• hydroxycotton@lemmy.world
    38·
    11 hours ago

    I’ve trained a lot of 18-22 y/os in the last 10 years and they are fine. Let’s not become the boomers please…

    • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      I am a 30 yr old boomer in uni with 18 year olds and they are mostly fine. We are learning programming so the base qualification is to not dumb with computers. BUT My teacher friends are supporting OPs screencap where children do not understand computers at all. Theres plenty of tales of students being asked to log into a 15 minute online test and entire lesson is spent teaching them how to log in one by one. The issue is they click the biggest and flashiest button and quit once they discover it does not lead them where they want to go.

      There is plenty more evidence that the next generation is unable to handle anything more complex than most popular apps on phone. Is it really surprising when everything has been designed to just work and be streamlined so you don’t have to troubleshoot anymore.

      • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        The issue is they click the biggest and flashiest button and quit once they discover it does not lead them where they want to go.

        Anyone that ever pirated anything learns real quick that those are the buttons you avoid like the plague

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      9 hours ago

      Yeah, being dumb is hardware-agnostic. As some guy put it, “being stupid isn’t a big deal anymore; some of my best friends are stupid”.
      It just stunlocks me a little bit as younger people have been around tech their whole life, unlike boomers, who were born before computers.

      • ilovepiracy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        17·
        9 hours ago

        “been around tech their whole life” more like they have a locked down phone, locked down game console and MAYBE a desktop computer. It’s too rounded out and consumer friendly now, you never have to peek under the hood.

      • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Boomers have been seeing changes in communications, culture, and technology as revolutionary as anything in the last 20 years, for their entire lives. Things didn’t start getting wild just recently. It has been a romp for the last 200 years.