• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    To my fellow Gen X’ers…

    Shhh!

    Let someone else deal with the inept on the other end of the phone. Be happy we’re being ignored again.

  • hedders@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    Gen X - who, let’s face it, wrote most of this stuff - gets forgotten again.

    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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      10 months ago

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

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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        10 months ago

        My dad is close to 80. He’s been PC savvy since the super early 1980s and he still is, although he is stuck in Windows because he’s a monster in the astrophotography world and most of his software isn’t supported in Linux etc. I dated a girl in college whose dad was one of the founding creators of the internet. Unlike Al Gore lol.

        I taught my younger brother how to program in basic and pascal in the 80s. He’s now a super successful programmer. I’m pretty poor but I like to build fix and upgrade people’s computers as a hobby. I am gen x.

    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      Eh. Genx understood how to work a VCR and deal with the rat’s nest of cables behind the TV

      Computers are millennials

      • robolemmy@lemmy.world
        English
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        10 months ago

        Utter BS. I’m on the old end of Gen X and I’m still building PCs for people and troubleshooting their shit when it breaks. I have yet to meet a much younger person who can do it as well.

  • AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world
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    10 months 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 :(

      • AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world
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        10 months 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.

  • moseschrute@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Let’s settle this once and for all.

    I’m Gen Z. Quiz me on how computers work.

    Edit: I bet I can run circles around some of you millennials :)

      • moseschrute@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago
        • The lowest level is transistors, which are electronic switches that have an on and off state. In other words, they are binary and can represent 0 and 1
        • Those get combined into gates of two inputs. An “and” gate outputs 1 if both its inputs are 1. An “or” gate outputs 1 if either of its inputs are 1. And Xor gate outputs 1 if and only if one of its inputs is 1.
        • A bunch of other complicated shit happens
        • Boom assembly. Don’t try and read or write it, because it will make you wanna quit computers
        • C comes into play. Designed to unfuck, assembly so you can actually write readable code. Just don’t forget to release your memory
        • More complicated shit. Something about kernels and GNU. Userland vs kernel land? Idk
          • ARM might be different since it can run process outside of userland and kernel I think? Something about secure compute/marketing BS
        • Inside of user land, we have the web browser. This is there the cool shit happens.
        • The browser runs JavaScript, CSS and HTML. JavaScript is a single threaded, but nonblocking language with an even loop and microtask queue.
        • Inside of the browser we run React. React is a framework where UI is a function of state and the data flows in one direction. It can also be used to slam your CPU.
        • Now that we’re into high level languages, it would only be fun if it looped back around to the beginning. So we invoke some C code that has been compiled to web assembly. Mmmm how efficient

        Edit: I tried to do this all off the top of my head. After writing this, I think I meant user space vs kernel space. Idk if user land is a word