Thread 106333553

Will millenials be the first and last tech literate generation? What happens when the last millennial dies?

History keeps spinning

>>106333553 (OP)
Fuck off, Gen X was the first. We already had our computers when you been still pooping your pants.

Millenials are all fucking retards who have destroyed computing and hardware.
They unironically program everything in shell and python.

>>106333592
Only a minority of Gen X were exposed to computers, compared to the masses of millennials. There's a reason why Gen X is often called the forgotten generation.

They'll just clone us.

>>106333553 (OP)
The vast majority of millennials aren't tech literate either.

>>106333553 (OP)
Millenials are literal bedshitters that made tech be the piece of shit that it is today. Boomers paved the way to glory but you decided to fill it with cloud shit, AI shit, advertisement shit, as-a-service shit, subscription shit, NFT shit, internet of things shit, etc. Now zoomers and gen alpha will have to live with your mistakes

>>106333656
Millennials like to pat themselves on the back at every opportunity. They should be called the MEllennials.

>>106333656
>>106333663
>>106333669
t.

>>106333629
>They unironically program everything in shell and python.
It just works.

>>106333637
>last Gen X been turning 18 in 1999
What do you think we did with our time back then?
Gen X was the first generation who had kids growing up with computers their entire life from toddler to adulthood.
>There's a reason why Gen X is often called the forgotten generation.
That's just because popular media focuses on the quarrels between Zoomers and Boomers. The entire word "Zoomer" was coined on this BS.

>>106333705
Coping hard, irrelevant gener.

zoomers can't even take screenshots

>>106333720
OK baby

As a zoomer: it's actually the old gen X guys who were the biggest computer wizards. Think about the whole demoscene or early exploits. They had to write it all in asm. Millennials had it easier so they didn't focus on low level stuff but on Python and cloudshit. Then you've got zoomers. Most of them are cooked when it comes to computers but those terminally online with no life are some of the best programmers available.

But face it - it's not actually about the generation but about the 'tism. Computer nerds were always icky.

>>106333803
>but those terminally online with no life are some of the best programmers available
Holy deluision. 99% of zoomers don't even know how a file structure works.

>>106333553 (OP)
some richshit will make ycombinator 2.0 where they brainwash college dropouts and turn them into worthless UX "consultants"
brought to you by the silicone toy valley

>>106333820
>most literate millennial
I was clearly talking about the remaining 1% dipshit

>>106333820
>ignore first half of sentence which outlines your post already
>le 99%
>le xitter
kill yoself my nigga

>>106333553 (OP)
Just watch the documentary Idiocracy.
Everything will be AI controlled and body will have any idea how it works or even care.

Kill all xcucks. Sanctimonious hypocrites and responsible for 90% of the things they blame zoomers and millenials for.
I'm legitimately glad they're going to end up in multicultural care homes, neglected and beaten.

This is my message. Goodbye.

>>106333847
>>106333853
Seething broccoli heads kek

>>106333870
>>106333874
Why makes millennials want to fight with every generation, even gen Z which didn't have an influence on them growing up?

>>106333893
What makes.

>>106333874
have you considered reddit?

>>106333893
Go back to tiktok.

>>106333874
>>106333911
I'm a broccoli head. I know assembly and CUDA. What do you know? How to print a file? How to groom other zoomers on Discord?

>>106333637
Depends on the country and exact dates.
I'm from '78 and from The Netherlands.
Computers were still quite rare in 1990 but the vast majority had one by 2000
Anyone who had a computer before 1995 learned to use the command line.

>>106333637
>There's a reason why Gen X is often called the forgotten generation.
Because we didn't get the government handouts boomers got.
But that only made us stronger.

>>106333693
Beautiful millennial self portrait.

>>106333922
Poor puppy, Kai Cenat is offline, that's why you're here?
You're browsing a site created by a millennial. Don't like it? You know where the door is.

>>106333629
>They unironically program everything in shell and python.
Based

>>106333974
>Poor puppy, Kai Cenat is offline, that's why you're here?
>You're browsing a site created by a millennial. Don't like it? You know where the door is.

