• Guidy@lemmy.world
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    5 天前

    lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.

    I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.

    My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.

    tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.

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      They aren’t saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.

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        Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective,

        The problem is their dates are off. Home Computers went mainstream in 1977 with the Apple II.

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      I’m a xennial or whatever you wanna call us and I can’t stand the generational cold war that takes place in our society

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      5 天前

      Actually agree.

      By age I would be late gen-Z / almost gen-A. I grew up in rural middle-east and was introduced to home internet for first time in highschool(2020)

      Where would I fall?

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        First introduction to Internet in late highschool or College means you’re a gen X.

        You can keep still, or whatever, but frankly it doesn’t matter. You don’t matter. Your parents (Boomer’s) mortgaged your generations, and everyone since, future for a pointless capitalist nightmare.