My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We’re in our early 40s.

  • Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I don’t really like bashing or putting the new generations in negative light… But in this case it is true. Late gen x, Millennials, and early gen z grew up with computers and tech that was more troublesome and where forced to learn how to naturally troubleshoot. On top of that we got eased into the more advanced and user friendly stuff.

    Later generations where born with the easier user friendly stuff and don’t have to troubleshoot nearly as much.

    Of course this is also a generalization and does not reflect on an individual bases

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      11 months ago

      Yea, I don’t like bashing my niblings generation either, but it’s not just the two of them I’ve had to provide tech support to; my cousins kids as well. They all act like troubleshooting is an alien concept and panic when the WiFi stops working on their tablets.

      Fortunately my nephew’s high school has a computer class he’s required to take. I hope he learns something useful.