• AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    i figured gen z would start fixing my computer once i hit my current age (41); turns out i dont know any gen z’s that understand how computers work.

    im really tired of being everyone’s tech support :(

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      1 hour ago

      I am gen z and just writing my bachelor’s thesis for computer science/Cybersecurity. Many of my peers are in CS too.

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      7 hours ago

      I am Gen Z, I can copy paste commands from online forums into the terminal, then proceed to fuck shit up. 🫠

      (Don’t ask me to type commands from memory, I’d rather use windows spyware than deal with command line torture)

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        5 hours ago

        You just have to practice more! Though while I’m pretty good with computers Linux does still scare me a little too, I have a habit of poking around where I’m not supposed to and Linux is more than happy to let you break things

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        12 hours ago

        i did the world a favor and decided to not have kids. sadly, this also means i am unable to hand down a generation’s worth of computer knowledge, heh.

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        12 hours ago

        Depending on definitions, I’m either a millennial or gen-z. Some of my team mates are awesome and know everything there is to know about computers. Others have knowledge gaps that make me question whether they went to uni. They’re also the same people who commonly don’t know how to find answers to things. They’re also the people proclaiming the loudest about the greatness of Gippers

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            49 minutes ago

            Kind of a fond/humanised name for chat gpt me and some colleagues use. We’ve dubbed it our idiot friend, ‘Gippers’. Its commonly wrong and there’s a group of colleagues who trusts it and a group who doesn’t. I think we anthropomorphised the machine a little, and also its maybe a little cringey.

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      13 hours ago

      It’s funny how bubbles can change so much. In my personal experience, most Gen Z people know their way around computers and how to fix stuff. I regularly help my millennial sister with stuff like that.

      • Auli@lemmy.ca
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        10 hours ago

        No generally Gen z is not afraid of tech but doesn’t know how it works.