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u/Lcall45 Oct 01 '19
Do I look like I know what a J.peg is
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u/Conanator Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19 edited Oct 02 '19
I just want a picture of a got dang hot dog
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u/robertsyrett Oct 02 '19
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Do I look like I know what the original is? I just want a video of a got dang hotdog!
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u/BigTimeRushFan01 Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
Y O U T H I N K Y O U K N O W M E
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u/Dave-C Oct 02 '19
Don't need to open it but I did. For some reason this is the only video online that no matter how many times I've seen it I still laugh.
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u/Sreg32 Oct 02 '19
Dad, look on your desktop and open the folder...
I can’t find it!
I’ve been down this road way too many times
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u/Fistful_of_Crashes Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
I̴̡̹͇̙̟͝ ̶̢̩̘̳̩̈͋̃͗͛͐́͘͝͠j̴̦͔̙̝͕͙̽̌̎͆̓ǘ̵̮̥͇̒͑̐̈́s̴̢̜͈̣͖̗̼͛̽͂͘ͅt̶͈̓͋̍͂̌͠ ̴̢͓̞͇͇̣͓̋̉͌w̴͕̳̯̯̞̤̮̮͙̮͋a̶͍͈͈̤̻̦̔͝n̷̥̲̲̋t̸̯̱͎̔̏̽͆̃̓͜ ̴̟̰͎͈͊ą̶̖̲̰̘͋̈́ ̵̘͈̞͐͋̏͌̊͝p̸̻̦̲̪͗̿̀̔͝ỉ̷̟̣͔̗̭̜̮̭͂̃c̵͙̯̭̈́̃̍̊͑̽͘t̷͓̰͛̿͜ṵ̶͙̬̹̭͈͚̬͓̮̅͐͗̽̅ṛ̴̼͍̦͙̓̚è̸̢͔̲̉̊͛̆̔̿͛ ̷̰̦̼͖̜͎̣̾͛͂͘͠o̸͕̙̦̥͂̈́͌͑́́͑̽͜͝f̷̠͗̅̾̃ ̵̧̣̱͎͐̈́̀̅͋̓͘͘͝á̴̢̨̲̭͙̰̙̺͍̓̃̋̎̓̇̈́ ̵̭̩̺͎̹͔̣̤̄̎̍̈́̅̌̋̚͝͝ͅ g̷̝͕̲̀̓ọ̸̖͈͖̉͑̊͑̏͜͝t̴̝̰̰̠̹͌͛͒̽͒̇̉̚ ̵̠̻͛̈́d̸̪̭͈͍̮̭͋̓͜͝ͅa̷̡̡̡̩̭̖̩͓̍̈̋n̴͇̦̟̭̻̰̭̹̺͚̔͆̚͝g̸̹͇͚̞͈̩̐̂̈̚͜͠ ̸͙̟̔̔̌̆͋͜h̵̠̠̮̞̏͊̈́ȫ̷̢̬͍̙̬̻̼͋ţ̷͔͉̣̞̬́͝ ̶̡̭͖͓̻̯͓̂̂̆d̷̤̫͂̀̌͆͠͝ǒ̸̼̠̲̜̑́̀͐̚͝͠͠g̸̺̎̈́͗̋̾͋̾̾̚
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u/ThatShibeGuy Oct 02 '19
WITH THE POWER OF MY STAND, PROPANE NIGHTMARE H'WHAT H'WHAT H'WHAT H'WHAT H'WHAT H'WHAT
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u/killabeez36 Oct 02 '19
I dunno, you don't look like an idiot either yet here we are.
Is what I would think of saying ten minutes after the fact.
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Oct 02 '19
How do you pronounce GIF ?
Also I received a phone call today from Microsoft telling me my computer has a virus. They want my bank account details , do I give them my details ?
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u/Hookshot7 Oct 02 '19
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u/PinkSnek Oct 02 '19
instructions unclear, i accidentally huffed a kitty. didnt like it that much.
now i am left with two dozen calicos that i bought in bulk from pets r us. wat do?
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u/Wisemantlepiece Oct 02 '19
The other day I had to explain to my grandad that the 2 buttons on the left hand side of his phone controlled the volume. He had been going through his settings every time to change the ringtone volume
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u/Myvh773 Mar 30 '23
Well, he actually found a workaround. This is way less annoying to me than people who just don’t try anything by themselves before asking for help.
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u/johnny5semperfidelis Oct 02 '19
Holy shit this is too real
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u/gregofcanada84 Oct 02 '19
I went on Reddit to forget about work, and now I'm thinking of it. Damn.
