation zyklon
you mean the biggest tranny generation? >>105939333

>>105937425 (OP)
We're 2-3 generations away from tech priests.

>>105939574
>zoomers don't party or drink
>zoomers don't have sex
>zoomers don't drive

literally what the fuck do they do all day?
they don't go outside either, i never see anyone under 30 outside anymore

>>105939749
Tiktok, Roblox, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube shorts, Twitch, Fortnite, Valorant, Apex Legends, Minecraft and porn.
That’s all they do.

they are the brownest generation yet so it follows that computers would be hostile to them

>>105938478
>so these families, they do homeschooling as a group-
>>WTF PEDOPEDOPEDOPEDOPEDOPEDO
The fuck is wrong with you zoomers?

>>105938447
>>105938478
>>105940752
back in the day we called that a "cult"

Normies are tech illiterate no matter the generation, simple as

>>105940802
You'd see a group of friends hanging out and call them a cult too.

>>105938437
>>105938447
I used to have a negative view on homeschooling but now that I am an adult and have kids (and have been through public school from pre to uni) I can see how times have changed. public schools are at best daycares where you dump your kid and hope they had a good day and achieved something. At worst you are leaving them to be abused by strangers who will neglect them or worse. Either way no one is actively developing your kid to be the best they can be and the only person left in the whole world these days is you, the parent.

>>105937425 (OP)
because of smartphones and dumbed down interfaces/technology in general. At the dawn of the www in the late 90's/ early 00s young adults were forced to use and manually setup client programs for protocols of various types, ranging from IMs, email, file sharing etc. Back then, hosting your own Homepage was todays equivalent of creating a social media profile. Today everything is being spoon fed to you through your phone. There exists a pre-made solution to virtually every problem, idea etc, you are just one swpie away. And now you also have media generator and agents running rampant. Everything about tech (and the web) just feels so corporate and fake,even when it comes to supposed indie Foss projects. The web has lost its charm the moment it gained mass adoption.

>>105939046
You either die a zoomer or live long enough to become a boomer

>>105937425 (OP)
you traded forums and IRC for DISCORD TRANNIES. your generation is PEAK RETARD

millennials are the boomers of the internet

>>105937425 (OP)
nigga these tweets sound like our parents, zoomers can definitely figure out how to rotate a pdf, if anything they don't know it's our fault for not teaching them

>>105942204
>you traded forums and IRC for DISCORD TRANNIES
yes we did, we got families and kids now and are tired of having to maintain endless infrastructure for mundane shit like muh group chats
if anything i'm most disappointed by our generation to teach zoomers shit, we failed in that regard to inspire the passion

>>105942308
there id no passion in software because software is yesterdays news

>>105937611
>internet breaks
>ai datacenter breaks
>aijeet literally dies because he can't even make instant noodles without ai guilding him
rest in piss

>>105937425 (OP)
I can't remember the last time I need to rotate a pdf but I know how to do it

>>105942261
so why did millennials figure everything out themselves, but zoomers supposedly cant only learn by being taught?

>>105939574
We have a legal system where a dishonest woman can easily destroy your life. Can't blame guys for playing safe.

>>105937425 (OP)
Same reason most of you can't cook or drive stick.

>>105937425 (OP)
everyone is tech illiterate, it's just the nerds who aren't
nerds are a minority

>>105937425 (OP)
I'm getting my second degree, currently with zoomers, most of them don't even knows how to set a workflow for sd.

>>105938213
The worst ones are the people that know it's fucked but put their children in it anyway. Like my (ex) friend:
>Faggot constantly watching political rage bait streamers and MSM rage bait on his Xbox console
>sits on his ass all day smoking pot and playing yu-gi-oh when he's not doing the above or at his do-nothing minimum wage job
>On food stamps and all kinds of gibs
>"The schools are fucked up anon and they're teaching my children propaganda."
>ask him why he sends them to public education if he's so worried about it
>he gets all pissed off and says "They'll lock me up! You don't understand because you don't have children!"
>Remind him I've raised multiple siblings and friend's children. Including his own so some extent
>Tell him to home school
>"I don't have time and you have to be rich!"
>Tell him my cousin with a full time job with more hours than the one he works that pays less money has been home schooling for 8+ years now
>offer to call her to get the information to help him get started
>claims they'll come and throw him in prison anyway or "baby mama will use it against me"
>ask him why he doesn't shoot them when they come
>he calls me crazy