Zoomers are still mostly computer literate. It's alphas who have been raised on ipads and don't know shit
Shit like this for example >>106333820 is clearly talking about alphas. Zoomers aren't "kids" in 2024 anymore
t. zoomer

>>106333592
My (Millennial) Boomer Aunt & Uncle taught me to use a computer and then I had to teach my Gen X parents.

>>106334027
Why are you wasting time wanking how great your generation (but not (you)) is? You've got some walls to paint gray left.

>>106333705
Went I was in school circa 2000 only maybe 10-15% of the kids had a home computer. and I'm a late millennial , not everybody grew up in silicon valley faggot.

Even normie millenials know how to pirate and use torrents.

Only alphas unironically soiduel anymore

>>106333553 (OP)
I'm honestly curious about the distribution of tech litteracy per generation. I'm assuming most tend to overlap administration know-how of the most widespread device type with tech savviness, which is a logical fallacy.

>>106333950
>no u
great comeback, clown

>>106333553 (OP)
nonsense, i'm genx and i repaired everything for millenials.
what the fuck do you "repair" in computers these days, there's nothing to soldier, not that anobody knows or have tools to soldier current boards or psus.
you don't have irqs, you don't have jumper settings you don't have 10 pci devices, you don't crimp network cables or manually set network devices

so wtf are you exactly "repairing"

>>106333553 (OP)
I'm Gen-X and I know WAY more than millenials. In every aspect imaginable.

>>106333637
What software exactly have you written? You sound like David Hogg screaming about adults being stupid because they don't know how to use apps. Being a consumer isn't being an expert. It's just consumption.

>>106333705
Most gen xers didn't have a computer. Home computers weren't fully mainstream until Windows 95, by which time most gen xers were full grown adults.

>>106335302
Most Zoomers don't have a computer, if you don't count smartphones as "computer".

>>106333637
>He copes this much

>>106333637
>There's a reason why Gen X is often called the forgotten generation.
Isn't the forgotten generation literally like the great-grandparents of the boomers?

>>106335321
Yes, that's correct. The only generation that really grew up with ubiquitous computer usage was mid to late millennials. I'm early millennial and it was still the minority that had computers on the home as kids.

>>106335361
there's no cope there, fucking worthless genx'r. your generation is so useless that all the other ones forget you even exist.

>>106333553 (OP)
You just ask an Apple genius or something.

>>106335546
fr. when JD Vance becomes president we will have officially skipped over the entire gen x generation.

>>106333693
@grok is this true?

>>106335583
@grok context?

>>106333592
>Gen X was the first
What's your point? If you were to graph the number of people who are tech literate by age it would form a bell curve centered around the millennial generation. The fact you were there first is irrelevant. There are more of us than there are of you.

>>106335583
>>106335609
call him by his proper title of MechaHitler.

>>106334429
You're bragging about setting jumpers and crimping network cables.

>>106333592
Alan Turing was a part of the greatest generation you demented boomer.

>>106335619
Gen X weren't the first like he claims anyway. The first home computers were owned and used by boomers, exceptionally rare but still the first. Then as you said it becomes a bell curve, peaking with millennials before tapering down again.

>>106334093
This but unironically

The only known research on this topic shows that Gen Z is about equal to Gen Y in tech literacy https://databoks.katadata.co.id/en/telecommunications/statistics/ff4e5bb253109e5/60-percent-of-gen-z-possesses-a-high-digital-literacy-index

>>106333592
(You) yes, your generation as a whole, no.

>>106335867
>https://databoks.katadata.co.id/en/telecommunications/statistics/ff4e5bb253109e5/60-percent-of-gen-z-possesses-a-high-digital-literacy-index
no-cap, get in the bucket

>>106333629
>They unironically program everything in shell and python.
Projects are meant to be completed not fumble around for decades chasing down compile errors in C.

