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[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I did read the study before responding. You are talking about the abilities for computer use for age ranges. The study talks about the range between 16 and 65 years old, yet does not segregate into shorter age ranges, it generalizes in that broad range. However, you do mention smaller age ranges, and I countered that, in my experience, your assessment is inaccurate.

I said we live in different realities because:

  1. You never mentioned a specific country
  2. My experience iscludes a very broad group of countries (albeit not the 100+ the OECD covers)

I'll go even further. My kids (9 and 11 years old) are better trained to use anything thrown at them regardless of UX, because I take the time to take them through logic and common sense exercises with different systems regularly, which is way more than can be said about the upcoming generation. Kids today are being taught to "do this always" for any step instead of pushing them to figure out how to work out stuff. This creates a train of thought that's detrimental to them because their brains will get use to "this is how it's done", effectively blocking the "and what happens if I do this instead?". Does that make sense?

However, people from my generation, who started becoming adults when computers (regardless of OS or brand/manufacturer) were just becoming mainstream in households and workplaces, we had to adapt to how things worked as they evolved with little to no help. This is what allowed us to still be able to keep up with anything that shows up new, all the evolution of software and hardware over the years, and the new technologies.

I am all too aware that there are some seriously skilled and smart younger individuals out there. These are curious and risk-taking people that are always hungry for knowledge. I know quite a few people like this, but this, unfortunately, is not the norm, again in my experience. Similarly, there's a bunch of people from my generation that just learned the basics to be able to go about their day, and never learned how to change a freaking DNS address in their device.

Having said that, my response to your original comment remains, based on my first hand experience on how skills across age ranges differ in a generalized context over many different countries and cultures.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

What, in 2024, makes you think anyone's environment is relegated to any one country? But if you must know, it's a large part of the US, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia, Pakistan, Egypt, Mozambique, and about 15 other countries. There are some very technically skilled folks between 25 - 35 years old, but the percentage of that group pales in comparison.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wao, it's not often we get to see someone posting a comment so full of shit while making sure to obscure many facts to see if it sticks.

"Can we be honest"? Apparently you cannot.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 weeks ago

This is great news.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

We must live in entirely different realities then. I'm 50, and I find myself being the goto guy for anything tech for anyone between 15 and 40 in my environment. It just so happens that most tech savvy people in my environment are between 45 and 65 years old.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

Hanna Montana, and you're good to go.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah? 1. You're pulling crap out of your ass. Nobody said it's a person, it's a bunch of picks running a company, we all know that. 2. They deserve to get fucked sideways with this and more for bullying people drowning them in legal action with their infinite money glitch, only because "why not?".

So, without a pinch of respect for them, you or anyone that defends their asshole behavior, fuck off.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Actually, sorry, but it does. Covering your investment is one thing, being an asshole because you can is an entirely different thing. Nintendo has made it their goal to show the world they are all about the latter one.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 65 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm a gamer, therfore I know what I'm talking about. Denuvo is SHIT!

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

You're fucked.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Are you serious? "Assuming" is the streamline? DAMN!

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My boss told me to get a laptop and I'd be reimbursed, so I got a System76 with Fedora. "How are you going to use (company proprietary software that only works on Windows)?" I told him I could run it on wine (and I have). But he ended up assigning me a Windows 365 cloud, so now I have a very nice laptop that just works, and I only fire up the cloud crap if I really need to.

Suffice it to say that I'm the only upper management member that barely interacts with the IT department, I don't need to 🤣🤣

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