Zoomers are not, in fact, way faster with phones than I'll ever be. I clumsily use my swipe keyboard faster than they type (and they look at it like it's black magic even though I've been using that shit for 10 years now).

Also I know what a file system is. Have you tried to get a non-tech oriented zoomer who's been using phones and tablets all their life to wrap their head around that concept ? Yet my boomer mom can use it competently, and she's quite bad with tech.

The younger generation does some things better and more instinctively, true, but just like I never became a genius at electronics by only using them at a surface level all my life, and way more than my elders (and despite having some interest in it), the fact that they've been spoon fed tech doesn't automatically turn them into technological übermensch or some shit.

[–] BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.world -3 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Also I know what a file system is.

whoa

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm not pretending that is some amazing achievement though ? Imo that is a basic requirement if you're gonna use a computer

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

most zoomers just use phones and tablets, and mayyyybe a laptop for school. they're using closed systems and never have to look at the files or anything. older zoomers may have experience if they gamed, especially things like early modded minecraft, but younger zoomers and gen alpha only use systems that do all the work for them

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

Exactly. I know some brilliant zoomers who are absolutely helpless with that kind of stuff. And I know some who are huge computer nerds and are just as good if not better than me with them (and I'm a professional programmer) but that's definitely not the general trend.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Chromebooks are being used increasingly commonly.

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