• htrayl@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Meh, maybe 10% of a single generation at most know how to use computers. Technically savvy millenials vastly overestimate how technically savvy other millenials are.

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      4 months ago

      Even if it’s just 10% of millennials, that still feels higher than both the older and younger generations. I’m in my 30s and a lot of people I went to school with can at least do basic things on the computer, since we had computer classes in primary (elementary) school and high school.

      • TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        fr, whenever i open the terminal on my school pc everyone immediately thinks im ‘hacking’

        sir that is just how i update my programs

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        4 months ago

        I think there was a golden 20 year era for learning basic computing. If you were a kid somewhere between 1985 and 2005 you had to figure out some slightly more technical things to use a computer. I’m late Gen X and so was exposed early on to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, but kids working with Windows 3, 95 and 98 would have developed similar skills.