sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn’t say anything about them not being allowed, but I don’t see anybody posting any 🤷‍♀️

  • Saapas@piefed.zip
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    It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.

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      There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.

      Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren’t able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.

      Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.

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      16 hours ago

      most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses

      also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled… in highschool

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        Funny, I remember being in middle school and getting detention for playing a RS private server called hackscape, clearly I was intending to hack the school.

        Meanwhile I found the network drive and constantly deleted a bullys progress in our keyboarding course lmao, they never figured that one out.