>>106333592
not to the same extent as millennials. yes, you were the first "family tech" generation, but only a small subset of you.
i'm a core millennial and these days any time my gen x friends need help with their computer, they ask me. they were fucking with config.sys and trading floppies when i was a baby, but these days they seem to just be over it, no interest anymore. i'm starting to feel it as well, i have minimal interest in new developments these days. i do hope at least i never have to ask someone else to look at something on my own computer though. if that ever happens i'll know it's over for me

>>106336180
That will only happen if you get legit dementia. If you can still use your brain a bit, it's easier than ever with search engines, all the stack exchange sites and AI to do it yourself.

>>106333803
cracker groups and the demoscene which evolved from it was always super niche, in terms of actually being involved with it and not just benefiting from it. it's not like a significant portion of people with a computer in 1992 had the first clue how to write an efficient scroller

>>106333669
>They should be called the MEllennials.
Certified boomer post

Millenials are the basedboy funkpop generation, nothing more nothing less.

>>106336258
And yet you came crawling to a Millennial site. Curious!

>>106333922
New to thread, here's my project I work on now:
C, QuakeC, 3d modeling, mapping, sfx, music, etc.
>https://sf.net/projects/chaose
>squeanthology/
/millenial

Knowing and doing are 2 different things.
Doing means you actually know.
Knowing means you only think you do.

>>106333922
New to thread, here's my project I work on now:
C, QuakeC, 3d modeling, mapping, sfx, music, etc.
>https://sf.net/projects/chaose
>squeanthology/
/millenial

Knowing and doing are 2 different things.
Doing means you actually know.
Knowing means you only think you do.

>>106336204
i hope so. and to be more clear, millennials were just born at the right time that a significant number of us grew up with a computer in the home. said computers were certainly easier to use than the ones in the '80s i agree, but few people had commodore 64's and amigas, lets be honest.
i don't believe at all that there's something special about my or any generation really in terms of innate capabilities, it's just a matter of what we were exposed to at the time we were exposed to it and how it applies to today. we grew up with what became the bedrock of modern computing, not the 8-bit era, not the 16-bit era, but the pc clone era, which persists to this day.
also i should add that even growing up people came to me for computer help. i'm absolutely not saying most millennials can into computer.
>>106336245
war. war never changes.
sorry, wrong meme.

>>106335546
>there's no cope there, fucking worthless genx'r. your generation is so useless that all the other ones forget you even exist.
It's because gen X are seen as an evil generation.
The moment they could: they were murdering people in the 1980s, as young teenagers.
They also supported feminism so that they could get "easy pussy". They were "fine" with homosexuality. Their women all fucked "the band" and hated any male who wasn't "the band".

A gen X woman is the reason Hans Reiser is in prison. Their first God was lucifer, and their present God is Jesus (the morning star). Gen X women are, in generality, brash feminist whores, angry, and bitchy.

They think young girls are "disgusting", and "well used" women are all anyone needs. They gave their daughters to mexicans and blacks: while being ready to call the police on any white male in their clan who would marry them.

They hate YHWH and love Jesus. The Old Testament is passe to them, the new testament is where it's at.
They are the majority of those seething about Epstine.
Their offspring, Alpha, are those who took over Linux and Free Software for trans and feminists.
And booted the old Hackers out.

An evil scumbag generation.
Only the metal heads in it are any good.

>>106333553 (OP)
ZoomDEITY here. I am more tech-literate than half of this board at this point. The thing with millenials being good with computers is a meme. A fair share of millenials that I know irl struggle with typing on a keyboard and can't even mount iso file without my help.

>>106336169
>projects are ment to be completed
Quake begs to differ.
It was ment to be much more than it was at release: QuakeC was created as Quake was ment to be more of a complete simulator.

Do you understand?

>>106334074
That just means those kids were poor. The home computer was ubiquitous in the west by 2000. Nothing to do with silicon valley.

>>106336433
>ZoomDEITY here. I am more tech-literate than half of this board at this point. The thing with millenials being good with computers is a meme. A fair share of millenials that I know irl struggle with typing on a keyboard and can't even mount iso file without my help.

