>Used to think this was just a meme
>My zoomer cousin asked me how to pirate videogames and genuinely didn't understand how to unzip an archive or set up file folders
Why is Gen Z so technologically incompetent?
>Used to think this was just a meme
>Used to think this was just a meme
>My zoomer cousin asked me how to pirate videogames and genuinely didn't understand how to unzip an archive or set up file folders
Why is Gen Z so technologically incompetent?
Why are you so incompetent at making threads that are about video games
what caused this
Smart phones
but smartphones do have folders
Technically yes, but the zoomer doesn't use them. He just presses download on the app store and has no idea how shit works past that.
grim, if they don't use desktop computers you'd at least expect them to know the one device they use decently well
I guarantee you that they don't know that
but they don't navigate thru folder to open files, they just open the app icon and let the app find, sort and show the files for them, that's why they think the photos are in the gallery, and the music is in the music app
lmao not iphones. they obfuscate that shit so much that you dont even know where your photos get saved
there is literally no way to access, rename, copy, etc. phone files unless you install a third party """app"""" that allows you to do that
Apple user detected, everyone laugh at him
>6773 files in downloads
I don't think this is the win you thought it was.
That phones have file systems if you use a big boy phone? Yeah I think it is
Too bad you don't use it, zoomie
I'm 35 kek. You're acting real smug for an iKiddie
>all of those discord notifications
>he uses iOS
my Samsung has all of that shit built in, thanks for giving me even more of a reason to never buy an iPhone
Zoomers are so dumb that they have to subscribe to services that unsubscribe them from all the shit they forgot they subscribed too.
Race-mixing, Black person culture and the muttification of a generation
Idiot profing everything ensured that everyone is an idiot. No one learns how to do anything because everything is done for them.
Zoomers don't use desktops because everything they need is on a phone or tablet
People don't even make folders anymore or move stuff to a proper location. Literally all their stuff is sitting in the Downloads folder with hundreds of GB of shit
What's wrong with having all your stuff in one convenient location?
Kek, I do this on my work computer, I only organize shit when work is slow, so every 6 or so months.
I do this since I delete games after finishing them
I download too much porn for this. I'd brick my OS drive monthly if I didn't know how to reroute downloads to targeted folders in my other drives.
>how to reroute
you mean choosing a fricking filepath?
how do I change the tube direction to flow the files elsewhere??
>anymore
h-haha, can you imagine someone who's chronically terrible at file organization?
Everything is designed to be idiot proof so most zoomers never had to deal with actively maintaining their own system
>captcha G0Y2
They started making computers for Black folk
finally
https://sexoffenders.oregon.gov/Map/FullOffenderProfile?offenderId=6281
fruity ass homie
Phones don't have file systems, that's it. People will deny this basic reality because they'd rather embrace racism.
But they do, zoomers are just too moronic to realize or understand
they do. they just hide them for "friendliness"
every android phone literally comes with a file browser from the get go only iphones dont.
android = ick
also most android hide the file system
Android is superior in literally every conceivable way and the only country on earth that fails to understand this is Black personland because they have been brainwashed
Putting it in settings is moronic but I wouldn't call it hidden.
>understanding file systems is work
>zoombies doomscroll all day and play zoomblox
>don't wanna work
It's simply they're lazy, or the ones who are aware know they'll be simply replaced by AI. These is no future for them.
US stumbling into superpower status and staying there through sheer volume
it's literally phones and tablets, devices that don't have a readily accessible file system. and it doesn't end there. i teach children and whenever they are supposed to use desktops or laptops to do research, they revert to helpless babies. they don't know what a cursor is, what the mouse does or how to access an internet browser. everything is like black magic to them. it's genuinely baffling how there's only one, MAYBE two generations, who have grown up to be competent with actual computers in day to day use. ironically, digital natives are less knowledgeable about technology most of the time than the boomers who used to warn you about getting to know strangers on the internet who now get scammed by hot singles in your area popups.
People made the UI of electronics to easy to use.
Shame they didn't make using a dictionary too easy.
Proliferation of mobileshit. Also, schools started giving out "laptops" to students, but they were actually Chrome Books, which is basically a terminal to access Google's online services. They are something less than a netbook, and the schools bought them because they are ridiculously cheap. Now most students have little or no experience using an actual PC.
Kalergi plan, basically this ->
Oversocialization.
>tfw had to teach my zoomer interns that you can google stuff
I stopped telling people to google shit, it's like giving clothes to a rock. Frick them. Absolute morons that have infinite knowledge at the tip of their fingers but can't stop asking HOW DO I DO THAT??? HOW DID YOU DO THAT??? SHOULD I DO THAT??? HOW SHOULD I DO THAT???
Bunch of rocks.
I can guarantee my great grandfather would feel the same way about me not being able to ride a horse. That said, I don't fricking have to know how to do that right now, whereas basic research is absolutely required to exist in the modern world
>Tfw had to teach boomers at work who've been there for 20 years how a search bar works
Seemed like they're both more similar than we thought
boomers thought they didn't have to teach their kids anything because they were "digital natives" and now they're mad that they don't know stuff that was never taught to them
see
zoomtards have no excuse
Zoomers are all morons
Apple
chromebooks in schools and smartphones
corporations want you stupid so they can exploit you. It's been like this since the middle ages.
(Actual) boomers and Gen Xers grew up using DOS, so C: and CD (chdir) commands were all we had until Windows and Macintoshes came out.
Meanwhile, zoomers were born into an environment where directory navigation was also so abstracted, that most never had an opportunity to comprehend what is actually going on besides clicking an icon.
Locked down spoonfed systems such as the iphone and mac
Simplification makes turbo morons
Also most zoomers don't know how to use picrel
Stick shift is 100x easier than boomers meme it to be and acting smug because someone doesn't knoe how to use it is like being smug the kids don't know how to churn butter
most American zoomers*
Okay but can you ride a horse? Do you know how to start a car with a crankshaft? That's the REAL shit right there.
Except stick shift is pointless 99% of the time. Most people only need to go from point A to point B and having to constantly manually shift is just pointless busy work and I say that as someone the learned driving on a stick shift.
Best anti theft mechanism in the US. They'll make it about 5 feet before stalling.
Schools failed them
Tech companies have actively made people more moronic since 2016 on the desperate hope that they can make sure orange man bad never happens again
Nobody learns how to use computers these days.
Iphone
Back in the '00s there was a big sudden technology boom. Subsequently there was an good intentioned push to make everything simplified for the older generations, like how to set up an email account, setting up a profile, how to connect to a network, how to import music to itunes then to your ipod, etc. The phrase that encapsulated all this was 'make so easy your mother could do it'. So people tried to streamline the process, make it as simplified as possible, eliminate the number of steps, and not use a whole bunch of technical jargon. Again, this was well meaning and had good intentions behind it, we weren't nearly as jaded then as we are now. However the unforeseen consequence is that we took those simplified processes aimed at the older generation and then aimed it at the youngest generation, Gen Z. Gen Z and now Gen Alpha have now grown up with simplified processes, apps that do all the background work, and don't understand or have computer literacy skills.
apple
Less white people.
Phones don't let you browse the files easily. They just dump everything into the downloads or camera folders and let apps use those and take/drop what they need, for ease of use. Then at some point you need to put some order and you have no idea how, because corporations only want you to push the Like, Buy and Share buttons.
No one teaching kids how to use a PC at schools now that everyone has smartphones
As someone with a Zoomer niece I can tell you exactly why. My niece told me she never had a computer class like we all did growing up. She never had a class where they taught the kids about computers and how to use them or how to use a word processor, spreadsheet or presentation software. She also had no idea how to write emails and use an email SOFTWARE.
>She never had a class where they taught the kids about computers and how to use them or how to use a word processor, spreadsheet or presentation software.
People keep talking about these but I'm over 30 and the most we got taught was how to type and how to look shit up.
anybody in their 30s, except maybe late 30s was expected to use word or powerpoint and you are lying if you are saying otherwise
>expected to use word or powerpoint
We didn't have a class where they went in-depth about how to use them. At most the English teacher would tell you how to save shit and how to change fonts and spacing.
No not a class, but you were either going to a poor school or are lying if you weren't supposed to use it.
Excel is the only one I can see as not coming across
>you weren't supposed to use it.
We did use them, I just told you that. We didn't get an entire run down on how they work though, just the basics to be able to use the programs for the powerpoint or paper report we would then have to print out.
here,
I never really had to learn Word. I'm gonna try to now for hobby purposes (not really but that's to sum it up).
That sort of teaching was very region specific. Only the schools with very forward thinking GOOD teachers pushed for teaching computers to millennial children. They knew what was up and were some of the brightest minds of their time that could tell exactly what was going to happen. I was taught typing and basic file structures in elementary school during the 90s. That sort of thing required a lot of funding at the time because hardly anyone even had home PCs and Internet yet and required a lot of convincing at the local level to provide children with said training. Generally, it was likely the most well off areas that had them.
