• Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.com
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    20 days ago

    Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works. I work in IT support and it can honestly be a tossup sometimes if the person who doesnt know how to clear their cache is a boomer or not.

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      20 days ago

      if a 3 year old can use a smart phone it’s not because that child is a genius it’s because the phones designer was.

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      Oh no, does this mean Gen X are going to be the wisened graybeards that holds arcane knowledge and seemly executes feats of magic when related to technology?

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        X and the millennials both had to deal with computers that were computers, it’s the people that grew up in the smart phone/tablet era that have no idea what to do in front of an actual computer…

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      20 days ago

      Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works.

      Millennials don’t, either. A tiny fraction of a fraction had technical literacy 20 years ago and now they think they’re top shit because they can write simple CMD commands.

      All this jerking one another off is crazy. I work in the industry and I’m surrounded by people my own age who don’t know what Active Directory is much less Linux.

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        19 days ago

        People don’t need to know how to write a program from scratch to have useful tech knowledge. Knowing basic keyboard shortcuts puts a person above the vast majority of other people in terms of tech literacy.

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      It’s honestly a toss up whether sysadmins know what the fuck they’re doing. I’m working on a deal now that’s hampered by the fact that a Linux sysadmin for a huge finserv company doesn’t know how to administer a Linux system.

      This is why the humanities are important: So you learn how to think about a problem and not just rely on someone writing down every goddamn keystroke for you.

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          19 days ago

          People who think like you make my job a lot harder.

          How are you supposed to understand instructions when you read at a third grade level?

          How are you supposed to do research to understand an error message if you’ve never looked anything up before?