• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    2 years ago

    Gen z doesn’t have to understand shit about tech. They’ve been given apps that work flawlessly since birth. The only people “forced” to understand tech were the late Xers/early millenials where you got some cool new program or hardware and it almost never worked out of the box so you’d have to troubleshoot the shit out of everything before you could even google for answers.

    After that plug and play started to work better and after that we got apps.

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      2 years ago

      Gen X had to learn learn how a computer works at a pretty basic level just to be able to use one. I took basic computer skills and programming for the TI 994a in elementary school. Then another hardware/software class around 5th grade. It was pretty easy to troubleshoot anything hardware or software until the mid 2000s.

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      2 years ago

      Somewhat agree but hopefully we do a good job passing on the torch to help the next generation