Ok, so why don't I see you here:
>https://sf.net/projects/chaose
>squeanthology/
It's distributed exclusively as ISO files, BTW, dipshit.

You'll now diss the project as "beneath" you, while not showing any of the projects you work on,
or ignore my post completely since you do not have a counter.

>>106335937
Where is the lie? You can have other smaller buckets if you want to organize you shit but a root folder is literally the big bucket with everything in it

>>106336494
As I said, You'll ignore my post since you don't have a counterpoint. So I will repeate it.:
>>106336433
>ZoomDEITY here. I am more tech-literate than half of this board at this point. The thing with millenials being good with computers is a meme. A fair share of millenials that I know irl struggle with typing on a keyboard and can't even mount iso file without my help.

Ok, so why don't I see you here:
>https://sf.net/projects/chaose
>squeanthology/
It's distributed exclusively as ISO files, BTW, dipshit.

You'll now diss the project as "beneath" you, while not showing any of the projects you work on,
or ignore my post completely since you do not have a counter.

>>106333570
I'm the only real person. All of history is just simulated a bit like the start of a Dwarf Fortress game. Everyone else is an npc here to make this world seem real while I enjoy the human experience. When I wake up from this simulation I will keep the 4chuds around because you guys were at least honest in your shit slinging. Maybe I'll create chud utopia for you lot to piss around in.

>>106336512
>>OH MY HECKING FAGBOOK PHP MILLENIAL GODS YOU HECKING ZOOMER LUA-BLOX NIGGERS WILL NEVER KNOW

I code C and QuakeC mostly.
You ignore my project and pretend my posts don't exist.

>https://sf.net/projects/chaose
>squeanthology/

I used to code Perl more, and just a little C.

>>106336513
The fuck does that have to do with zoomers correctly thinking a folder is a bucket schizo?

>>106336530
I don’t care about you, this was my first post in this thread (laughing face emoji) (puking emoji)

>>106333553 (OP)
I don't wanna fix anyone's computer
This is all millennials fault for making shit easy enough for babies to use and then draining every cent from those babies using addiction and brainrot content

>>106333974
>>106336270
>Millennials coded 4chan and facebook!!! Zoomies have not coded a SINGLE social media AIsloppa for siphoning ad money from divorced boomers!!!
I would not really brag about this desu

>>106336721
>zoomcuck reading comprehension
Sad!

>>106333553 (OP)
funny pic

I wish death to every single zoomer on earth.

p.s. zoomer = too young to remember 9/11

>millenials
>tech literate
what?
I am a millenial myself, and I have hardly met any other tech-literate millenials at all.
If there is a tech-literate generation is the one that preceded us, you know, the ones who developed the whole computer ecosystem that underlies the shit that we use today.

>>106336494
ok zoomie

>>106336858
>ERMAHGAWD THE MUSLIMS LITERALLY TRIED TO KILL ME AND MY POKEMON. ZOOMER ROT JET FUEL MEMES ARENT HECKING FUNNY STOP IT!!!

>>106333592
>>106333705
>>106333803
>>106334429
Based, never forget the ethernet's roots. Gen X will go down as the pioneers of the worldwide web and let there be no historical revision in this thread.

>>106333553 (OP)
Zoomers will just ask AI what a folder is.

>>106337396
So where is the lie?

>>106333570
really jogs the noggin

>>106333820
I don't believe someone could own and operate a computer without understanding file structures at a basic level. I don't think even Mac OS can shield you from that.

>>106337654
*siiips* yup, I remember my obsession with analog, and eventually, it transformed into a deep love with computers

>millenials
zoomshit thread

>>106333592
A small fraction of Gen Xers were and are more computer literate than most millenials could ever hope to be due to the fact that using/programming a computer meant understanding how it worked and interacting with it on a low level, but the percentage of computer literate millenials is much higher. I do get what you mean, though; boomers and zoomers are the issue.

>>106333629
As a millennial, I'm embarrassed by this part of our generation's legacy.