The faggot doesn't want an actual solution to his problem. He doesn't want to teach his own children anything. He'll always claim everything is impossible for him because he's too poor or doesn't have the time. Despite spending hundreds of dollars a month on his various addictions (weed, gaming, TV/entertainment and whatever else he's doing that I don't know about). He constantly bitches about the Government, state, police and "the system". But he'll never do anything real to keep it out of his own life. He's not going to grow his own food or teach his own children or defend his own family using firearms. Despite constantly talking about how muh firearms is keeping the state already run amok in check.

All he will do is vote harder then complain about the results.

Zoomers are basically this but in front of their pads

>>105937447
I never learned how to use a scanner because my teachers didn't allow me to try it when I asked. If I ever have to use one I'd probably figure it out on my own fairly quickly, but I think it's dumb to expect people to know exactly how to use every piece of tech when they've never interacted with it before.
t. 99 zoomer

>>105937425 (OP)
too busy trying to be sociopathic retards and training for / actively competing in the oppression olympics

>>105937447
Yeah, no one taught them, dipshit. You did a self own and you're to much of a millennial hipster narcissist to realize it

The one thing that bugs me the most about the generations that came after mine are their inability to ignore things they don't like. They constantly bitch and moan about anything that offends them and they're the biggest bunch of snitches we've ever had to deal with on this planet.

These retards think 2 paragraphs is a "wall of text" and a "rant" because they don't have proper keyboards and pointing devices. They're addicted to endless scrolling but they don't seem to understand they can just scroll by shit that doesn't interest them. So they shit up every place they go crying about what other people have posted and they demand censorship to keep it off "their" feeds.

>97 replies and not a single one is about how to rotate a pdf
you are all zoomers

>>105944431
For me it's pdf-view-rotate-clockwise

>>105937447
Tech literacy is indeed declining among the generations who grew up only on sleek app touchscreens. But that collage just shows journo clickbait shit. That tweet about the "save icon" is especially fake, a kid wouldn't recognize the shape, especially without color.

>>105939304
>da joooz
>it's D&C!!!
Back to pol election tourist zoomie.

>>105937425 (OP)
both of these people seem tech illiterate, so it's blind leading the blind.

>THE ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO ROTATE A PDF DIES WITH US
This statement is extremely onions. I can't believe millenials unironically say this.
>>105944431
Press the rotate pdf button?

>>105937425 (OP)
stop talking about the rotating pdfs already

ITT: Malding boomers cannot cope with their age, compensate by strawmanning zoomers based on a few clickbaity articles and bad hiring practices in their workplaces.

>>105939723
You're on to something here.

>>105938478
> homeschool co-ops -> pedos
> public schools -> no pedos

spotted the jew. what a fucking retard

>>105945242
Is piracy dead?

>>105937425 (OP)
EVERYONE SHUT UP RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!

I have this wisdom to dispense to disgruntled and deserving boomers, useful idiot gen xers and millenials, and soft hearted zoomers gas lit into thinking these threads are organic.

THAT WISDOM IS THE DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO OPS RIGGED QUESTION
thats right there IS an answer that explains everything that is not caustic to zoomies

In the hayday of the millenial and genX computer enthusiast, the rise of the internet, and everything that came with it, was an opportunity to hide from, and avoid censure by authorities. No not the fucking glowies and jews retard, though sure. Parents, School teachers, Baby sitters, Jocks. The widespread adoption of the internet created a vaccuum as people rushed to it as though it where the americas themselves to both carve out a life or social space free from the influence of others.

