• endeavor@sopuli.xyz
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    11 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.

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      4 hours ago

      I legit have an acquaintance 15 years my junior regularly begging me for the the best torrent sites. And they’re pretty savvy for their generation

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      7 hours 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

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        4 hours ago

        I hope anyone who uses Google without an adblocker learns that very quick too.

        Bait ads is the biggest attack vector to bring users to install malware.

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          3 hours ago

          They don’t learn, despite phone ads using the X button (the one supposed to close the ad) to open the fucking play store page