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At this point I’m happy to let someone else do it. Being everybody's tech support sucks. I can just tinker with and enjoy my own setups in peace.

Fine with me. Leave us the hell alone.

Gen X is the Aslan lion meme: “Do not cite the deep computer repair magic to me, Millennial. I was there when it was written.”

That’s cool. We’re used to being forgotten and this way nobody will ask us to fix their computer.

As one of those Gen-X that actually helped create the dumpster fire we call the modern Internet, I have come to realize that we fall into two camps. You either look young enough to be classified as a Millennial (my wife) or you look old enough to immediately be thrown in the Boomer bucket (me)...which is really unfair because no other generation has hated and fought the fucking Boomers longer than us.

I'd love to show some GenZ photos of Matt Damon, Bem Affleck, Cillian Murphy, etc. and ask them what generation they think they are.

By that logic, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak were Boomers so Boomers all know how to fix computers.

Let's face it, "generational" assumptions are all too coarse to be valuable - and are probably just another way to separate and divide us all so we stop thinking about how to take down the ruling classes.

Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.

Tldr; you got your feelings hurt over a meme

The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.

You do realize Gen X were the ones who were building their own computers back in the late 80's and all through the 90s and loading them with Windows 3.1 and the original flavors of Linux, on top of fostering the open source world everyone here relies upon? All before Millennials graduated from Jr High.

The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.