THERE WAS ALMOST NO FINANCIAL INCENTIVE TO MAKE THIS PROCESS THAT EASY

Windows and early unix made computers more user friendly, but this was for business work environment reasons. everything else was done by HOBBIESTS. everything from piracy to shitposting, represented freedom, but to get to that freedom you needed a certain skill set.

what is TL:DR is THE SKILL SET THAT LET YOU BE FREE ON LINE ISN'T NECISSARY ANYMORE

for most retarded zoomies, they load up discord, and maybe element/riot if theyre edgelords, and thats IT. they don't have to learn to hide files on their computer, you can get detachable storage in the terabytes. you don't need to know how an operating system works or how to enable dial up, you don't need to know any skills to pry open the guts because fundamentally none of this stuff works anymore unless you are a l33t hacker. the age of the script kiddie is mostly fucking over. when I was in middle school you could bypass all the safegaurds with a single proxy, and copy paste system files directly without protection including liscenced software!!!!
that software RAN AS IS. THATS ALL OVER.

>>105944415
Why the fuck would it fall to Millennials to educate zoomers? They aren't their parents

>>105945531
I'm on linucks :(

>>105945242
>bro actually gets baited into posting a proof that he can indeed rotate a fucking pdf

>>105938476
This is the actual answer. Millennials just happened to grow up at the right time before computers became locked down walled gardens meant only for consumption. You actually had to have at least some understanding of how they worked to use them. Plus all the opportunities for fun and shenanigans before everything was so srs bzns.

>>105946058
we weren't the first to grow up around computers you had to learn to use, but we were the last

>>105937611
The utter state
wall-e tier human being

>>105938024
this, recently I was helping my mom to set up something on her work laptop that was running windows 11. It took me way longer than it should have because some jeet decided to screw over decades of muscle memory for no reason whatsoever

>>105940008
Do you blame them? They are surfs and will never own a home. Escapism is the logical conclusion for anyone not born to rich parents. Dark times ahead.

>>105937425 (OP)
Im not surprised most people today are braindead. I mean look 40% uses the AI without it they can't do anything and if you can't even use software which usually have documentation or you can't read then you are an idiot. That is still while using Windows ... those people wouldn't be able to handle basic stuff in Linux at all.

>>105944415
millennials taught themselves, and millennials aren’t the parents of zoomers, retarded zoomgroid

>>105946349
>something
uhuh, this totally happened

>>105939040
Zoomers are so obvious because they have special snowflake syndrome, so any generalized critiques are always taken personally even when they don't apply because besides being tech-illiterate, Zoomers are massive narcissists.

>>105938171
>he says when Youtube has more information about any topic imaginable, more in depth and practical than any college course
You have the Library of Alexandria and you're mad your mommy and daddy didn't drag you to it and make you read.

>>105937449
Gen Alpha is based because they're realizing they don't want to be childless wine aunts like Millennials and useless incel dead weights like Zoomers.

>>105937425 (OP)
lets see, they would have needed to have been using compters between at ages of 8-12 but by 2008-2012 smartphone have been widely adopted for internet use instead, so there was no need for tech skills unlike previous generations

>>105946751
>between at ages
>smartphone have been
pajeet opinion discarded

>>105937425 (OP)
That's because they added computer literacy classes to schools for a few years and then removed them before Gen Z was old enough to take them. Seriously, even a half-semester class just about basic computer operation would do wonders.

>>105946761
>would have have been*
Jesus Christ when did this site care to much about spelling and pajeets

>>105937425 (OP)
Ask a zoomer IRL what they learned about computers in school. Millennials unironically had better computer education.

>>105937425 (OP)
It's actually not particularly zoomers. In every age group, social class and race, i have encountered only few who actuallly know what they're doing on the technical device they use and how it works. This is due to the fact that most people are actual retards and have a severely hampered ability to figure shit out on their own.
t. zoomer at techfirm

You'd think zoomies would have more experience with pdf files.

My early computer exposure was coding LUA for Roblox and modding Minecraft

>>105937425 (OP)
A literal zoomer runs the "It's Viral" account.

>>105945732
It’s even easier, you can just do qpdf --rotate=90 input.pdf output.pdf

>>105944415
>Yeah, no one taught them

>>105944415
>I can’t learn anything unless someone sits me down and puts subway surfers alongside the lecture so that I pay attention
LMAO

>>105937997
>shit UX is shit UX. Most corp shitware I've dealt with is shit UX that ends up getting worked around one way or another.
Unfortunately, corpos & startups alike exclusively hire shitty ux people. UX is the most gate kept and nepotistic career in tech and this destroys the user experience.