I'm 37 but I never understood what the frick an email software is even for, I always used my browser
Only thing I can think of is it makes it easier to management multiple inboxes
I never used them until recently too. It makes managing mailboxes easier so that's nice
>she never had a computer class like we all did growing up.
I also didn't have computer class growing up. Must be a zillenial thing.
t. soon-to-be 36
phonehomosexualry
ban phones from Gankerle and quality goes up at least 90%
Millennials grew up in an era where you NEEDED to understand how a computer worked to use it properly. Now they're so streamlined that you don't. It's the same thing with cars. Boomers knew how to fix their own cars, but most millennials are completely helpless with them.
Cars today aren't made like cars of yesterday. Not an apt comparison.
And people still need to understand how to use certain features of computers today.
car manufacturers have been actively fighting right to repair since if owners can't repair their own cars and ideally independent repair shops can't either without their licensed diagnostics software, then you have to give them more money to fix your shit.
yeah a lot of cars today require special proprietary equipment to work on
Companies like Apple and Microsoft slowly but steadily restricting control and dumbing things down for its users. The parents, community, and school system for failing to teach them these skills. Society as a collective for encouraging this behavior (both mocking people of not knowing and also not teaching them).
>Why are you so incompetent at making threads that are about video games
nah, typical zoomer sentence structure consists of
>bro ______
or
>bro is/is NOT ______
>frogposter
have a nice day
someone taught you when you were a bumbling moron, now its your turn.
I remember coming to Ganker to ask how ISO files worked because I wanted to play RA2:YR a decade and a half ago.
People were nice and helpful and taught me in 2-3 posts. Zero shitposting.
millenials are bitter
I remember calling you a homosexual and telling you that even a moron should be able to figure out how to use a winrar archive, then somebody gave you a link to alcohol 120%, glad you figured it out tbqh, my mentorship skills worked as intended
>someone taught you when you were a bumbling moron
nobody taught me though. my parents were boomers and there was no internet when i was a kid, i just clicked on shit until i figured it out.
and a computer is all you had to use
kids today interact with smartphones and tablets, maybe a chromebook
its not the kids faults that technology changed
I was able to figure out smartphones and tablets despite only using computers before.
and I'm sure kids could do the same today with time, this shit is just boring 'Back in my day' generation b***hing. low intelligence shit to worry about
the interfaces and way you interact with it are completely different you moron
Phones and tablets are literally identical with size being the only difference. A chromebook is just a shitty laptop with less freedom. And these interfaces are not in any way greatly different from a desktop pc. It's just touch UI and no peripherals, everything else is basically the same. The real issue here is what
says, these other devices are made to be moron-proof, so any of the even remotely technical aspects of the device are hidden away where most users will never see them, while on a desktop pc you can access them relatively easily. The technology is literally the same, and it should not be even remotely difficult for someone who can use a smartphone to learn what a filesystem is. But they have been infantilized by corporations who were afraid of someone being too dumb to understand something.
It's basically the equivalent of when Mario added that white tanuki suit to the games that made you permanently invincible and allowed you to fly, only they literally force it to be active right from the start and you can't turn it off ever. Naturally this creates infants who cannot play Mario.
If those same people had to interact with a normal PC they would pick it up perfectly fine, no it may not immediately click within minutes but people generally aren't that moronic
Again this is all just low IQ b***hing about generational shit, its a waste of time and no different than boomers saying shit like "This new generation is too stupid to even operate a rotary dial!!!"
>"This new generation is too stupid to even operate a rotary dial!!!"
Only a moron couldn't use one, it's not a complicated thing. Bad example.
Vast majority of millennials here like do not know how to do it without googling it
I doubt that. It's pretty easy to figure out by looking at it.
because you know how it works, either way its all just generational b***hing, waste of time
>because you know how it works
Because I looked at it. There is a stop for your finger so you can't just keep going. With that in mind one would think you put your finger in the number hole and spin it to that stopper and you repeat it for each number in the phone number.
It's called problem solving and critical thinking.
>I'm so smart because a technology I was exposed to as a kid and was most certainly explained to me , I know how to use
yawn
>I was exposed to as a kid and was most certainly explained to me
Wrong on both counts, chief.
>I swear I swear I'm so super duper smart!!!!
frick off moron
>he can't puzzle things out so no one else can
You're only proving to be the moron here, cap.
Imagine not being able to figure out a rotary dial on your own and then acting like he's not an actual moron.
>kids today interact with small computers and slightly less small computers, maybe a small computer
Computers with limitations to make them moron-proof in order to sell more units to the lowest common denominator.
Dude, literal toddlers can use an iPad, they seem to understand technology pretty quick, just not the technology YOU like and so the world starts to cater to them. It’s why everything is an app, has an app, or the mobile version is better than the desktop sites now
its really not a complex thing to understand, either people are trolling or are moronic
>YOU like
>cater to them
Most mobile versions of sites are still garbage and it's not about what is liked, it's about what is used.
This is literally the same thing, people will like what they use or they will at least prefer it. When I mean the mobile site, I usually mean the app really. More than one occasion has an option not been available for the desktop version but is for the app, and this will continue as time goes on.
>More than one occasion has an option not been available for the desktop version but is for the app
I have never seen this be the case. If anything I've see the mobile versions have less features than the actual desktop site.
>Dude, literal toddlers can use an iPad, they seem to understand technology pretty quick
Touchscreen devices can be used by literal, actual, living monkeys. That doesn't mean that a monkey can code better than me, a non-indian.
Dude you’re being replaced by literally Indians, Mexicans, and AI. You’re utterly expendable
Where did I say I was a code monkey? Oh wait, are you the guy who can't fathom people having interests?
If you code as a hobby instead of commercially then who cares, you might as well not code at all
This. Keep on hustlin and grindin bro.
I mean if you code something and I can’t use it than it might as well not exist. And if you can code something worth a damn, why are you not living off that
Yeah bro I totally agree. You should ALWAYS be hustling and grinding dude, just like Tate tells me.
>born too early to explore the undiscovered world
>born too late to explore the undiscovered cosmos
>born just in time to realize that what should've been a winning birth roulette roll is actually one of the worst rolls because literal third world shitholes are more likely to get american jobs thanks to zoom calls letting them work remotely from their native pajeethole/cartel base than actual americans in america
>one of the worst rolls
You get to live in a place that isn't infested with crime and doesn't have garbage and literal human feces all over the streets. Even if you can't get a job, that's a better life than anyone in india or latin america could hope for.
And Americans commute to the office only to join zoom calls
No they didnt. The internet is an autodidacts wet dream, theres no excuse of 'nobody taught me how'. Do it yourself.
Gen Z are over 20 yo now. They are supposed to know this since they were kids
except no one taught me
I was using MSDOS at 5 years old to play shareware games, meaning I had to learn commands and their formatting as well as non-gui file structures
these are 12+ year olds who don't know what the frick a folder is when it even has a picture and a mouse you can navigate to it with
we've dumbed things down too much, kids no longer push themselves to learn anything, all they know is mcdonald's, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip and lie
>eat hot chip
How do you eat a band?
>now its your turn.
What are the countless computer tutorials on youtube made by millennials? This is how I learned to pirate/burn/use photoshop etc. This holds some value for IRL stuff, but when it comes to computers and phones, this is no excuse. There are countless tutorials out there that can be viewed with a push of a button
Nobody taught me shit. I got on the computer one day and taught myself. It was intuitive, I found the folder that had my games and I learned how to install things. Kids today are not only moronic, but companies KNOW how moronic they are and so they began the dumbing down process.
My dad stopped working in a technical field (printing industry) not long after we got a home PC for the first time so he never kept up on shit beyond that. He wasn't a total moron about computers but everything beyond "don't click random ads" I learned myself.
My mom only knew how to use Excel and Powerpoint for work and in general hated following directions on anything so she never learned either
>woman hates following directions on anything
Sounds about right. Story checks out
>someone taught you when you were a bumbling moron, now its your turn.
There are so many tutorials for pretty much anything computer-related nowadays that this isn't really a good excuse anymore.
in the early-mid 90s, the only thing we did at the elementary school computer lab was typing. they didn't teach us anything else. hell, they didn't even teach us how to turn it on and access the computer with a password. we had to figure the rest ourselves on our parents' computers or the family computer
Guess I was lucky my mid 90s computer classes taught me how to use win95/98 properly
Now that
mentioned it they even taught me how to format HDDs too
The whole point is that nobody taught us. Why the frick do you think we are the family "tech support" if someone taught us?
No they didn't lmao. Had to read online guides written by the company that are avaliable for free.
>now its your turn
I taught myself to install and run Windows 3.1 games from the dos command prompt at age 7.
