Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and don’t even understand the concept of folders and files.
I’d probably be the same if it wasn’t for video games. Wanting to build my own PC was what educated me the most about computers and how they work and learning basic desktop usage. Especially getting into Skyrim and Minecraft mods. There whether someone wants to or not they will have to know basic folder structure and where things are saved and located.
But, without a self driven reason to dive further beyond mobile devices it doesn’t seem like schools are teaching people computer basics anymore. So not something learned by everyone by just every day life.
There’s always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.
This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.
Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.
So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device aren’t doing the same until forced to.
The youngest millenials are almost 30, dude’s gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials haven’t been the in thing for like 10 years now.
sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now
Nearly positive that the youngest are still minors, but most of them are adults for sure.
These delineations are quite silly especially when used in a derogatory way. But if one plays that game, there are still “zoomers” who are minors.
Those are probably only on mobile so their knowledge of navigating a PC is probably worse than a boomer and don’t even understand the concept of folders and files.
Yep. I feel like a failure of a father. I was talking to my 12 year old about some website and she was all “what app is that?”
It’s not an app, it’s a website.
But there’s no website app.
You use a web browser? Like Firefox?
What’s a a web bowser? Is Firefox a new furry?
I’d probably be the same if it wasn’t for video games. Wanting to build my own PC was what educated me the most about computers and how they work and learning basic desktop usage. Especially getting into Skyrim and Minecraft mods. There whether someone wants to or not they will have to know basic folder structure and where things are saved and located.
But, without a self driven reason to dive further beyond mobile devices it doesn’t seem like schools are teaching people computer basics anymore. So not something learned by everyone by just every day life.
I personally know several in that age group (minor zoomers) who game on Windows and Linux.
There’s always going to be exceptions among those with a more natural tech based interest, but it used to be that everyone was exposed to using a desktop and not something that someone had to individually go out of their way to learn.
This article all day way from back in 2021 showed professors having to rethink how to teach the basics, since now skills that were expected to be known were starting to not be common knowledge.
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
So yeah people who are more interested in PC gaming, streaming, and even pirating are more likely to find resources to be self taught. But, the regular people who are increasingly growing up only using phones as their computing device aren’t doing the same until forced to.
I have a gen x cousin that still rants about millennials, quickly becoming the new Facebook uncle
The youngest millenials are almost 30, dude’s gotta get a new hobby or something, rants about Millenials haven’t been the in thing for like 10 years now.
Relevant XKCD
https://xkcd.com/973/
*They’re
nope, their kids. the MTV kid’s kids
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