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   Caroline Kinlund (caroline@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:20:58 JST Caroline Kinlund

   • Sabrina✨

   @ryanhoulihan I had to master the warp and liquify tools to feminize my pfp because FaceApp wouldn’t exist for another 15 years, you whippersnappers

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     Stinkie McPhee (stinkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:26:37 JST Stinkie McPhee

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan my 15 year old has no idea how computers work, because everyone around them for their entire life assumed that they just... Knew how to use one.

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     AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈 (andthisismrspeacock@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:29:57 JST AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈

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     • Sabrina✨
     • cynthia rose is a cat lady omg

     @cynthiarose @ryanhoulihan Turns out struggling with DOS and trying to get Windows 3.1 to speak TCP/IP gave us important life skills that those who grew up with "it all just works" don't have 😆

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     AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈 (andthisismrspeacock@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:29:57 JST AndThisIsMrsPeacock 🏳‍🌈

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     • Sabrina✨
     • cynthia rose is a cat lady omg

     @cynthiarose @ryanhoulihan True story,

     ME: (to Gen Z coworker 1) ...and that's how recursive DNS queries work.

     GEN Z 2: Hey what are you guys doing?

     GEN Z 1: (shaken) He was just showing me the terrifyingly fragile house of cards the entire internet depends on.

     ME: ...

     ME: Well, I don't know if I would say *terrifyingly* fragile, exactly,

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     cynthia rose is a cat lady omg (cynthiarose@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:29:58 JST cynthia rose is a cat lady omg

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan hahaha you would’ve LOVED programming VCRs in the 80s and 90s. Every household had exactly one person who could do it, the rest were helpless 😂

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     Isho'ye (wuffish@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:52:14 JST Isho'ye

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan I was the techy GenX kid who people begged to make their VCRs stop blinking 12:00. I simply cannot understand how people in my age bracket are so tech-illiterate. Like, we were moulded in the early fires of the Internet. I buy routers based on if I can install something like DD-WRT on them. I burned a Debian DVD like a month ago to install it on a PC that can't boot from USB. Meanwhile, my 70+ mum bought a podcaster mic from Amazon, and installed it herself.

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     BenRiceM (benricem@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 16:03:29 JST BenRiceM

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan the kids are not alright

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     Oli T (quaderror@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 16:25:23 JST Oli T

     • Sabrina✨

     @ryanhoulihan I got this with Gen Z nieces. Bought them laptops for school, checked in a while later to watch one turns theirs on and it ran chkdsk immediately.

     "That's not good."
     "Oh, it always does that."
     "...It shouldn't."

     Turns out being brought up terminally online with mobile phones she thought turning off a PC was also just "Hold the power button until it dies".