Space Quest V, Monkey Island, Duke Nukem 3D shareware version.
You want to know how I managed to do that at age 7? I read a fricking manual.
Now it's /your/ turn, homosexual.
no?
many of the things I learned on my own, the same with many of my schoolmates in those days, computer classes were just a waste of time, we ended up learning more things by ourselves, and I lived the birth of facebook and smartphones in my teens
what happens is that the new generations already live with everything at hand, and they have no patience for anything, they are used to live with everything already done, and for the same reason they are incompetent in learning things by themselves
The internet was weirdly nice before the normalgay phoneposters gentrified it.
Back then you were discouraged to put your IRL info online too
>they see it like one bucket and everything's in the bucket
all you'd have to do to explain it is to tell them there are more buckets within the bucket.
but how would you feel if there was another bucket in the bucket?
I don't get it, there's only one bucket.
but then he doesn't get to dunk on children
Bucket inside a bucket inside a bucket
They didn't get to use the computer growing up, instead they had to use shitty tablets or Chrombooks in school, both of which are basically used as internet boxes, and out of school they still didn't use computers instead stuck with tablets and phones where the file system basically is just one big bucket.
Why does somebody want people to think gen z is moronic enough that they make the same thread with the same headline for 2 years in a row?
I unironically do not understand the endgame.
>I unironically do not understand the endgame.
Making fun of the younger generations has been part of human culture for thousands of years.
The baby boomers have spent the last twenty-odd years demonizing millennials for the stupidest of reasons, remember that?
No, I had pretty good parents and mentors.
>both are unjustified
boomers were coping. we are noticing an objective decline in humanity
the baby boomers grew up in an era of unprecedented wealth and prospects and then as soon as they reached middle age they went 'frick you, got mine' and proceeded to screw everyone else over
frick them
t.shit that never happened but i watched a youtube video
oh wow less population means higher quality of life and a better pay? STOP THE HEKKIN PRESSES
go back to the cage already loser, suck a Black person zoomer tiny dick
>suck a Black person zoomer tiny dick
You accidentally let your esl show a bit there shitskin
Cry about it b***h breasts, your country is browner than ever and your younger generation is a failure.
back to the cage
Browner than ever but still not as brown as yours. How is your younger generation doing by the way? Still shitting in the farmer's fields?
BLM
Trannies
Child Abuse
Drug Abuse
Zoomers are already more brown than white
Accept it, your country is burning and zoomers are the result. Also you are not white anymore, it's embarrassing to everyone else when you say that.
>spends all his time obsessed about some else's country
>insists it's worse than his
Uh huh. You're going to have to put in more effort than just parroting buzzwords you see on (american) media pajeet.
More like
>browse Ganker
>it's all trannies, Black folk and zoomers
>24/7
Just admit it, your country is losing and the younger generation is fricked up, they only b***h and moan about everything.
The state of the board and the state of your country is your own people fault and screaming at Indians, ESLs and clouds won't make a difference.
>reddit spacing shitskin too afraid to say what country it's from seethes about America
Every time!
He broke down the very moment he was exposed. Happens every time like clockwork.
You're just repeating yourself and have no argument at all. You are having a melty because the rest of the world is objectively better than you even in the shit state its currently in lmao
>You are having a melty because the rest of the world is objectively better than you even in the shit state its currently in lmao
Can't argue against delusion.
You weren't making any arguments though you were just sperging out
I just hate people that blame others for their misfortune when the baby boomers literally fought 2 wars to protect their countries and their people.
I also hate people that blame ESLs despite Ganker being mostly a EOP website. I guess it's just a coincidence it all went to shit once their younger generation started posting.
I also hate browsing the site when it's full of transexuals, actual racism and 0 video game discussions.
Get real. Zoomers are b***h made and you learned nothing from a great generation, rot in the cage.
>literally fought 2 wars to protect their countries and their people
>Vietnam
>Korea
>protect americans
what
>the baby boomers literally fought 2 wars to protect their countries and their people.
What wars? Korea and Vietnam? In what sense did those wars 'protect their countries and their people'?
Sweet backpeddling dipshit but nobody is going to forget your autistic shreaking. No matter what at the end of the day you'll still be a brown subhuman stuck in a third world shithole who can only interact with civilization by viewing media on the internet in some pay by the hour cafe. Never forget that you're trash and are lower than even the dumbest gorilla Black person in the bowls of chicago.
Get back in the cage you fricking failure. I can't wait for the next generation to sink you country even further.
you should become a woman right now stupid Black person, chop your dick off
You didn't understand the graph
>oh wow less population means higher quality of life and a better pay
and the hippy homosexual boomers voted for it Black person
>oh wow less population means higher quality of life and a better pay?
why?
>erm because there was more to go around relatively speaking
but productivity is up relatively speaking and now theres morer to go around?
>doesnt count. more people is more bad always
but population growth is negative in my country and things are getting worse?
the problem with this type of comparison is that it ignores how much less legwork needs to be done to achieve a higher level of productivity today
I think this chart reflects inflation (in regard to wages) and automation (in regards to productivity) more than anything
Nixon fault
You are aware that we still had homelessness and poverty in the 80s, right?
It's not like we paid off our mortgages and own or own properties without working the same 40 hour work weeks as you.
It's not our fault that it was millieniels created an unsustainable housing bubble by refinancing themselves into oblvion and taking on unrepayable student loan debts to the point where school tuition is overinflated and now they have to spend the rest of their lives as indentured servents to banks and universities.
Ya'll homies are grown ups now. Pay you debts or skibidi toilet Ohio or whatever you fricks are trying to accomplish by ruining the functioning economy that we tried to leave behind for you.
>nooooooo I can't achieve anything! And others are to blame!
Yeah, yeah, whatever you say mr. Student Debt
Every generation thinks this
I agree that things are bad right now and getting worse, but it's not because a few token young people don't have a skill you value
People 100 years ago were probably dooming because the average person didn't know how to ride a horse. Apply these standards to your own generation and you'll realize that inept people exist everywhere.
t. Wizard
Apply
Every generation thinks this because the downward slope is real and eventually every civilization collapses after corruption/nepotism takes over the government and moral standards slowly erode until they are gone.
that schizo dystopia looks rad as frick, i wanna go to the fema walmart
>humanity is declining because culture war grifters told me things people are allowed to do are BAD
t. grifter
Sure, but just straight up making up things is new heights.
>Someone doesn't know how to do something
>OH NO THE WEST HAS FALLEN
>Instead...of just telling him how shit works so he'll know what to do
Wow it’s almost like people don’t know what they don’t need to know. Do you know how to put tack on a horse and attach it to a buggy? You don’t. You know how to drive a car.
i don't think it's only gen z. i use to subdivide hundreds of folders based topic and then even more folders inside those folders but now i stopped bothering and it's all one folder full of slop
Say what you will about Zoomers but their memes are hilarious.
Agreed. Y'all should have a more open mind.
Bro is visiting his friend
zoomers retvrned
I still don't get it
Here is a meme more suited to your era, grandpa.
Why are zoomers obsessed with the exaggeration of facial features?
Memes used to be fun and thought provoking, not pieces of garbage that tickle your braindead brocooli hair
Calling everything on the internet "a meme" like you just did is a classic zoomerism. Memes were never "thought-provoking", they were always devices for a cheap laugh.
Reminder that if you think this comic is saying beer tastes bad and everyone just pretends to like it, you're autistic
>memes used to be fun and thought provoking
The first meme I ever saw on Ganker was a picture of some guy's dick with blue MS paint over it calling itself "teh rei" back in like 2005 or 2006. I can assure you the quality has never improved nor was it ever thought provoking lmao
>rebranded rage face dialogue
Time is a flat circle
I'm sure there's an OG rage face edit of this somewhere. Unfortunately (or not) the guy who drew this shit originally doesn't know why it was popular so it's probably gonna disappear soon
Great, they all have a future as a generation of clowns.
>generic template meme
>formatted to be as tame and inoffensive as possible
It's shit.
culture and technical competence aren't really valuable traits. we tried teaching millennials to be knowledgable and worldly and they gave us moslems, trannies, Boeing, avocado toast, Homestuck pornography, Steven Universe, UNDERTALE, and the SCP Wiki.
Technical competence IS a valuable trait, its what allows people to have technological autonomy and not rely entirely on datasharing apps or subservient to predatory subscription based business models that will actually bleed the doordash addicted generation dry. Not to mention that without it, youll be as vulnerable to identity theft and malware as the other tech illiterate generations. Its the information age and the difference between being a 'user' and an 'administrator' is as important a distinction as between a serf and a free man. ignoring your whataboutism btw.
>ignoring your whataboutism btw
that's not what that means, anon.
