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I've definitely turned into the paranoid nutcase within my friend group in recent years, I hate that everything is "smart" nowadays requiring an app/internet connection & account, just to do basic things that didn't require any of that before.

What's some things currently making you ramble like an old man?

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[โ€“] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lack of computer literacy. When I was in school, we had computer classes that taught us how to use Word, Excel, even Photoshop and Illustrator, etc. And also things like proper netiquette. It seems like students nowadays are just expected to have computer literacy, and it's either not being taught anymore or is being taught in a severely diminished way. I'm extremely concerned by the number of younger students who don't know how to use Excel (or, frankly, anything that's not a social media website/app). Likewise, I believe the fact that young people are no longer taught to be wary of privacy on the internet (and are in fact encouraged to share their personal lives on the internet) is an oversight in education that will harm these people, as well as society, in the future

Friends of mine had IT classes but with a 60+ teacher, that told them that lcd screens are the new hot shit. I don't know what's worse, nothing or such outdated information in this rapidly changing environment.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Computers are dying out in the home. Phones and tablets replaced them.

PCs are the big clunky tablets that don't have Swype typing, and you have to use a mouse instead of just pressing what you want.

The age of computer literacy came and went. Give it another 10 years and kids great-grandparents will be teaching them to double click.