It's not that millenials are more tech savvy, just that the ones of us that knew how to operate a pc (aka "reading what the fuck is written on the damn screen and searching around menus") looked like hacking gods to normoloids. We were never, on average, better with computers just used to tangentially operate them because we grow up with them doing baseline shit. The family technical support guy meme isn't tied to a specific generation.

>>106333553 (OP)
How do you even define tech literacy in this context? Zoomers and alphas are at great disadvantage when it comes to tech that came before them just as millenials and X's would be in their position trying to figure out computer stuff from the 60's or what have you.

Zoomers are fluent in the current slop and that's good enough to get them by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUj1EZwpJY
This is the most depressing talk I've ever watch it literally makes me want to kill myself.

>>106337898
Pretty much this.
Boomers are too high on jewish semen and zoomers don't have the attention span to stop and think of how to phrase their problem as a Google search (or ChatJeetPT query) and even if they did they don't have the attention span to follow a simple list of instructions. All we really have is the basic competence humans used to have..

>>106337667
fr fr, no-cap. on god. bussin.

>>106338302
Still waiting. What's the matter? Can't do it?

gen x will spend the rest of their lives apologising for giving birth to gen z

>>106333553 (OP)
Tech literacy has nothing to do with generation and everything to do with how you were raised. There are tech literate people in every generation, it's just at different concentrations. I'd say mid-late millenials and early zoomers have the highest concentration just due to the state the internet was in and attitudes towards technology but you absolutely can raise a tech literate child in current year.
Also, millenials have a pretty decent number of tech literates but don't pretend for even one second that they make up the majority of the generation. Probably 20-30% at best

>>106333553 (OP)
The only generational fight should be everyone vs boomers. Yes millennials are the only tech literate generation, and even they have been greatly dumbed down since smart phones came out. It's not the fault of Gen Z or Alpha that nobody was around to teach them. The enemy is the boomer who to this day prevents Millenials and even Gen X from having the power to help and pass skills onto the younger generations.

>>106338421
That's on early millenials also.

>>106333592
Gen X computer nerds put millennials to shame, it's true, but a much higher % millennials were tech literate and it makes more sense to talk of them broadly as "a tech-literate generation"

Being able to install a program or search a solution online isn't impressive. You don't deserve a job just because you can do the basics on a computer or because you can install a different operating system, you can teach a monkey to click an icon. It is embarassing that people think this is a skill, the only reason zoomers don't all use a computer is because they have phones not because they're incapable

>>106339648
I would believe you if I didn’t watch thousands of dollars a day get lost due to employees not being able to do basic problem solving with Microsoft. I deserve at least 200k for being able to write a python script

>>106333553 (OP)
>What happens when the last millennial dies?
You guys are scrooood, zoomie!

Generational shitflinging is low IQ behavior, especially when it comes to transitional years between "generations".

>>106333637
>>106333637
"minority"
Listen dicklips, when Quake came out, EVERYONE got a fucking computer and then 3d accelerators made everything take off like a rocket. The "minority" were the early adopters playing shit like Mechwarrior in '89 on DOS, on their dad's tech. Learn history and try again. Apparently the best part of your brains dried up on your mother's thighs the night we were cursed with your father being drunk enough to aim for a wet spot.


>>106336494
It's a fucking tree, nimrod, not a bucket, you make branches to filesystems that you grow and cultivate like a fucking bonsai tree. hence, ROOT. Now do the world a goddamn favor and stop breathing.

>>106333922
What's stopping you from getting a decent haircut?

>>106333925
'80, Brazil. Computers were rare because they cost a fortune - and importing them was literally illegal from '84 to '91. But then this "computers are the future" awareness boomed. So even if you couldn't afford one, people took computer classes.

About the only thing school did a good job of teaching was computer use. And the classes like that only exists for a pretty narrow period. Nothing like it before or since. But even then most others I know my age are just as helpless with computers as the younger and older cohorts.

>>106340761
Uma delicia.

>>106333705
We can play that game too. I'm a Millennial, and I turned 17 in 2000. This whole generation thing is so dumb. It should just be by decade, born in the 70s vs. born in the 80s.