>technical competence aren't really valuable traits
*laughs in six figures*
electricians and plumbers make 6 figures nowadays. 100k doesn't make you rich like it did 30 years ago
if this is what you actually believe, i feel sorry for you
Can 100k get you a nice house in a major city now? No
Why would you EVER want to live in a major city? They are all Black person infested shitholes lmao what a moronic take
So you can't? Good to know, thanks for the chat
>I don't know what a loan is: the post
*laughs in perfect credit*
I have >800 credit and make >100k but that guy's right (while his house comparison is fricked up and all moronic), 100k isn't rich
>can buy shit from Balenciaga
>doesn't
imagine being a guccicel and not diving a leased 7 series
I'll get there but I have a lot of mewing I need to do
I'm not that guy you were originally talking to but alright. Good luck out there doomer.
i have no idea how fricked you are in the US, but in Europe, 100k a year can definitely get you this. me and my wife make a combined ~90k and with one or two years of aggressive savings, you definitely have enough equity capital to be given a nice credit with good conditions, more than enough to buy a nice house with garden. obviously not a mansion in the nicer parts of the metropols, but nobody wants to live there anyway.
Because everything is done via mobile tables/phones these days, and more and more laptops are just using that same bullshit tablet/phone os where everything is an app where your photos are stored in the photos app, etc.
It's the same reason why we didn't learn much DOS growing up in school in the 90s, GUIs replaced command prompts in most cases.
What? I would literally fail all of my college classes if I didn't know how file systems worked because practically all of my work is sent electronically and I have to convert them to pdfs and shit, sometimes .zip files. Who wrote this article?
I somehow figured out winzip and No$gmb in 1998, I was in 3rd grade.
>mfw playing pokemon blue for free and a bunch of other SNES games
the world literally spawned a single (1) generation that knows how to use computers
It's not a meme I'm a Zoomer and all my friends don't understand stuff like winrar, piracy, homebrewing, torrents, emulation, hell even ad block. They think I'm some wizard when I've just been doing what I thought everyone else knew. If you want to play certain games you eventually learn how to emulate games or pirate music or software. It's no wonder streaming services are so popular with normies
Well I'm also a zoomer and my friends and I all know the stuff you described and they're mostly all normies. Maybe your friends are just morons
I don't think it's just that though normies just don't understand how to do basic shit like downloading qbittorrent or simply going to websites for anime they wanna watch instead of paying for it. Maybe it's a convince sort of thing I'm not sure
>winrar
The mark of the technologically illiterate. You are no better than them
it's phones and chromebooks, everyone has the former and they give out the latter in almost every school. both are extremely streamlined in a way that everyone can use it and it has all the games/work/social media that they need but they don't allow for doing much else
Chromebooks are just laptops, I had one because it was cheap but I used Dell laptops and desktops in high school 10 years ago. Not much changed.
omg us Gankerners r so smart lmao normies zoomer trannies Black folk israelites women LIFE IS NOT WORTH IT Ganker FOREVER!!!
>why yes I do know how to use powershell. How could you tell?
The age/wealth gap is going to get even worse over the next few decades. Zoomers simply cannot compete in a modern workplace against anyone older than them.
It's because Gen Z uses Minio S3 for their data storage dumbass.
>Why is Gen Z so technologically incompetent?
because all they know is phones, tablets and webapps.
they never been exposed to what is beneath because these things are purposefully obscured to make it as userfriendly and moron proof as possible.
if you never used linux then how the frick would you know how to use a package manager?
same thing applies here.
>kids today are fricking moronic
>have kids yourself
>teach them all the ways of being an intellectual
>they become successful due to lack of competition
>they become rich and they let you live off their money
Time to have sex anons.
how would they become rich by learning the things that you already know?
are you rich?
if you are then why do you need money from the kids?
yeah seriously this is a real thing. my nephew only uses tablets and touchscreen devices. has zero idea how to manage a keyboard and mouse or anything to do with a pc. shit's crazy
Because zoomers don't need to use PCs anymore. Tablets, phones, and chromebooks do all that stuff for you. It would be like making fun of millenials like yourself for not understanding how to troubleshoot a modem.
Those days you could give step by step instructions on how to pirate your favorite game with links to everything you needed on every website there was. Now if you mention piracy on normies sites you are banned, if you mention the places you can go to talk about piracy you are banned and even on the places you're allowed to talk about it you're expected to already know most of the information required. You failed your children it isn't the zoomer's fault.
I have never seen a single "step by step instruction on how to pirate". Dumb zoomer moron, it IS your fault, and if it's only the lack of curiosity.
>the lack of curiosity
I think that this is the key. Why would you go out of your way to learn anything anymore when you have an all-knowing sheet of glass at your literal fingertips that always seems to know how to keep you entertained? Content is too easy to obtain and consume, which basically turns children into zombies. Anyway, I think the article in OP is somewhat exaggerating the situation for zoomers. I'm more worried about gen alpha on this front.
t. zoomer
>I have never seen a single "step by step instruction on how to pirate".
i learned how to pirate things from a guide on pirating multiplayer-compatible cracked starcraft posted to a super smash bros melee clan in 2001
there have been pirating guides for almost as long as pirating has been a thing
>You failed your children it isn't the zoomer's fault.
Using your moronic gay lack of responsibility logic, its actually the millenial's parents fault that millenials didnt raise zoomers differently. Take it up a notch on the totem poll ad infinium and achieve nothing with that flawed logic, OR let them take responsibility for who they are instead of treating them like instinct driven animals who cant be held to standards.
Millennials aren't the parents to zoomers, gen-X is
I will never ever stop saying this. Zoomers are fricking b***hes because their parents who grew up in the 70s were also humanity biggest b***hes.
Sharty are also little b***hes because their parents are fricking dead or don't care about them.
HO!
baby boomers are legitimately the worst generation
>stolen valor from silent and greatest generation
>birthed slacktivism and anti-intellectualism in the US
>actively blocking younger people from being able to own property
>destroying the environment for profit
is it the lead in their brains making them incapable of empathy or something?
Nah sorry.
The 70s and the 2000s will be known as generational failures. It can't be helped, time is a flat circle.
Yeah it's totally the boomers and not the behemoth megacorporations doing their best to return us to feudalism.
I wonder who owns those
Yeah yeah we all know who. I'm not going to pretend it's just the usual suspects though.
The only ones who want to return to feudalism are leftists who want the government to control every aspect of existence.
>every corpo wants a subscription based service
>Giant companies buying up housing and utilities such as water
>You buy licenses to use software instead of owning actual products
Feudalism is renting from your lord. Instead of Kings we now have billionaires and business conglomerates who fill that role. It's already happening.
>is it the lead in their brains making them incapable of empathy or something?
Yes its proven that lead has a effect on the brain.
>silent and greatest generation
You mean the generation that fought for ZOG and decided to let in millions of smelly immigrants? There hasn't been a good generation since before the Enlightenment
There is nothing flawed about that logic. Free will is pure copium. You are 100% the result of external factors and you have no control over your actions.
>give them tablets and phones
>never show them how to use PC's
>surprised when they don't know how to use one
I want to shoot morons that post this thinking it's some kinda epic own
just teach the younger generation?
Oh wait you guys don't have kids.
damn u didnt have have to be so cold bruh
bro woke up an chose violence
>spend a day figuring out how to jailbreak my iPhone 4
>I surpass my entire generation
winning, I can drag AND I can drop.
Even if zoomers don’t understand folders shouldn’t it take like 5 minutes to learn? It’s not that complicated
HES DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN
IM BLOCKING DUDEEEEEEEE
IM BLOCKING
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This practically means most of them will flunk highschool.
You don't cant flunk anymore anymore until uni
This was basic shit taught to me very young in school. If zoomers aren't learning then either these sorts of classes are not being taught anymore or none of the zoomers are paying any attention nor retaining any information.
I'm not sure which is worse. As a millenial I guess I am forever doomed to explain simple tech bullshit to people. I thought I was finally done showing boomers how to set up e mails and now I get to do it with zoomers too. Cool.
gen z kids are legit fricked bro, my younger relatives don't know how to type fast on pc because the mostly use phones. At their age i was already pirating stuff left and right but most have no idea what a torrent actually is.
I think my biggest surprise was when my 9y old cousin was having a hard time doing some research project for school and when i asked what her hurdle was, she said there wasn't any tik tok info about what she needed to do. Mfers are using tik tok as a search engine instead of google lmao.
how old were they though?
i could not do fast typing physically until like 14 - 15 y/o, i was simply typing at my own pace before that
>teens, the only one who could type was the one who played piano (don't know if there is a correlation between that tho). Their ages range between 13-17
when i meant they couldn't type i legit say they act like 80y granpas who never seen a keyboard in their life
>At their age i was already pirating stuff left and right but most have no idea what a torrent actually is.
Well that wasn't normal for kids either.
