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   nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 21:39:30 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:
   I really do need to keep my hardware game in shape but to DARE imply you're better than me as a casual user at using the computer, and you also happen to be 33 years old.
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     menherahair (menherahair@eientei.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 21:41:54 JST menherahair

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 21:43:11 JST Phantasm

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     @nyanide The late American Gen X and early Millenials are probably the most knowledgeable when it comes to computers. Early Gen X and Baby boomers have no idea, and only early Gen Z know how to use a computer more or less.
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 21:45:18 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @phnt >The late American Gen X and early Millenials are probably the most knowledgeable when it comes to computers.
     
     Maybe. Some of them have written hardware emulators. But then again people in Gen Z have also written those with no outside help.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 21:53:39 JST Phantasm

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     @nyanide I'm not really talking about those that already know how to use a computer. I'm speaking broadly, generally.
     
     I think you have a better chance of finding someone from the former generations that is competent with computers then what you'll get even with early Zoomers. Mostly because those people were raised on computers that did exactly what you told them and made no attempt at hand holding.
     
     The "American" part is just my observation where even the "more competent" generations can barely use computers outside of US. In Europe the more competent generation is basically only early Zoomers and then it went to almost zero with the late Zoomies around 2010 and kept getting worse.
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     john paul grips (grips@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:14:02 JST john paul grips

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     @menherahair @nyanide my grandpa has a giant ass 2-in-1 like this! the computer is built into the back of the screen!
     
     the hardware sucks (for windows at least)
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:21:54 JST Phantasm

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     • Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)
     @why @nyanide How much of a problem this is? Probably a majority of 12 year olds here have no idea how to actually use a computer. And I literally mean no idea. Browser tabs are an alien concept to them, they can't even install apps from the Microsoft Store, etc. They can click on icons without thinking at all and that's about it. And phones aren't a replacement for computers, because guess what. They'll have to know how to use a computer to even have a chance of graduating, or doing basically any work besides being janitors.
     
     Also sorry kirby that I turned another non-serious thread into a serious one. Autism can't help it.
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     Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?) (why@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:21:55 JST Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)

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     @phnt @nyanide i wonder how much of a problem this actually is. those economically invested (microsoft, google, etc) already adjust to "make computers for absolute retards" and developers already default to a healthy platform-agnostic unixish. computers should be for people who want to use computers
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:25:43 JST Phantasm

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     @Pawlicker @nyanide @why
     >USB Killer
     >this is ackshually a device for testing purposes only
     >$15 USD
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     Pawlicker (pawlicker@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:25:44 JST Pawlicker

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     • Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)
     @why @phnt @nyanide the new way of rebelling against your school isn't to run cs or halo on the school pc
     It's to shove "led" into the USB ports of your school Chromebook and burn the place down before the tiktok jannies blacklist the trend
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     nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face: (nyanide@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:26:35 JST nyanide :nyancat_rainbow::nyancat_body::nyancat_face:

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     @Pawlicker @why @phnt Hell yeah, I'm all for that. Great entertainment.
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     john paul grips (grips@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:28:33 JST john paul grips

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     • Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)
     @phnt @nyanide @why our computer classes were full of making presentations and text documents and I used to hate it because I thought everybody already knows how to do that. it's painful finding out that's false
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:31:44 JST Phantasm

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     @grips @nyanide @why My moment of realization was when I had to work with graduates and it was faster to physically go to them, fix their "computer issue" and then go back to my work, than it was to help with through chat. Completely clueless to anything else than Chrome and VSCode. Graduates from EE actually new more about computers than the developers writing software for them.
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     FWC (fwc@0.5dollah.click)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:33:12 JST FWC

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     @Pawlicker @phnt @nyanide @why I heard about this, but what is "led"? What are they actually putting in there?

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     Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!) (mrsaturday@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:39:43 JST Encyclopædia Autistica (Order Now!)

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     @nyanide @phnt Gen Z's kind of like their parents where they either think of a computer like an unwieldy smartphone, or they're very capable. I can respect it
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     menherahair (menherahair@eientei.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:39:53 JST menherahair

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     • Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)
     @phnt @nyanide @why my niece got her first pc the other day and asked where's the play store. I pointed to the microsoft store on the task bar and she figured it out
     then the nephew installed and modded minecraft for her. I showed him how to look up the ip in powershell and how lan works and now they're gaming
     they're 9 and 11 and nobody's schooling them. I thought it'd be really bad because I keep reading shit like this but they're gonna be fine
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:42:44 JST Phantasm

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     @menherahair @nyanide @why Does your brother/sister have a computer background. In my experience can use phones without issues since a lot of them were using them since they were 3 basically, but computers are beyond their comprehension.
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     menherahair (menherahair@eientei.org)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 22:47:42 JST menherahair

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     • Kimochi Whyui (Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?)
     @phnt @nyanide @why just office shit for work. I installed bloons td6 on her laptop once and this is what happened
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     Vokainen (vokainen099@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-May-2025 23:04:47 JST Vokainen

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     @phnt @nyanide In my experience you can find early-to-mid millenials either working on sourceports of open sourced 90s games or emulators of 80s-to-90s consoles, as well as all kinds of official IT employing scheme.
     
     Early Gen Zs go much more around, some are reverse-engineering games from the mid 90s onward (Think the recent Tomb Raider Remastered, that required reversed engineering, although its lead director is probably a late millennial), others are doing odd things here and there, many are into the modding scene modding games they grew up with.
     
     Thing is, only early Zs will know how to use a computer, and only if they were exposed when they were literal kindergarten/primary school kids, since smartphones came around just as they were hitting middle school, but fliphones were already quite popular and many of them I remember having some.
     Later ones probably only found computers in their schools' computers lab, or at home, but they likely were already wielding smartphones or tablets.
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