He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him... he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company's entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.

... For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.

But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We often forget that half the boomers were the hippies, pioneers of the Internet, and activist that got the civil rights act passed.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We forget that it was a minority of them. The majority is like every other generation: kept disinterested and selfish.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ours included. I get the idea millennials are supposed to be best with computers but I'll be honest that shit ain't true. Plenty of people I know are complete bozos

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

Every generation

[–] MartianRecon@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Half the boomers were absolutely not hippies.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hot take but the hippies fucking sucked and I absolutely despise the entire movement. They had no political message, no demands, no way of achieving their goals, and were an entire movement based on vibes alone. The 70s was a time of great economic upheaval and there was a real chance that things could change, that we could have became a more progressive society, even revolution was possible, but then the hippies came and channeled the revolutionary energy of an entire generation into doing fuck all. Quite frankly I feel the same about the no kings protest today, an entire movement based on vibes with no plans of accomplishing anything.

[–] xtools@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

https://youtu.be/F2ZwJiK0fJ0

[–] Amberskin 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, we (boomers) actually invented the PC…

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A few of you. The rest can barely operate a smartphone let alone do online banking, much less understand a phishing scam.

The problem though isn't that people in general lack the understanding or capability to operate computers, it's that we live in a society where continuous learning is not encouraged nor funded. Education is seen a means to an end, and learning isn't seen as a way of life.

If the government either provided or paid for lifelong learning, things would be very very different. For example when new tech comes out affecting everybody, it should be encouraged to take a week or two off work, at full pay or paid for by the government, to stay current. But right now, only the wealthy and lucky few can even afford that.

[–] Amberskin 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of ‘us’ were street smart in our glory days and would not have fallen to the current day scams then. But even without dementia involved, our cognitive abilities degrade and our ability to adapt to changes slows down.

Unfortunately, your generation will get there too.

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

More of your generation fell for the scam that is religion.

[–] deft@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 days ago

And our generation gets rugpulled every other week

[–] Amberskin 1 points 1 week ago

Well, fortunately I dodged that bullet. Atheist since 13 years old.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My generation has 17 inch long dicks.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Especially the women! 😋

[–] Maerman@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean, for gen alpha, that's an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 102 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Error messages when I was growing up:

Network Error: TCP protocol not installed.

Error messages now:

Something went wrong. :(

[–] Maerman@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck's sake.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 21 points 1 week ago

It infuriates me because it’s disrespectful. The message insinuates that I wouldn’t be able to figure it out.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago

Needed to add my phone number for 2FA on a website. Something went wrong :( checked network tab and the error being returned from the API was too short phone number, they'd made an assumption based on the country they were from.

I still had to message their support to let them know, but... They could've made it easier to find out the reason at least.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I'll just check the logs then...

The logs:

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We have 209 monkeys working on it

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

Hahaha! Were so fucking quirky! How did you get here? Uh-oh, that wasn't supposed to happen! ThIs iS nOt ThE PaGe YoU'rE lOoKiNg fOr! Hahaha! Like in The Star Wars, which is a nerd movie! HAHAHAHA! Oh noes too mani kittens 😺😸😹😺😸😹😺😸😹!

[–] sours@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Never forget that they took away our moving progress bars w/ descriptions of the task being performed at each stage and gave us shitty spinning circles.

We used to progress, now we get fucked around.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A spinning circle requires just two threads, one to do the work and one to spin the circle. And they don't have to talk to each other.

A progress bar is the same thing, but now the work thread has to periodically communicate the progress to the bar thread, and inter-thread synchronization has to be setup. And how do you know how much progress a single file transfer represents? Or how many progress points is a registry edit versus a file transfer? It's hard to figure out in advance, which is why so many progress bars are shitty estimates of progress.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

I mean we used to just put them on the same thread and block the window message handling loop, causing Windows to freak out. And we liked it.

[+] Retail4068@lemmy.world -14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You mean being made easier for normies?

Year of the Linux desktop and day now.

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ballsy of you to assume that it got "easier for normies", the answer probably lies in asking "easier for what?". Computers have been redefined as consumption devices in a scheme to extract maximal profit out of their captive users. So it's certainly "easy" for a growing number of users baited into dark patterns to hand over their credit card details and get addicted to antisocial networks and whatnot. But using modern devices as traditional computers, with intent, as a productive tool? It got much harder, except maybe for the Linux users, normies and "geeks" alike.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

👌👍 Linux is easy to use out of the box, bug free, and works on common hardware that people use without issue.

[–] Maerman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The word 'normie' is just insulting. It implies a hierarchy of knowledge that I just don't accept.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

👌 however you want to deal with the fact that your in a massive minority.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

I can't dance as well as a ballerina, but they're in the minority and so should be forced to plod like the rest of us.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not for my daughter, I'm starting her early on Arch (she's 4 but she will learn to love the terminal lol)

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"Now sweetie, find the etc directory or no ice cream."

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean like that's difficult?

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

We all start somewhere!

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Idk personally if I was teaching a child how to use Linux I would focus on more practical skills like updating pkgs

[–] flameleaf@programming.dev 13 points 1 week ago

You've got a hacker in training there

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A Gen X old person once said to me "Oh you're not familiar with computers, that's okay" because I was typing awkwardly on a shitty old work keyboard in a new job

My nerdy millennial ass has literally never been more offended

[–] HuePony@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Guess who to blame

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Epstein?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

Time?

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

My Gen Alpha kid refuses to learn when I offer to teach him. I am not going to force him to become technologically literate. (I'm Gen X and write software professionally). Maybe it's my fault because my teaching style is incompatible with his learning style? He won't accept my offers to send him to classes either.

[–] dosuser123456@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

so real

im sick of being the classroom it guy just because i know how to use the computer beyond clicking stuff onthe desktop