For people like me who live in a third world country it is. We had to learn to pirate from a young age, otherwise it would be almost impossible to listen to music or play vidya.
>Mfers are using tik tok as a search engine instead of google lmao.
The saddest part is Google is so shit now that TikTok unironically answers a lot of questions better
it does sound ridiculous at first, but it makes sense when you realize tiktok will probably give you a video of an actual person explaining something
Apparently some pajeet fricked it up in 2019 or so
I have sixteen year old zoomer cousins who know how to use Dolphin.
Anecdotal evidence, I know, but every generation has its fair share of technologically-inept people, not just zoomers.
e-girlng at the OP getting majorly ratio'd in the comments. Eat the L and move on lmao.
>HURRR Y U NO TEECH DEM
Weird, nobody taught me how to use a computer, too. In fact I am teaching my parents how to use computers.
ITT: 18 year olds making fun of 15 year olds
normies are bad at computers.
it is, it was, it will be.
its coming
It wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
And 1984 wasn't supposed to be a manual, but hey.
it's a nice documentary, it needs more trannies doe
I'm glad my desire to download anime got me into Ganker
>wow you're not familiar with a made up system that has not been relevant to your life before now oh dear god I cannot even
Why are old people like this? There's literally a billion things your grandfather could do that you couldn't even begin to comprehend without some guidance and context (and there's nothing wrong with that).
Meh bait 4/10
>Be me. A Millennial
>Spend childhood and teenage years trying to teach boomers how technology works
>Now have to spend adult years teaching zoomers how technology works
Exhausting. No wonder a bunch of my generation are trooning out and killing themselves.
I remember discovering what a zip file was and how to extract from it back when I was five years old
People these days don't ever get presented the actual files, they're shown abstractions. If they're lucky a Windows user might wonder why the file they clicked opened as a folder
>Used to think it was a meme
>Boomer older cousin asked me how to rizz the gyat no cap fr fr lil bro was clueless
Your cousin isn't moronic because he didn't know that stuff, he's rmoronic because he didn't just google the answers to whatever questions he had. If your first instinct is to directly ask people for information instead of looking for it on your own, you are a brainlet.
Have you tried googling recently, boomerbro? Back when I was small I did google a lot and it was pretty great. Now it's all SEO spam and AI crap.
Yes, I know google sucks ass now, but for basic inquiries like "what do I do with a zip file" you'll still get an answer. It's still the best way to start gathering info on general topics you're unfamiliar with.
Yeah you'll get an answer buried in filler text and probably suggestions to download extremely ass-sucky software that's certainly not 7zip.
You just proved his point by not searching it to check before you typed that. You are the moron. Youre wrong btw, since I know you wont check.
No? The first result on google says to right click and extract all, which is a perfectly fine solution. You don't really need 7zip for a simple zip archive.
I remember when my parents bought me my first computer. Windows ME edition. What a treat. They thought I'd use it to become more productive (no idea what sort of computer work an 11-year-old would need to do...) but I ended up using it mostly to play free Pictionary clones. I never drew the word given, and would instead draw a stick figure fricking a llama. Every game and every round.
>get first PC when 10
>get first Mobile Phone when 12
>pirate pretty much as soon as our house gets internet
>think that the kids who are born after 2010 will be fricking techno wizards and hackers from a young age
Yeah, that didn't turn out so well. People tend to like the path of least resistance, and that path is called "Apple".
I swear that is one reason why people are fricking helpless. They pay for convenience, but never learned how to deal with inconvenience.
The Venn Diagram of people above age 60 who don't know shit about tech and people below age 25 who don't know shit about tech, is a circle.
People also thought that access to the internet would make people smarter since they would have access to the sum total of humanity's collective knowledge at their literal fingertips.
It just made people dumber and less independent lmao
I find it horrifying that the majority of my generation doesn't even use google to solve a problem like when I pirated for the first time I didn't know what a zip. file is but one quick search and I had winrar.
google is legitimately useless now
even using something like searx to aggregate multiple search engines and piling a bunch of filters on top will only sometimes give you useful results
omg :OOOO
*hands the mensa invitation*
Sometimes I wonder to myself: If everyone I wanted to kill themselves actually did it would there actually be anyone left alive? I doubt it.
Necessity is the mother of innovstion and modern software has been made accessible to the point morons can operate them. Therefore zoomers will not understand technology beyond the lowest level of operation and understanding required. That said, the loss of knowledge of piracy is strange. All 4 of my siblings independantly learned how to pirate without teaching eachother, and so did I. I dont recall reading how a torrent worked other than that I needed to use one, which is not forbidden knowledge you cant find anymore, in fact VPNs are constantly advertising everywhere. The idea of pirating is more public knowledge now, yet everyone itt is suggesting the zoomers dont know how. The zoomer friends I have dont know either, tried showing one how but he said he was scared so he had me torrent something for him and give it to him personally. Inexplicable.
The one zoomer friend I have discussed with me and he only pirates games as a way to "punch back" at big publishers and such. He downright hates the fact that people pirate smaller games and thinks it hurts smaller devs. He doesn't get that most pirates wouldn't buy the games either way and devs shouldn't worry about that.
Hit him with the ol' "If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing."
My most normalgay millennial friends are pretty much the same as zoomers except they do everything on Macbooks instead of Iphones. It's like a 30% chance a millennial will be technologically literate where as it's a 25% chance with a zoomer.
>duhhh my cousin doesn't know how to extract files therefore the ENTIRE generation doesn't, what is wroong with this generation duhhh
you guys will make fun of boomers all day and then say shit like this, 0 self awareness
>t. 19 year old
I can't wait until you start crying about Gen Alpha in ten years kiddo. This shit is a cycle that never ends lmao
why the falseflag? this board is inundated with zoomers, everyone else already left
who exactly are you trying to appeal to?
Unfortunately it isn't just normies. I'm in my 30s and everyone outside of IT where I work knows nothing about computers other than what they've been told explicitly to use for work. A good deal of them are around my age too, but they'll happily be on their phones doing shit.
I'm 18 and I've been torrenting shit and using computers since I could even think. I pirated BO1 on PC and played solo zombies when I was like 10.
Why lie on an anonymous board on the internet?
There's this zoomer in my server who is currently in college for game making and he didn't know what a zip file was.
Because he can get away with it without proof.
>Games back in the day were passion projects by fricking nerds
>Today people go to school to learn the "right" way to make games
I am no longer surprised by the lack of quality in modern games.
even nowadays people will call you a fricking moron if you decide to go to university for game design instead of something like compsci
Because it's just a cs program for people with no future.
That's because only an idiot would want to be a games dev at a big company: you're either in full crunch mode for peanuts, working your love away to produce slop, or getting fired after release so they can give your job to the fat LGBT latinxa who doesn't code but makes sure every character's suitably diverse
people go to school to learn the "right" way to make games
more like the "left" way
nta but I'm 26 and I've been emulating since I was 11 and torrenting since I was 13
it's a miracle my family never got any complaints from my ISP because I didn't know shit about VPNs back then
ISPs don't give a shit unless someone specifically singles out a torrent, which isn't going to happen unless it's a very recent movie or album, even then it's only a maybe
They'd rather go after the sites hosting shit than random buttholes downloading it.
I've gotten two letters in the mail over the years because my son tried to pirate Dishonored once years ago and the secret of Monkey Island years before that. I tried to tell the fricker to use a VPN but he is a total dipshit honestly and doesn't retain any information.
Dunno man I've torrented terabytes worth of shit in a single month before and never got a peep
I only use a VPN to get around region blocked shit
You can choose not to believe me, I'm just sharing my own experience
I wasn't a kid that got every single game I asked for so I had to learn to pirate to play the games I wanted to. Alongside a shitty laptop I also had to learn how the frick to not make the game shit itself every 5 seconds
Although I wasn't introduced into tech on my own, my older siblings were into tech and I was basically looking at desktops since I was a baby
Well if anything I definitely believe you are underaged based on your burning need to explain yourself. Take solace in that I guess.
>millennials got constantly shit on
ok boomer
>zoomers turn comes
noooooo not cool fr fr on god
>boomcels retiring from the workforce
>millennialoids take over leadership
>won't hire zoomjaks since they can't into folders
>invents AIchads to replace them
KEK
i'm gen Z and 27 years old, let that sink in...
Honestly, the vast majority of millennials don't know how to do this shit either: the main problem is that nerd-only things have become increasingly normiefied amongst the zoomer generation
>early zoomer myself
>learned how to download files, edit images and play games on emulators before i even turned 10
>played roblox back in 2008 because interest from watching youtube videos
It can't be all of us right? I didn't have a phone until my mid-late teen years because I didn't want one. I feel like this lack of simple computer knowledge became more prevalent with gen alpha kids growing up with phones, and at the worst its zoomers born in the late 00's.
