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[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

You don't need to be in IT, you just need boomer parents.

[-] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Fun thing is,.. the cycle repeats.

~20% of Boomers had good working knowledge of the technologies of their age, similar to today.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Ill never lose touch with tech. Except fucking ticktock. Or temu. Or that other one.

[-] Uglyhead@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I’ve had people close to me say the same thing.

A person who knew thoroughly how to install software and get computers up and running in the 80’s and 90’s, now had no interest at all in learning how to use a cellphone. Cognitive decline/brain shrink inevitably started happening at age 40 or so and it made it more and more difficult to understand the new tech.

Similar thing happens with music, and keeping up to date with new artists and so forth. As you get older I guess you just start to not give a shit as much at all about the newfangled jibjabs and doohickeys.

Meme incoming (oh I found the clip!) —-> https://youtu.be/BGrfhsxxmdE?si=A76DPdg4z4ZMxQL7

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If the day comes that you have deal with your personal matters or bank business through those services, I'll put a bullet through my brain.

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Idk. I'm not in IT, but I've always seemed to have a tendency to try to troubleshoot tech problems.

I help out my coworkers, parents, and even my younger sibling on occasion (he's in his early 20s). If it's solely an age thing, then you'd think I wouldn't be doing it with those similar to my own age or younger than me.

At work I even figured out why our headsets (vital to our job) would intermittently fail and stop working, absolutely destroying our workflow. Our IT department couldn't manage to figure it out. But I eventually found that it intermittently conflicted with a program on the computer (Microsoft Teams).

I'm absolutely no genius and my knowledge is probably rather minimal. But I think it's a difference in attitude and affinity for the stuff.

[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah no. Most of em just decided they don't have to learn anything anymore and have this learned helplessness with technology. I have seen 70 year olds trouble shoot a computer like champions but a dude in his 50's just "isn't good with computers" and can't change the font size in word without his hand held

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I see it as a fair deal. They paid my absurdly high phone bill as I fell for dial up scammers in my youth while experimenting with fresh new internet, and so I abandon all hope of lazy free time and help them with their unresponding printer now.

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