• inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Computer literacy is weird because it feels like millennials were born into it and had to learn how to use the tools available… Then said tools were made a lot simpler with a lot less control over them, and Gen Z was born into apps and saas and did not have the chance to properly learn

    We generally only taught a single generation to master our tech, I think it’s scary, but also I trust the Zoomers to figure it out, they’re creative

      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        7 months ago

        To be fair, the overwhelming majority of people regardless of age don’t know what LaTeX or markdown are. Not the best examples. I’m a millennial with a 4 year STEM degree and I maybe used LaTeX once because it was required, and before Discord became a thing, I’d never heard of markdown. Most people who use Discord probably don’t even know it supports markdown.

  • sunglocto@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Gen-z here - I know how to torrent lol. It’s insane how tech illiterate a lot of my friends are, even in my IT classes don’t know what HTTPS is or what an ethernet cable is so… yeah

    Feels weird being known as “the guy who’s an expert at computers” despite being a noob

    • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      bro you’re on lemmy, you’re already outside of the curve for most gen-z