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The smart phone generation seem to have lower computer literacy than millennials largely due to smart phones hiding away a lot of the workings. In the UK age verification for adult sites came into force yesterday and like everywhere streaming services are getting very enshittified. This is going to lead kids to discovering tor, VPNs, pirating, how to make deep fakes (to fool ai based age verification), and other ways of getting what they want without restrictions.

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[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Not to mention that the computer literacy of the youngest generation will literally never be on par with the youngest millennials. I started using windows OS at like 4 years old on windows 95. My first computer classes in school started when I was 6. We had years and years of just typing classes on those dummy keyboards that werent even computers. WPM was an actual marketable skill at that time that they wanted to impart on kids.

Basically younger millennials have been cemented as the most technologically literate people alive. Most of the younger generation have the same level of computer literacy as boomers and are even worse than most Gen X. Far less capable than even elder millennials. We had actual QWERTY keyboards by the time we had cellphones, so we never were part of the T9 goofiness either

Nothing is going to catch up the young adults who grew up as IPad kids, because for those of us a bit older we have been exercising actual computer skills basically since we popped out

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I dont understand your qwerty coment I have never seen a device that could be called a computer that didn't have one. Unless you go as far back as the "mini computers" and even some of those had them

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe that was in relation to phones--they said they never had to use T9 mode on phones that had only numbers, and went straight to qwerty phones.

[–] Z3k3@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Thanks. I knew i was missing something

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