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Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt@programming.dev
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[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 34 points 10 months ago (5 children)

it depends on the person. some zoomers are great with tech, hardware and software. others aren't. same goes for every generation. this reeks of the "haha let's shit on the younger generations" millennials have been mad about for years

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Sorry, but its different this time. A much smaller chunk of gen z is good with tech, and most of them struggle with basic concepts (like filesystems). Saying this as a gen z person.

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

I disagree. I work IT for a living. I fix a lot of devices for gen z but don't often have to educate them on software. the amount of people 30+ who don't realize I as a random IT worker can't magically reset their yahoo password is insane.

[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's always "different this time." Every generation.
Spoken as another gen Z person, I know exactly one other gen Z person who's bad with tech. The rest are great with it. It's entirely Dependant on who you surround yourself with.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

The older parts are typically better.

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

older gen z, can confirm! gamers and nerds are generally pretty good, but others not so much

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 10 months ago

And I've worked with some boomers who could use filezilla and other higher level than typical tech. There are some that are talented, but the average is noticeably lower.

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah I suspect what's happening is that plenty of boomers were actually just bad at tech but they got to use the excuse that they didn't grow up with it. Any gen z people that are bad at tech don't have that excuse so it seems like they're stupid, when in reality there have always been stupid people or people who just aren't interested.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 months ago

And I've worked with some boomers who could use filezilla and other higher level than typical tech. There are some that are talented, but the average is noticeably lower.