>>106333629
Shell is the epitome of "I just need this thing to work." It gets you where you want to be the fastest, with the least work done. Why do you have a problem with that?

>>106340482
buckets are just another way to envision a filesystem view in a 3D space, why are you so mad about it? to be you seem like the type to jack off at home doing some sekrit club oldfag larp while your local high school chad was making out with and fondling your oneitis at a party you weren't invited to

>>106333592
I'm an X-ennial and started on an 8086 or 8088.
I think of gen X computers being amiga, tandy, "pre modern" computers, but I suppose the 8086 instruction set is just a bastardized version of a bastardized version of something going back to the 70s. And moving forward in time, he modern intel instruction set is just continuing the same awful lineage.

I do believe the 8086 (intel, 1978) was a significant date since it became the 286, 386, 486, pentium and so on, which was quite a time.

The other significant thing was the first "real" gpu with multiple pixel pipelines (nvidia, 1998) and is/was a major trend
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT

>>106335793
>The first home computers were owned and used by boomers
Hell I know this one for a fact, my grandfather is a tail end silent gen and he does shit with computers I can't even describe. He unironically rawdogs a Unix OS with no UI but a terminal.

>>106333592
My gen X parents literally don't even know how to use a desktop or laptop computer. They might be able to turn one on, but good luck getting them to shut it down properly. Their first experience was computing with their phones, which they also don't know how to use.

>>106333553 (OP)
the oldest zoomers are nearly 30, we know how to use computers retard

>>106333592
>Gen X was the first.
>Lead addled boomer thinking they were first anything
Your only claim to fame is Grunge.

>>106341933
Best Amiga demoscene programmers were straight up Gen X, particularly scandinormies.

>>106339648
What's that cockroach gonna do to that dog?

>>106336519
How could an artifice be honest or dishonest? It's just doing what it was made to do.

>>106336858

what are you going to do throw old glue tubes to fire for movie tier insurance scam

>>106333553 (OP)
There is no point in being tech literate now. Everything is fucking garbage and steals your data
Being life literate means you hate the greedy tech kikes
The internet is a joke a normie and glownigger hellscape
>>106333637
There is a reason millennials hitting the internet was called the eternal September

>>106335302
1994 was 1984

>>106336433
>more tech-literate than half of this board
That makes you a retard

>>106333637
Are you retarded? All of the greatest software and video games ever made were made by Gen X devs

>>106342517
You are arguing in a retarded thread for retards. And porting doom 50 times isn’t good software development

>>106333553 (OP)
>what happens
nothing

It's them gyosh darn phones

Good post OP, you triggered way more zoomies than I expected.

As a millennial I always looked up to the gen x guys

but more importantly

GENERATIONAL WARFARE IS STUPID AF
IT'S LIKE BELIEVING IN ASTROLOGY
SOICETY IS COMPLEX, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT, PROGRAMMER

>>106344355
Too many phones

>>106344845
>GENERATIONAL WARFARE IS STUPID AF
Indeed, focus on improving yourself somehow
Zooms have potential, Alphas may be "cooked" so they say. Imagine being born in last few years and never knowing a world without pervasive internet & AI sloppa. We in fo a wild ride yo

>>106336494
most intelligent zoomer

whats worse is that gen is into digimon a cartoon about maliciously hacking your friends with keyloggers and shit

>>106333553 (OP)
>Will millenials be the first and last tech literate generation?
hopefully, anti-social trash like m-muh tech muh computers is a curse upon mankind
go touch grass instead

>>106333553 (OP)
Pre-iphone zoomer here: A surprising number of millennials are not tech-literate. You can not like this, but it's true. I would say every generation had its tech literate crowd, millennials just had the most. However, I will acknowledge - begrudgingly - growing up using computers pre-gui endowed you with a connection to the machine that even the most literate from other generations struggles to achieve. I will also point out that boomers who created the very shoulders you stood upon have an even deeper and more holistic connection, albeit rare as that may be.
>Yet for some reason you guys completely fucking suck at getting AI to do what you want which I find fascinating
I routinely see even competent millennials struggle to command AI to create things for them in a week, that I could do in an hour. In a different sense, zoomers have a deeper connection to how the new machines work than you do. Odd.

