Poll of the Day > When you realize you're no longer young.

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doshindude posted...

Gen Z is actively forgetting how to use actual desktop computers so you'd be surprised just how fast time moves.

This was predicted a few years ago when a college professor wrote an article about how his students did not know what files and folders were.

Judgmenl posted...

This was predicted a few years ago when a college professor wrote an article about how his students did not know what files and folders were.

How is the generation that grew up completely with the internet so technologically illiterate? In a few generations no one will understand the technology they use and it will go into disrepair and lost, like Roman concrete or aqueducts

Muscles posted...

How is the generation that grew up completely with the internet so technologically illiterate? In a few generations no one will understand the technology they use and it will go into disrepair and lost, like Roman concrete or aqueducts

Phones. They use phones.

captpackrat posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/8/5/AAQwHjAAEPh5.png

2037 is the guest on the list I remember

Muscles posted...

How is the generation that grew up completely with the internet so technologically illiterate? In a few generations no one will understand the technology they use and it will go into disrepair and lost, like Roman concrete or aqueducts

My anecdotal observations are chronic use of phones as their primary/only computing device effectively erased their ability to learn desktop computing except when utterly necessary. The rest of us think it's hilariously stupid but that's what has happened.

I take it as a profit opportunity: If you're old enough to know how to use a real computer, you're going to be rolling in it doing tech support for these poor saps who can't figure it out.

doshindude posted...

My anecdotal observations are chronic use of phones as their primary/only computing device effectively erased their ability to learn desktop computing except when utterly necessary. The rest of us think it's hilariously stupid but that's what has happened.

I take it as a profit opportunity: If you're old enough to know how to use a real computer, you're going to be rolling in it doing tech support for these poor saps who can't figure it out.

Its just like... they have youtube/Google to explain anything they need, is it so hard to look it up? They can't even do that?

Grey hairs....my first at 29. I guess the darker your hair is the more they show up? I have a friend who started to go grey at 18.

Muscles posted...

Its just like... they have youtube/Google to explain anything they need, is it so hard to look it up? They can't even do that?

The boomers don't do it. Gen Z ain't going to either.

doshindude posted...

The boomers don't do it. Gen Z ain't going to either.

The boomers spent most of their lives, including their formative years, without Google, that's different than the generation that literally grew up using Google

You are no longer young when you can no longer remember what it was like to be young.

I can't remember when I started not remembering what it was like to be young, which I guess makes me not just no longer young, but also old.

According to AARP, I need to stop shoveling my driveway in 5 years and hire someone to do it:

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2022/snow-shovel-heart-attack.html

Franklin advises anyone age 45 or older not to tackle shoveling. He says the recommendation stems from a landmark study that indicates about 85 percent of U.S. adults age 50-plus already have underlying coronary artery disease.

Ignoring the fact that my grandfather didn't stop until he was in his 90's, and my 69 year old father who had quadruple bypass last year still does it.

Muscles posted...

How is the generation that grew up completely with the internet so technologically illiterate? In a few generations no one will understand the technology they use and it will go into disrepair and lost, like Roman concrete or aqueducts

Because while you grew up during the transition period of learning a new computer every year, to everything being fairly homogenized. Kids growing up now are growing up with this technology fully established and working. They don't really need to know what a file is, they just pull from "somewhere" on their phone.

It always happens. Once the technology is established and ubiquitous, there isn't as much of a reason to need to know how to do what came before it. We had to mess with floppy disks, they fully stopped even being a thing that exists. It's a dead form of media that we know about and grew up with that serves exactly 0 function or purpose now. So why teach kids about it?

chelle posted...

It always happens. Once the technology is established and ubiquitous, there isn't as much of a reason to need to know how to do what came before it.

It's like how car culture was a huge thing and most young people growing up knew how to work on a car. Now most people can't even change their own oil.

Even years ago the average person could use a computer, but most people didn't really know how to do anything with the hardware. That was limited more to people who started using computers when you needed to be able to build them yourself, or later the more hardcore gamers and tech-heads who wanted the extra degree of control. But every year that passes it becomes more and more of a lost skill except for specialists.

Of course, you can even go back farther than that. How many people today know how to hunt, gather, or farm to keep themselves alive without a grocery store? Skills that were literally basic-level and required to simply stay alive are now mostly obsolete and pointless for the average person. Most of us can't build houses, carve furniture, craft tools, or even start a fire. We're helpless little bags of meat, and we'd be fucked if we lost most of our existing infrastructure.



Dikitain posted...

According to AARP, I need to stop shoveling my driveway in 5 years and hire someone to do it

According to AARP I should have stopped shoveling my driveway a year ago.

As for hiring someone else to do it, the problem with "Id say youre probably better off to hire a neighborhood kid to do your driveway" is that it implies kids today actually want to do anything resembling work. Fuckers are lazy.

The era of the kid who grifts and mows lawns to make extra money died decades ago. Now you're mostly stuck just overpaying a professional service for maintenance, which is why so many people just say "screw it" and do it themselves regardless.



Dikitain posted...

Ignoring the fact that my grandfather didn't stop until he was in his 90's, and my 69 year old father who had quadruple bypass last year still does it.

Well it does say even in that article that age alone isn't the only consideration, and that it's more a case that older people tend to be more out of shape, and thus the bursts of occasional intense activity in a mostly sedentary life are what dramatically increase your odds of heart attack.

There's also the fact that "increased risk" doesn't mean "automatically going to happen". So even someone older could be completely fine shoveling their driveway for years, right up until they suddenly aren't.

But yeah, if you stay in relatively good shape or remain active or otherwise just minimize the basic risks of heart disease you'd probably be fine shoveling all you want. I mean, there are dudes in their 60s who go rock climbing and running marathons and stuff who are in better cardio shape than I was at 40 - they're probably good.

Dikitain posted...

According to AARP, I need to stop shoveling my driveway in 5 years and hire someone to do it:

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2022/snow-shovel-heart-attack.html

Ignoring the fact that my grandfather didn't stop until he was in his 90's, and my 69 year old father who had quadruple bypass last year still does it.

Last major snow storm:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/5/5/AAQwHjAAEQcz.jpg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/6/AAQwHjAAEQ2I.jpg

When you ache and bones pop for no reason LOL