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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Me, a self-taught 25y+ IT wiz with hardware, software, networking, and programming

My parents, doom-scrolling fox news and asking me how to send an email

If I died they would slowly starve, absolutely helpless for anything beyond basic human function. "how do I open a pdf", "why do I have 4 passwords for 1 website", "I went to [domain 2] and it is different from [domain 1] and no it's not because I clicked the first entry on Google" [spoiler alert, they blindly clicked the first entry on Google], "plex isn't working, what do you mean check the wifi, I thought we had unlimited wifi", "how do I check the home phone voicemail", "how do I redeem cash back on my credit card", "how do I order pizza from dominos", "I made an account" [for a site I have a family account setup for already], "I paid for a year of a streaming service without testing the free trial and I can't stream anything", "why can't we play [streaming service we don't pay for]", "why does this say 'ad blocked' when I try to click on this shady email", "the home security system went off after I disabled the back door, went outside, then closed the door, then came back in - I don't understand" [the system armed when they shut the door behind them, then came back in and boom], "why does this say I'm out of cloud space" [14 gigabytes of pointless emails]... And that's just from recent memory! And this is a constant stream of basic things. I can't even get them to reliably reboot devices before they are out of ideas. Literally helpless.

All boomers did was successfully take everything for themselves, and didn't learn a damn bit in the process.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your experience is not universal. My mother is a boomer and had to teach her school district's IT guy how to work with Apple products. Usually she only calls me for IT sanity checks before she tries to fix something.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I never said it was universal - I gave a contrast to their own example.