This ong frfr I don't actually know how NTFS works
t. zoomer
>tfw your nephew helped you homebrew your PSvita
Bless that little brat. Saved me a ton of trouble, and since that POS console doesn't have any games, it's good to have hundreds of emulated titles to enjoy.
This isn't a problem really. You don't need to know pcs and mobile devices work internally.
What is a problem is how the people spend the time they won
my dad thought me how to burn cds and pirate games when i was in elementary
>companies want more money
>could do their best to make people smarter
>smarter people know how to make more money
>instead they try to keep people as stupid as possible
>because stupid people are easy to trick?
hate to see it
I can only hope that Reagan is in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down to him
Generation war bullshit like always, designed to get you in the headspace of identifying yourself with a marketing demographic so they can sell to you.
My youngest sister is a zoom and she's a fricking sys admin for Google. Stop falling for this bullshit
t. 35
And now they need Hydra Launcher to pirate games
It's pathetic, really.
It's similar to how GUI toddlers don't understand how a command line works.
if the government wasnt malicious and evil this stuff would be taught to kids in elementary school
but here we are
>wtf i cant believe someone who's never encountered a zip file has no idea how they work
If I told you to just "ssh into a linux server from your pc its that easy" then you'd probably look it up or refer to someone else.
Also, OP, you genuine homosexual, help your cousin.
>then you'd probably look it up
exactly
but kids are too dumb to look anything up
they just shut down when they encounter something they dont know
It's more that googling anything tech-related is a skill within itself.
Sure, learning to unzip a folder doesn't really count but learning how to pirate a game involves a little more than just unzipping something. You need to know what terms you're referring to, and those are things you only acquire when you're explained them, or when you're given some sort of reason to. Not only because googling or looking shit up when things are technical are difficult when you start branching into harder things with specific cases, but also because search engines nowadays are fricking horrid.
Pirating a video game is a great way to get a child/teen invested more into learning how a computer works and OP could potentially do everyone a favor by extending their help to their cousin. He's got a reason and now he just needs guidance.
N
>one bucket and everythings in the bucket
Technical truth idorts. Technobabble doesn't communicate abstracts; abstracts have to be understood and extracted.
This NEVER would have happened if installing minecraft mods and skins involved placing the mods or textures in a folder as god intended. But these asshomosexuals had to make bloated as frick CURSEFORGE Black person software to do it for them
No one is teaching them these things. Millennials forget they grew up during a push for computer literacy that no longer exists. Instead of scoffing or sinking into bewildered apathy, teach them what you know. Arm the youth and they will be grateful. Deride them and you will be discarded in turn.
How can you teach someone with the attention span of a goldfish that thinks they already know all the answers because of tiktok? If anything I am more inclined to exploit their dumb asses for as much as I can.
All of you are part of the problem.
no no no we Pulled Ourselves Up By Our Bootstraps™ you don't get it
I never said I don't help people you imbecile, but that's because I'm not worried about being discarded like you moronicly implied you somehow wouldn't be.
>inb4 but muh self employment!
People who are self employed still need people to hire them and/or pay for products/services from them.
You're not getting paid doing things for you and the zoomers you teach will take your place whether you like it or not.
ALL of the teaching was self taught because I wanted to play videogames, not get caught looking at porn, look at porn, and use the web in general. Computer classes were all DOGSHIT - qbasic SUCKS and so did all the fundamental programming crap they tried to teach. Typing in computer class didnt do shit to improve our words per minute, AOL instant messenger and shit talking and banter in online videogames did.
No one taught us shit, we just had to learn these things because it was the only way of making things work.
Now that things are more convenient, there's no need.
You will also be discarded for teaching them when the one(s) you're working for decide they want the 20 year old who will take pennies on the dollar compared to you for the same job.
There's noway to not be discarded under hyper capitalism.
>they grew up during a push for computer literacy
I must have missed that. That only things we learned was typing and how to google shit for school reports.
What fantasy land did you grow up in?
Do schools just not have computer labs anymore or something? I feel like using Windows for any extended period of time gets you acclimated to folders and whatnot well enough
>my zoomer cousin asked for help with something
>of course I didn't help him, instead I schizoposted on an anonymous imageboard
>wtf why doesn't he know how to do this???
where does it say he didnt help him
>so my house caught fire last week
>AND YOU'RE POSTING HERE INSTEAD OF PUTTING THE FIRE OUT???
moron
missing the forest for the trees, friend
Zoomers don't deserve to be helped
any biz people that can tell me what this is?
covid make money printer go BRRRRR
dw about it
I'm so embarassed that milennials ended up falling for the same fricking moronic THE KIDS ARE DUMBER THAN I WAS bullshit that every generation before us did, I thought we were gonna be self-aware and dudge that shit. I thought the jnternet meant we'd actually be exposed to the zooms and we'd remember how cringe and moronic it was when boomers and gen x did it to us. I thought we were gknna be a whole generation of cool uncles who might not get what the kids are into, but could respect it BECAUSE it was different than how we did it
But no, moronation and a desperate desire to attach oneself to a "superior" group to combat low self-esteem won out and we're repeating the exact same fricking song and dance
Zoomers are doing the exact same thing to Gen Alpha right now, it's a neverending cycle.
not that I've noticed, most of the ire I've seen has actually been aimed towards millennials for giving their children (gen alpha) ipads instead of actually parenting them
even a lot of gen alpha's brainrot memes (skibidi ohio gyatt, yes those are gen alpha memes, zoomers repeat them ironically) get hand-waved as just being that generation's MLG equivalent
>dudge
Listen if the world wasn't moronic and didn't decide that phones with slide out keyboards were passé I wouldn't be fat fingering every key while I type my garbage out on the shitter but we don't live in that world, do we?
Problem is that millenials are the first generation that is correct about it.
Oh yeah I'm sure we're right where everyone else was moronic, we're the only good generation. Grow up.
>we
No, zoomie, not "we".
I'm in my mid 30s kek. Don't be fricking moronic
Sure you are kid.
Dude millennials are so fricking lame that bad writing is now called millennial writing. Get real
>Dude millennials are so fricking lame that bad writing is now called millennial writing
BY millennials, the generation that is well known for shitting on itself.
oh it's not just millennials, everyone else got sick of you a decade ago
>everyone else got sick of you a decade ago
So, when you were still shitting your pants? Bold claim, Aaron.
zoomers are in their 20s now, some are even approaching 30, just because you're detached from reality doesn't mean the world stops moving with you
>Everyone hates millennials
>Including millennials
God you guys suck go buy a funko pop and watch big bang theory or something
Milennials are the generation that pushed all this DEI shit and trooned out. They are why everything is a remake or a remaster now. What did you honestly expect from them when most of them need a wienertail of meds to act normal?
I personally think the Gen X people get off way too easy. They got fricked by boomers harder than the rest of us and instead of doing better they just made everything worse. I think the worst part is nobody ever calls them out on their shit because they don't have a cool nickname like 'boomer' or 'milennial' or 'zoomer'.
say what you will about them, but Generation X is a cool as frick name, sounds like some cool sci-fi shit
Zoomers and Gen As aren't exactly doing a great job of proving themselves as smart as the previous gens.
Then again millenials thought planking was fun.
Ganker isn't a reliable representative of millenials
Almost every millenial here has probably spent too long here and is, as a result, a misanthrope who looks for any demographic they can possibly talk shit on to feel better about themselves.
I mean just look at this thread. People here will willingly admit they're spending thirties browsing Ganker to win an argument.
As if that doesn't make you seem more pathetic to literally anyone except other losers doing the same thing. People don't want to admit this place is more of an echo chamber than literally any other social media we like to shit on
I think you're right lol just look at
Your troons, your younger generation, your website. Notmyproblem.png
whatever you say lil bro
Aren't you 26? or 28? everything falls into place real fast once you zoomers drop the irony.
Hyper capitalism.
apple products have been a disaster for the human race
I might be hopeful but I think young zoomer/gen alphas are going to be 90% lobotomized consoomer biowaste, but 10% will be insanely powerful users that can harness all the tech us older generations built before, plus AI. I follow some of these kids on Twitter (mainly software/low level hardware) and they're clever as frick. But according to relatives in teaching, the majority are complete fricking morons who think that being a Twitch streamer is a viable career path.
prove me you aren't a zoom zoom and name me 10 filesystems
Everytime this thread comes up, I'd like to remind you that none of you probably know anything about how the inner workings of a car or motorbike or whatever you use as a mode of transport actually works. You can't repair it, you can't perform maintanence on it, yet you use it, and it's considered essential. Not many of you are actually interested nor want to learn about how any of this shit with a car/bike works.
It's the same shit with computers. The people who don't care, weren't likely to EVER care, they are just using it because it is a requirement to use it. It's not a generational thing suddenly.