>>106349840
I don't use AI so I'm not sure what the difference is between how we use it and how they use it. Do Millenials go "spaghetti recipe, tomato sauce, bacon" and zoomers say "I want a spaghetti recipe but I only have tomato sauce and bacon for ingredients"

that's the difference I've seen in googling, not sure if it's the same for AI

>>106334093
You are quite insane, comrade.

>>106336480
they werent poor, parents just didnt need or use one, you act like everybody had a pc, but it just isnt true.
says 51 % of households in the us had a computer in 2000, with only 41.5% having internet. go back 3 years and its only 36%|18%

I live in a rural area, so its not surprising it was lower.

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2001/demo/p23-207.pdf

>>106333592
>muh Gen X!!!
kill yourself xoomer

>>106349920
>comrade
Please calmy proceed to the nearest End-of-Life Assistance Booth for further guidance thank you and have a great day

Just to be clear, I was born in 1995, which side I'm supposed to passionately defend?

>>106333803
>old gen X guys who were the biggest computer wizards
this is true
as a millennial this is who i learned from anyways so im not complainin

>>106333553 (OP)
We are literate in obsolete tech. I feel like an old many trying to use these newfangled gadgets. About the limit of my ability with a smartphone is watching YouTube. I have no idea of young people do various computing tasks on these things.

>>106336494
You don't typically sort buckets like that though. Windows 95 got it right making their DE mimic an actual desktop and their directories resemble a file cabinet.

>>106333553 (OP)

I am a Zoomer on the older side, but I don't need no cringellennials in order to get my PC fixed.

>>106344845
>>106347957
the problem really seems like the marketing people still dont know what younger generations want, because they dont even know where the generational boundaries even are anymore
so they subject us all to generational warfare to pressure us into doing the work for them, establishing those boundaries for them for free
get a group to identify with one thing, sell them that thing "they" do but the other group doesnt, etc.

>>106333592
>Gen X
Who?

>>106333553 (OP)
lmao

>>106333820
>99% of zoomers don't even know how a file structure works.
He already said that, genius.

>>106333637
How old is Gen X now?

>>106354110
Mid-40s to 60s, I think.

>>106354135
Shit I'm 41 does that mean I'm Gen X? I can refill your printer cartridge.

>>106333553 (OP)
tech savvy gen x mogs every single one of them, but yeah average gen y is generally better.

>>106354229
you're early millennial

>>106354229
>>106354313
Or a "Xenial".
I was born in January 1981, so I view myself as very late Gen X.

>>106337445
>muslims

Millenials and GenXers had to learn stuff in order to use tech, but zoomers and alphas don't as literally everything is automated and one click away. That's the real divider here.

Once this transitional period is over and the last traces of good tech are phased out for good, nobody will have any real advantage but young techies, who will most likely be infatuated with the inner workings of the new slop, but neglect to tackle the cool stuff that preceeded it, as it is expected.

A 12yo today just consooms brainrot and doesn't know, let alone care, about how it got to the screen. Now how many of these punks, even older punks like zoomers, would know how to format a MFM drive from the friggin debugger? and better yet, why would they even want to learn that in 2025?

>>106333553 (OP)
>What happens when the last millennial dies
It'll all be over. Back to monke

>>106333803
Those were few and far between. Stop being a generational pick-me
>>106335397
You mean the greatest generation, milked by the boomers.
>>106335575
And nothing of value will be lost

You're here forever
>>106334429

>>106354558
>Those were few and far between
Yes, just like other good programmers. They became legends. You want me to value millennial dockerized SaaS and soilatte slop more?

>>106344845
>As a millennial I always looked up to the gen x guys
Same, when I was a kid a classic gen x style nerd taught me computers

>>106333820
I don't entirely blame the zoomzooms for this though, Microjeet has been fucking up where windows installs things for years at this point.