>>105937436
the fact you got two immediate angry replies confirms it lel

>>105937425 (OP)
Want real answer?
Millennials had computers when the OS'es were still garbage cobbled together. Which meant things broke, a lot.
Fixing these issues gave them the skills to troubleshoot things on their own, in the process gaining valuable computer (technology in general actually)

Boomers were too old to learn this stuff

zoomers are too young to have experienced this era. Everything is well optimized so things almost never break.
Also AI giving them literal brainrot

>>105947998
>zoomers are retarded? NOPE ITS JUST INDIANS
cope harder zoomie

>>105938355
>Private schools, home school co-ops, in states with school choice

Oh yeah, whole lotta tech knowledge in the fucking bible.

If you really wanna have fun ask a zoomer to delete a page from a pdf

>>105937447
I'm gen-z and I've literally never seen someone my own age not be able to do these things.

>>105949257
>I'm a seething zoomer

>>105938556
>I honestly don't understand those guides that tell you to create a random registry entry to fix a problem. How did they discover that particular entry solves it and why wasn't it there to begin with?
Broadly speaking, you run a program with instrumentation enabled, looking for registry keys it attempted to use but that didn't exist. These may be hidden settings, features not "officially" supported, or features developers added, but that for whatever reason, didn't make the final cut. They can also be things support can turn on to make your IT department's life easier if your org pays for a support contract (etc, etc...). Often the name of the registry key gives some hint (ForceListView, etc).

>>105937447
That’s just clickbait garbage, red meat for millennials and boomers

I TA'd for graduate level (PhD, Masters, etc.) level courses in a computational field. From experience, the proto-iPad kiddies who don't know what a folder is have already completed undergrad and are in the workforce or obtaining advanced degrees. God help you if you try to correct them (even if it's your fucking job as the instructor) since they grew up being able to browbeat their teachers into passing them or else.

Because the world changed and their parents never adapted to such changes, so they think zoomers can figure it out on their own like millenials and don't make an effort to teach or learn anything, without realizing zoomers don't have a need to learn it either.
On the early days, computers had limited functionality and scope, so boomers and gen X didn't had much needs to learn the tech outside of specific use cases. Millenials grew up on peak internet and tech evolution era, computers were more oriented to everyday personal use, so there was a strong incentive to learn how to use the tech. Zoomers grew with the rise of the iPhone and apps, and since it just works, they have not much need to learn how things functions.
but IMO the real reason is that tech was always a niche field. Even among millenials, the group of people that knows how to troubleshoot is small. Sure, millenials had strong incentives, but so did their parents, and look at them. No one wants to learn how to use a PC, which is why shit like Mac is popular, you just use it, you don't have to learn how it works behind the curtain. Hell, even PC building is following this path. Mouse pointer on a BIOS? Colored front-panel cables? Extra space for hide the cables? It follows the same principle.

>>105947855
wouldn't that be distracting?

>>105951914
you couldn't just do everything with an instantly-loading "free" web service or now an ai chatbot either. if you say, wanted to edit a picture with more than mspaint, you mostly likely wanted photoshop, but you couldn't afford that, so you learned how to get it for free, so you learned about piracy/torrents/gnutella
you install a handful of games and now your 10GB hdd is full, so you learn how to find and clean up space, again using third party tools because the cleanup tool in windows doesn't handle much, not even installed applications
when something goes wrong or things slow down you have to figure it out because your computer cost $2,000, not $200
etc, etc

>>105938119
everything should be governed by a single .cfg file

>>105952045
thanks you invented the registry

>>105937425 (OP)
Most people are tech illiterate

>>105952492
Zoomers are at the same level of boomers though, I had a 26 year old who didn't even know how to change a wallpaper.

>>105953986
Yea this never happened

>>105953993
Yeah it did, I changed the wallpaper for them and they were amazed you could do it.

zoomzoom
now mid twenties
and still dummies

>>105946702
source?

>>105944431
I feel like the blame for this should go to Adobe, not zoomers.