• Lostinthecroll@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I guess I’m one of the fractions of a fraction. I remember back in the late 90s when that catastrophe of an OS called Windows ME was plaguing our society. Having to manually change registry keys just to make the damn thing recognize a sound card.

    It makes me sound old but, kids these days have no idea the kind of hell we went through. If/when I have kids I’m going to start them off with DOS 6 and gradually move them up to current OSes. They need to know the pain we went through.

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      t makes me sound old but, kids these days have no idea the kind of hell we went through

      I mean, whose motherboard still needs a sound card in this day and age? But then I could tell you about fiddling with the settings of an old dot matrix printer. I don’t think that qualifies me to set up a Kubernetes cluster or administer a data lake.

      The “you kids today” rants seen to miss how hyper specialized computer hardware and software has become. No, Gen A is going to magically intuit an Azure DevOps Pipeline from first principles. Setting that up feels like I’m working through a Master’s Thesis on arcane file types. People need to stop pretending that knowing a bit of Regex from middle school entitled them to talk shit to a guy ten years their junior struggling with a customized .yaml file.

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      In sorry but this really sounds like boomer-esque mindset

      Why should the younger generation have to go through the struggles of the older generation when those struggles are not relevant today

      I’m gen z myself and I’ve changed Windows registry settings to disable stuff like caudiolimiter and change a few other things but I only learned to do that out of necessity

      Things should not be forced on people unless they want to learn them, people will only learn things they are interested in

      Force them to learn something and they won’t bother actually learning it because they aren’t interested and it won’t stick

      This mindset is the same thing as passing down generational trauma to a a younger generation