>>106333592
Gen X computers were nothing like modern computers. For good and worse they were more simple, easier to repair and use machines.

>>106355009
My TRS-80 Model I had a whole manual dedicated to every aspect of it's design down to the specific parts you could buy off the shelf. No wonder there so many clones of stuff back then.

>>106339519
>It's not the fault of Gen Z or Alpha that nobody was around to teach them.
Nobody was around to teach us either. I was born in 91, and I remember that in elementary school, we had a "computer class" that were literally just playing flash games on the PCs all year long because there were no adult in school who knew enough about computers to teach anyone how to use them. My 1993 sister had the same experience. Everything I learned about computers was through trial and error.

>>106352167
All a distraction to quell us noticing what (who) the real problem is

>>106333693
Bruh

>>106341346
This post is totally off.

Zoomers are more tech literate than any previous generation. Just look at the job market for entry level software engineer and tech roles. Completely oversaturated. Each role instantly gets 10000 zoomer applicants the moment it's posted.

There's more tech literate zoomers right now today than the amount of software engineers and IT works in the entire decades of 1950s - 2010s combined.

>>106355420
meant to reply to OP

>>106333820
Man the number of people I work with that don't even own a home computer is fucking mind boggling. Somehow they get through life with just a cell phone and sometimes a tablet.

>>106333820
that's all phone's fault, that shit is deliberately made to force people away from reality of how stuff works and away from considerations for privacy and security

This thread is eye rape
Let it die

>>106354558
No I looked it up and I apparently meant the lost generation. Almost.

>>106333553 (OP)
THE ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE OF ROTATING A PDF DIES WITH US
>>106355420
I agree that millenial gen bait is retarded but I'm also kind of blackpilled by what I've seen from zoomers that actually work in tech.
I'm leagues beyond them and this is just my hobby. My guess is the smarter ones see the oversaturation and state of the industry and nope the fuck out. Everyone trying to get into tech just wants a comfy office job solving basic algebra problems.

Well, it is easy to fix a computer than a phone or a laptop. Also, Win Me don't had a button to fix itself.

>>106335575
Wouldn't obama be Gen X?

>>106339648
Thats how most people got a job in tech from 00s-10s.

Sorry you will never experience that and instead have to deal with the Jeet era.

>>106333592
I don't know a single Gen X irl who's proficient with computers, and most of my family are genxers

>>106339648
Most of the people I know still can't do that. A lot of bosses realize how easy it is and are mad they have to pay way above average in the US to a loser to get someone who can. So they outsource to people who say they can do it for 5x cheaper and have the credentials and still also can't do it. Now they have to go find another loser and pay them even more money to fix it.

>>106333637
pretty much this. the amount of gen-x salt over being forgotten/ignored is pretty funny though.

>>106335397
People born from 1883 to 1900 are called the "lost generation" or "generation of fire" because they fought in WW1.

>>106333637
1980s were the golden age for 8-bit computers and programming. You don't anything. All of my friends had a c64 or speccy and I typed in some programs from magazines (which were often misprinted, annoyingly).
I don't know man.

>>106333553 (OP)
as a zoomer myself
i can agree we are becoming slowly more and more tech illiterate

>>106333553 (OP)
millenials are why everything is coded in rust and politics has infected open source.

The first generation to get completely screwed financially when the post-war dollars ran out and they opened their mouths and swallowed the logs willingly.

the utterly pathetic generation.

>>106360748
Rust is literally the best programming language ever made, and the only reason why anyone speaks against it is because they've associated it with trannies in their mind.

>>106333553 (OP)
>use phones your entire life
>pay for goyslop subscription services your entire life
>learn nothing and can do nothing

Pathetic

>>106342487
>millennials hitting the internet was called the eternal September
Millenials were literally on diapers back then, retard. The oldest millenials were still under 12. It was nerdy boomers and early xoomers complaining about younger xoomers.

>>106341346
Your brown