>naming 10 things that don't matter except from maybe 3 filesystems that are ever used
Yea what an important technical knowledge that clearly is related to whether or not you're from one generation or not.
Um actually I played my summer car so..
It's actually funny seeing threads like these play out. Your elders complained that you weren't learning about things that were important to them and now you guys are doing the same with computers. It's the same with slang.
>oh my god you are butchering the language!!!
No, slang has always existed and language is dynamic. You used words like "phat" and got laughed at now you wear it like a badge of honor.
There's a difference between using slang words with otherwise normal grammar and ffr no cap bussin fo realz n*gga talk yo.
There is 0 functional difference. Any words that is said/written enough will eventually be adopted and there's nothing you can do about it but b***h.
Ah shit I forgot that you people are also functionally illiterate. But funny enough you're proving my point with your dumbass post.
True, instead we said BASED things like ROFLMAO 420 blaze it
>that were important to them and now you guys are doing the same with computers.
EXCEPT that computers are important to the youths. That's the whole point you dipshit.
>unable to do class work because they don't understand computers
This is on par with not being able to read and you're saying "who needs to read? stupid old people, don't complain people can't read!"
>Your elders complained that you weren't learning about things that were important to them and now you guys are doing the same with computers.
Except the computers running a lot of shit are so old there are bascially only people in their 50's who know how to run them that cannot be replaced but also cannot live forever.
>You used words like "phat"
Sorry, I am of English/Welsh/Scottish descent and don't live in a place full of people fresh off the boat/plane. I speak English, not shittyfricker.
>this specific example doesn't apply to me personally
What the frick are anecdotes? You think that most people your age are fixing cars? Did you fail Critical Thinking 101 class?
I know a lot of people who at least can look up what is wrong because ideally you don't want to leave it to the mechanic because they will make shit up to charge you for.
Surely you understand not being ripped off.
My andecdotal evidence has more weight than your unsubstantiated claims, Mr. Critical Thinker.
He's not thinking critically, he's generalizing just as he's whining about doing. Likely because he's one of the morons being made fun of and coping about it.
This is unironically an example of "what if you didn't eat breakfast this morning" that applies specifically to white people. This is hilarious how they are losing their minds because they can't imagine other millennials can't fix cars.
t. anon who pays out the ass to get his oil filter changed
bro literally just fricking google shit what is wrong with you?
everyone knows google and youtube exists, anyone who is too dumb to think that maybe they can find the info they want if they look there is legitimately moronic
I don't know, I was usually able to understand slang based on context(I'm ESL so I had to figure them out all based on context) but I am completely out of my depth with the recent ones because they no longer are "normal" changes in language but more of in-jokes that don't make sense in context at all
For example, "no cap" usually has enough context to figure out what it meant, but the words themselves mean absolutely nothing and are impossible to derive meaning from if you don't partake in twitch chat
What the frick is even "Ohio" or "Sigma"? It's like if the narwhal bacon reddit thing actually caught on and became mainstream english language.
>but the words themselves mean absolutely nothing and are impossible to derive meaning from
these are called idioms
This has always been the case anon you are just not educated enough or haven't noticed the patterns. What the frick does "jumping the shark" or "kick the bucket" mean if you didn't have context? Then there are words like "OK" which a deliberate misspelling of "All Correct" (Oll Korrect) as a meme in-joke that caught on. At least you aren't proud of not knowing this like other anons.
>What the frick does "jumping the shark" or "kick the bucket" mean if you didn't have context?
Those were usually used in normal sentences so it is very simple to figure out what they meant.
Really, I could easily figure out shit like blud, rizz, gyatt, no cap, fr and other moronic slang after seeing 1-2 sentences using them but I have yet to see a single sentence where I can puzzle out the meaning of Ohio, they all feel barely coherent.
Ohio homies are lame, it’s a flyover state that no one cares about.
adding on to this
the joke was just making up crazy shit that supposedly happens in ohio, even though everyone knows it's a very boring, average place. The Lil B song "Swag Like Ohio" also made a resurgence in popularity because of it.
from what I've read there is no consensus on the origin of "ok"
>'d like to remind you that none of you probably know anything about how the inner workings of a car or motorbike or whatever you use as a mode of transport actually works.
I took a small engines class and I have family that ran auto shops so I have an idea of how they USED to work.
>I have family that ran auto shops so I have an idea of how they USED to work.
Yea, it's like you had external pressure that made you actively acquire that knowledge, mostly because you were encouraged to by your family.
Why the frick do you think people take driving lessons and have a theory test along with a practical?
>it's like you had external pressure that made you actively acquire that knowledge
I wasn't. They didn't offer to teach me anything at all. I asked. I sought out the knowledge.
>Why the frick do you think people take driving lessons and have a theory test along with a practical?
Because they're required to by law. If not for that they'd be as illiterate about their vehicles as they are with their devices.
The point here is that zoomers or whatever generations after the 00's are not simply stupid, they're just completely uninterested in learning and understanding anything deeper than the surface level about any subject without pressure.
Understanding how (modern) cars work is like understanding how the silicone layer works.
Understanding how file systems work is like understanding what the fricking buttons on the dashboard do.
You're a moron.
>You can't repair it, you can't perform maintanence on it,
Speak for yourself, homosexual.
I actually know how to perform maintenance and have a decent general idea on the inner workings of cars.
And even if I didn't, I know I can google shit up and find out anything I need in less than 2 minutes.
>Google "replace starter in 2013 Kia Forte"
>see video
>do it
>save hundreds of dollars
tbf you are correct however car companies in the last decades have on purpose made it harder and harder to repair your car. The same is happening to phones and laptops.
And the same thing happened/is happening to file systems as a whole.
>they're just completely uninterested in learning and understanding anything deeper than the surface level about any subject without pressure
Yea that's how most people are? One of the big reasons that millenials know more than any other generation about computers is that they grew up during a boom in both jobs and when desktop computers became a mainstay in your average well-off family home.
Everyone was learning how computers worked. They were going through such a process in which it was trendy and therefore were pressured to do so to be a cool kid or in with the crowd.
Nowadays its absorbed within the public conciousness and computers have been around long enough for 2-3 generations to have hands-on experience across many fields. Did you think that shit like the Micro or DOS just "happened to come out when a specific generation was in focus" and that's why a bunch of game devs got their start with those pieces of hardware?
No it's because the tools were new and they were the things that made people give a shit. Pressure HAS been one of the most important factors within innovation, learning or creation of practically anything.
>in which it was trendy and therefore were pressured to do so to be a cool kid or in with the crowd.
IT wasn't trendy and people would actively make fun of you.
I feel like you didn't actually live back then.
Were you? People chatted after school on numerous messenger things, AIM was big at the time. You didn't have to be a massive computer nerd to sue it nor where you assumed to be so.
There is a big level of difference in using AIM and doing something like using Kazaa.
>MPC on a Mac
>Windows property dialog
At least put in SOME effort
>Yea that's how most people are?
You're not wrong in what you're saying, but you're moving the goalpost.
People of my generation, even the previous generation, that had no pressure to learn the absolute basics of how to use a computer, knew how file systems work.
This generation, even people working/studying in the tech field, are very likely to not know that.
>t. Work as an IT consultant in a university
>t. Work as an IT consultant in a university
No offense to you because I'm sure you're a swell guy but I hate the usual people who take your job with a fricking passion. Wish that most of you would actually let the professors do fun shit nowadays like host a linux server internally or some older protocol messenger shit.
t. graduated in CS last year
>implying it's the IT monkeys who decide the safety measures
Again it's boomers who want to protect their asses, so everything gets VERBOTEN.
Exfat (your mom)
Fat32
Ntfs
Btrfs
Ext3
Ext4
Zfs
Fricking uhh HDFS?
The older ext*s
I give up.
you only ever need to know there's fat32 and ntfs, no need for the average person to know the rest really
>Why is Gen Z so technologically incompetent?
As opposed to millennials who would delete system32 if someone with a copy of unregistered hypercam and notepad.exe told them it would increase their fps?
You want the real answer? Millenials are the only generation that needed to figure out file systems to access games and porn.
>reeeeeeee why aren't people born knowing things
>Just teach them, JUST TEACH THEM!
Bullshit. I didn't grow up with this technology and I still taught myself how to use it.
Zoomer here
>I will not work to provide for the economy
>I will not learn how to use technology
>I will listen to the government ( the chinese one)
>I will destroy my attention span
>I will pay for subscriptions
>I will not have sex
and theres nothing you can do about grandpa
>Verification not required.
>it's the daily zoomer hate thread
This was a chinese meme and it's fricking garbage.
>rust.jpg
> visit a board where we have been arguing with each other about non-vidya related topics longer than you have been alive
> "wtf bro? Why aren't you talking about video games? I thought this was a video game discussion board fr fr?"
