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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Messing around with your old WinXP/95 computer and then fixing that mess before your parents come home and scold you does wonders to one's troubleshooting skills. People of this generation never got to hear that scary XP error sound, and it shows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Windows XP's error sound wasn't scary. Windows 95 and 98's were. That natural alarming chime, combined with the angry faces when our parents find out the non-functioning operating system...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Turns out the one I was thinking of was the critical stop sound and the error sound was less threatening. Learnt something new...

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