source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
Not true
Millennials think it’s them , because they learned how. Gen X knows, because they wrote it.
Adding to this. HMI’s change across time and what feels logical/intuitive/common sense to one demographic, might not to another.
How did we fail so hard? Where did we go wrong?
You’re old
Converting a PDF to Excel repeatedly on Adobe by clearing the browsing history each time, saves you hundreds a year.
We grew up in an analog childhood, but digital adulthood.
We’ve been at the cusp of all the changes, we probably had to boot into Ms DOS and navigate to the A:// drive to play whatever was on the floppy disk with a whopping 1.44mb.
Now you download almost instantly to your phone/tablet. The internet as we knew it is mostly dead, everywhere is a walled garden of shit.
A:\
Guys I found the zoom zoom infiltrator
It’s been a while ok? 😀
There should be a class where they force you to install arch Linux without the automated install script and force people to learn how an OS works, or even make them do a Gentoo installation. You only pass it if you get to a fully functioning PC with a web browser and desktop environment
Why stop at Arch? I had to write my own kernel in college let’s make everyone do that.
Yes, I’m posting this to point out the silliness of your idea.
The more I think about it PDFs are our fax machine and that shit just needs to go away.
So, the key takeaway is everyone has a different experience, and that is okay.
The number of people in this thread stumped by the “rotate a PDF” comment, even what it means at all, while a smartphone has been 95-100% of their “computer” usage in their lives.
I was born in the 80’s, I did IT bachelor’s and then print design studies which used all of the Adobe suite and I genuinely don’t understand what rotating a pdf means.
My first OS was DOS.
Edit my point is I’m sure I know how to, I just don’t know what it means
As a developer and avid Linux enjoyer, I myself don’t know why the printer won’t connect.
As a cyber security engineer, it’s because it hates you. It also hates me. The printer knows nothing but rage.
Because they designed it not to. Printer manufacturers were way ahead of the curve on enshittification.
this is less a problem of ‘people are stupid’ and more ‘educational institutions have been dismantled over the last several decades and large numbers of people are pushed through school despite being functionally illiterate, if they graduate at all’
No it’s just that Zoomers only use touchscreen, which are vastly simplified devices compared to a desktop computer
Personally I’d blame parents more than the schools, especially in America. Parent involvement is nearing all-time lows and it seems a lot of them are expecting all learning to be done outside the home. I learned more about computers from my dad than any class or teacher.
It’s not just dismantling of education. It’s the corporate creep into the education system from companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple. They want people get locked into their systems. So they start them young. Instead of learning basic os agnostic computer skills, kids at school are locked into cloud dependent apps.
I think if they were using windows they’d be far more computer literate, but they’re just using iPad and chromebooks
The companies started it in the 1980s.
The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
Hey, I was never taught how to rotate a PDF.
I just looked for the button in the viewer.
Sometimes, I just rotate the screen instead.
Good. We don’t need to learn any of this shit. You can do it ourselves and facilitate the tools for us users
And they’re almost as conservative as boomers too. Fucking shame.
I would be happy to never see a PDF again, can we not have something better?
I always think it’s like complaining that nobody under a certain age can use the card catalog, microfiche or whatever. Technology changes. I have so many leftover now useless skills; please God may the ones related to Adobe rot on that same pile soon.
You’ve got SVG.
But the main +ive point of a PDF is that it is a pain to work with.
What’s wrong with pdf?
I am what you would call a boomer. But I do not only know how to rotate a PDF, I also know how to generate one from a number of sources with software I have written…
You’re a computer boomer, basically don’t count. A lot of millennials, with no relation to tech, can use the computer at least for basic stuff. That can’t be said about any other generation.
