To my fellow Gen X’ers…
Shhh!
Let someone else deal with the inept on the other end of the phone. Be happy we’re being ignored again.
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Millenial here:
This is good advice, sage even.
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EDIT:
I didn't forget the couple of extremely cool and also very knowledgable Gen X mentors/bosses I had, hahah!
I've spent the last decade training Millennials just for that task.
I'll be over here screwing with the K8S cluster if you need me.
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And again, generation X completely forgotten about.
We fix our own damn computers before the Millenials get out of bed.
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I know enough Millennials who don't know shit. "My email address is www...."
Same. My older brother got scammed by the "hello this is paypal. Your account got hacked." Eventhough i told him to hang up and that it is a scam
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There are some parts of Gen Z that can actually tear stuff apart and actually fix systems, but those are the nerds (which also includes me) that care enough to actually learn stuff. The majority is quite tech illiterate
Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.
Let's be fair, we millennial know how to fix stuff because stuff still can be fixed. We can glance back one generation away and learn about how stuff work back then, and also learn how to fix those stuff. Nowadays stuff aren't meant to be fixed, (late) gen z doesn't have thing to start tearing apart and learn about the inner working of stuff, because it's all glued/snapped together, with the culture being once broke just toss.
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Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!
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lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.
I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.
My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.
tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.
My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.
My grandpa was a robotics engineer and thus knew how to use a PC quite well but watching him operate Windows 10 basically without utilizing any tools that came after DOS was bizarre.
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They aren't saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they'd be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.
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Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.
Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.
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Not all of Gen Z are tech illiterate. Some of us used computers before iPads and smartphones. I used Windows XP and 7 long before I ever got a smartphone.
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Well I don't know... I worked with boomers who first built out the internet in my country. Now they mostly retired, but the Gen-Xers who remain are also incredible.
My dad who's also a boomer and an anesthesiologist got admin rights at the hospital he worked at because he helped everyone around with their computer troubles and the tech support trusted him and were happy he reduced their ticket load.
Maybe you guys just know the wrong people.
Gen X here. If I cared what any of those age groups thought I would feel slighted.
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As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.
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I'm actually, genuinely shocked by the ageism in such debates every single time. There's no such thing as age-based incompetence, TBH. There are sound people for every field available everywhere. Why do we have to assume this? Every generation has at least a few people who are competent in their field, even in computing. It's more important that the literate of us unite to end illiteracy and stop injustice being done in the name of technology. This, honestly, is just making fun of each other, for apparently no sound reason. And I'm talking about the comments, not the meme. I might, or not, get some sour disagreements, or straight-up very bitter replies for arguing even this, ...and again, I ask: Do we reeaaally have to do this?
Technology too has a supposed duty of bringing people together...!
For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.
Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.
That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.
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Just ask an AI to fix it.
YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS AN RTX 5090 SUPER RUNNING THE SKYNET CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE TO WORK PROPERLY.
Easy
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Where did Gen X go?
I am happy to pretend not to know anything so as not have to fix everyone's computer.
Even to the point that when someone is expected to fact check at a dinner table - I look at the young'ns as if I am hopeless so that they can do the lookup.
But I'm Generation Z and I have to update my mom's Linux Mint laptop because she can't pay attention when I show her.
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The difference between Gen X and Millennials is that at around age 35 (circa 2009) I started telling people, who were almost always friends of friends who wouldn't actually hang out with me normally, that I charge $100 an hour. Millennials still do it for free...
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My parents are Gen X, me and my older brother are Gen Z.
Parents keep asking, nay, DEMANDING, for us to fix their shit. Then i proceeded to have a fight with my brother about who's responsibility is it to fix it.
Parent's don't know how to use a tax filing website 🤦♂️ (Tbf, they don't know how to fill out paper forms either).
The first time we've ever touched a real computer with internet access was around 2010, before that, we were in mainland China and we had no internet (either too expensive, or unavailable as a service in the areas we lived in, not sure which, or my parents are just being cheap)
Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.
The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.
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Am i a rare GenZ or do i just hang around with unicorns because we are all active in IT. Me programming nog hardware but still
You are rare and these stereotypes are mostly false. Most people in every generation can’t fix a computer. Maybe the only slight echo of truth is that during the millennial childhood and youth, at least in terms of raw numbers, home computers peaked as the main “tech” children were exposed to, so there might be a little more people who are not professionals, but have some extra comfort with them. Still, that’s a stretch.
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I wish!
Not in my household.
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