The culture is sacred. Lurk b4 posting.
>where we have been arguing with each other about non-vidya related topics longer than you have been alive
it's always funny how you morons think that means literally anything to anyone except yourselves
Not our fault that newbies get frustrated and confused on the daily by the fact that we never stick to the topic of this board.
It's funny how millenials were worried about Gen z and aplhas coming into the work place, but now zoomers and aplhies have disqualified themselves. Millenials are the neo-boomers
It'd take like 5 minutes to explain it to them, it's not complicated. It's obviously something that's not relevant to their needs to know.
> needs to know.
Hello government agent.
>whole thread is literally just a "I'm a 90's kid and you're not!" discussion that's straight out of 2013 except somehow even MORE obnoxious
Yeah and this is why indians are flooding the market while western zoomers stagnate and have no idea how to navigate fricking windows. The future is gonna be rough.
On a side note, are americans as moronic as internet people make it out to be? Like do you guys literally know nothing about geography? Do you really belive you have won the war against vietnam?
Is the average american either a redneck racist trump supporter or a twitter parrot that can only talk about racism feminism and such?
I'm legit curious because whenever we watch americans IRL on youtube or something that's what we get.
>is the internet making sweeping generalizations about groups of people to make them easier to demonize?
that's a real head-scratcher
I also have been to america albeit for 2 weeks only and it's kinda insane how people there act like frickin gta characters or something.
But then again i don't know if this is the entirety of america or just florida.
>florida
lol I knew which state you were talking about before I finished reading
>Like do you guys literally know nothing about geography?
plenty do
>do you really believe won the war against vietnam
It's a funny topic honestly. The federal government doesn't want to just come out and say "yes we lost a war on the other side of the planet that we helped start". I'd imagine most Americans who you asked that weren't educated on the topic would answer that yes we won the war but wouldn't be able to explain how. For obvious reasons.
File systems are easy, back in my day we had DOS games that you had to reboot Windows into DOS mode just to play, and know how to change directories with text input just to get to the games .exe
>Why is Gen Z so technologically incompetent?
Millenials and Gen X are largely computer illiterate. They couldn't teach their kids even if they wanted to.
Technology has leap forward in terms of user friendliness, yet usefulness has not kept up. Every tech bro offers a solution to a problem no one had, and never a solution to basic stuff required to be computer literate. Walled Gardens like Facebook or reddit ensure nobody ever needs to leave their comfort zone.
It's the world we made, and the one we deserve. And I can't wait for the crash.
Many have never used a PC, or at least have not used one enough to learn anything.
Millennials had to frick around with Windows 98 at the very least. Many of us had to learn the basics of MS-DOS/etc. just to play a game.
I remember typing out directories was a pain in the dick
All things considering though I'm glad I learned how to pirate ARMA 2 back in like 2011 to play DayZ on my shitty Windows 7 laptop.
I dont believe this applies to all zoomers. There are people my age who dont know their computer can used wired ethernet cables to recieve internet. There are juat tech illiterate people every generation since not all jobs require it that strongly.
They don't understand how a real one works too.
>all the boomers watch tv commercials and propaganda
>all the zoomers watch smart phone brain rot content
>i watch funny video game reviews on israelitetube
surely i picked the long straw
I don't know why but I feel that whoever “remastered” this image must have been born after 2008
You'd think since computer technicians are in such short supply the pay would be better, but they just pay you to do 4 technicians worth of work and make you want to have a nice day. I'm still annoyed that my last suicide attempt failed. I'm buying a shotgun next time I try.
buy a grenade and hold it up under your chin
Because they were spoon fed everything. We had to learn so we did but this generation´s been given one click solutions so they don´t bother (even though knowledge is literally a few clicks away). Human beings are lazy, if there is a shortcut most people will take it. Can you imagine the damage AI is going to do to a generation that´s already that incompetent?
I´m calling it now, once everyone´s dependent on AI and have forgotten how to anything by themselves they are just going to limit or block access to internet and that will be it. Back to the stone ages.
I'm an education major and AI is something we talk about a lot. Part of it is "how can we use this to make our jobs easier?" and the other part is "how do we design assignments in such a way that students can't use AI to cheat?" shit's fricked. I've talked to older teachers who have thrown in the towel completely and stopped assigning any of kind writing that isn't done in class with pencil and paper because it's the only way to keep them from using it.
Just replace AI with the internet in general. 90% of the people in this thread right now would be useless without it
They were never forced to learn how to do many basic tech things like how we taught ourselves and learned from one another in the Wild West of the early 2000s. Ironic, considering the unbelievable volume of instantaneous information on the modern Internet compared to how long it took just to download a 1MB photo through AIM on 56k and early cable/DSL. Having said that, I guess choice paralysis might be real, where there's just so fricking much shit constantly bombarding them to keep up with. Constant FOMO shit around every corner that they just can't bother when everything is done for them Times were much simpler.
We warned you fricks about letting crapple get a hold on you through their garbage ecosystem and you didn't listen is why, fricktard.
the bigger problem is the amount of people who have no desire to even try and learn how anything they use works, but are still trying to get tech sector jobs because they heard some tiktok influencer tell them it's an easy 6 figure salary, no degree required, usually trying to sell some course on front end webdev.
Obviously a smartphone zoomzoom who has never heard of the C drive will need further instruction if you sit them down at the first computer they've ever seen and tell them "now go to C:Program Files (x86)".
But is the concept of folders not sufficiently intuitive that they can understand it after being told it exists? I mean, surely they have seen paper, and literal folders. Surely they have — at some point in their short, miserable, broccoli-headed lives — organized a collection of things into multiple separate containers, perhaps even smaller compartments within larger containers. Given the direct analogy to physical things, it seems like something which needs to be explained once.
Every smart phone has folders, it’s just that millennials have low self esteem and shit their pants the instant someone doesn’t know something then writes an article about it before AI takes all their jobs. Seriously there’s like what could be hundreds upon hundreds of articles now about millennials b***hing about gen z and then using some nonsense study as the crux of it, like “why doesn’t gen z use Q-tips anymore”
That has literally nothing to do with what I said, but ok
They know how folders work, they just ask how it works on this specific system and millennial blow a gasket when asked and just write articles on it that Ganker parrots here. Concept is the same, UI is different.
Didn't these lil homies grow up with H*mestuck? That shit was all about filing systems.
The only gen Z person in my family is my Niece who was born in the year 2000. She understands file structures just fine even on windows even though she pretty much grew up on Macbooks. She has a million times better organization skills then I do. She has everything in neat folders and the stuff in those folders is all alphabetized or if its recepts organized by date. Me I just throw my documents into a folder marked by year that is if ever even leaves my download folder. I think its just a matter of habits rather then comprehension.
Back in the day, I use to just open up kazaa, or limewire, or sometimes napster and just download games through the P2P networks. It could not have been any easier. I know Napster use to get a lot of heat for making it easy to pirate MP3's. But you could do a lot more than that, like download full software and software cracks. Or videos.
There are just as many millenials and gen x'ers who behave like this
fake and gay doomer clickbait
>t. PM and Tech Support for 20 years
>MS and Apple do their very best to obfuscate the file system, Android might just be a bucket
>wtf, how did people who didn't experience the previous iteration of these systems don't know how they work?
My six-year old and nine-year old children understand file systems. Hell, I have PolyMC setup on our PCs, and my nine-year old knows how to download and add mods to instances of Minecraft. You have to teach them that shit yourself, because they're not learning anything from using locked down Chromebooks and tablets.
It's not a new thing.
I remember when Sims 3 was released and the megaupload files containing the game were posted everywhere on Ganker.
So many questions from anons about how to do it, do they need all the parts, what to do when you had all 22 .rar files, etc.
That's not really the same thing. Someone not knowing how to use multipart .rar is understandable as it's not the only unzipping program.
i do wish someone would make some new charts about the computer literacy by age to see how much smartphones overtaking computers has changed things.
The majority of people were always tech-illiterate.
Smartphones are partly to blame for this. Imagine telling someone that only used apps to navigate to a folder created by said apps and replace a few files.
All of my friends at college understand. I think the wealth gap between well educated and poorly educated people is just going to be massive.
>you are special and smart
>young people are stupid
>thank you for the ad revenue
>are millenials killing credit
>how millenials killed the focus groups
>how hipster millenials are killing big mac
>millenials are killing chains like buffalo wild wings and applebees
>why are millenials killing their bosses
>millenials are killing macdonalds
>millenials are killing the movie business
>millenials are killing the oil industry
>millenials turning away from cruises and casinos
If only this would be true, we would have so much shit got removed.
The same reason you don't know how to fly an airplane. If you're never taught something you'll never learn it.
>If you're never taught something you'll never learn it.
I was never taught how to swim but I can swim just fine.
I had to teach my sister how to make folders and how to keep things organized for college.