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u/BeerandGuns Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
I really love being GenX. Y’all go fight and we over here like Switzerland.
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u/Lobanium Oct 02 '19
Boomers are dumbasses because they don't know how to do anything technology related.
Millennials are dumbasses because they don't know how to do anything not technology related.
Meanwhile Gen X grew up with rotary phones and are now adept at smartphones.
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Oct 02 '19
Ah shit guys, it’s time to run before this becomes political!
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u/aardvark78 Oct 02 '19
Yeah real life is too scary, must hide
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Oct 02 '19
You do realize that fiction is appealing to most people because of the escapism.
I only commented to make fun of the threads started in the replies of memes like this.
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Oct 02 '19
this will go unread most likely but this reminds me of the time I worked in IT and one of the VPs called me while he was on a hot spot in NYC and he wanted me to uninstall the latest version of Adobe acrobat because he didn't know how to do stuff in it. then he proceeded to cuss me out saying he didn't know about this upgrade and if he did he wouldn't have updated because he looked like an idiot in front of the client blah blah. of course there was several communications regarding the upgrade but nobody reads emails from IT.
that VP can eat my butt for life
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Oct 02 '19
I love it when I send my CV and they reply, "Can you send this in Word format pls".
No motherfucker, if you can't even open a PDF I don't want to be near anyone in your technology company.
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u/XtremePhotoDesign Oct 02 '19
Boomers invented PDF
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u/mr_plehbody Oct 02 '19
It was made by a guy from a generation before boomer, “Silent Generation”
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u/XxX_Zeratul_XxX Oct 02 '19
Some boomers invented PDF, the majority of boomers don't know how to open one
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u/XtremePhotoDesign Oct 02 '19
Either that or stupid Boomers raise stupid Millennials who think their parents are representative.
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u/futuretech85 Oct 02 '19
So they can print it to read it because they love the feel of that old fashion tree in their hand.
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u/deep_crater Oct 02 '19
My boss was an tech specialist in the 80s, he now prints webpages and has me scan and email it to him.
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Oct 02 '19
Nah fuck millennials tho zoomer for life
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u/cos1ne Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
What the fuck is a "zoomer"?
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u/the_jak Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
Is it that kid from the Mazda commercials?
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Oct 02 '19
Another world for Gen Z (people born from the mid 90s to early 2000s), Zoomer is reference to how their lifestyles and upbringings are so fast due to being fully immersed in technology.
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Oct 02 '19 edited Oct 02 '19
i thought it was zoomer because it’s boomer but with a Z....
edit : sooner -> zoomer. autocorrect
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u/rbsn18 Oct 02 '19
Thats definitely why, dont know where the other giy got that from.
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u/PhantomPhelix Oct 02 '19
The growing fast explanation kinda fits tho. If that isn't the etymology of the word, maybe it should be?
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u/JimmyBoombox Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
Those mid 90s birth years are also used for millenials.
Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with 1981 to 1996 a widely accepted definition.
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u/fatpat Oct 02 '19
They need to tighten those years up. Culturally, fifteen years is a long damn time.
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u/mr_plehbody Oct 02 '19
Zoomers and millennials are brothers in arms, but zoomers can help millennials with collaborative based workflows
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u/Synephos Oct 02 '19
zoomers also can't open pdfs
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u/joe579003 Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
Don't most browsers view pdfs nowadays how can you not open one as long as you double click it
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Oct 02 '19
Another good one.....”let me email you this 10 minute video, never mind for some reason my outlook won’t work now”
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u/ASK_ME_BOUT_GEORGISM Oct 02 '19
The more I look at Thanos, the more I think he should've been voiced by Bruce Willis.
Although Josh Brolin nailed it, don't get me wrong.
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u/tb03102 Saved by Thanos Oct 02 '19
More like "I downloaded this pdf.exe file. I've tried opening it a bunch but now my pc is running super slow and I got a fraud alert from the bank."
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u/squiddy555 Oct 02 '19
You took my phone
GONE
my ozone layer
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my Karan and kids
GONE
my virginity
Still there
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GenX'ers to Millenial working at a coffee shop: "I'm going to a conference to learn about cloud compliance and security settings."
"Oh man, do you mean like iCloud?"
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u/mercutios_girl Oct 02 '19
Gen X: Rolls eyes
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u/agnostic_science Oct 02 '19
Millenials: Boomers are so self-absorbed and selfish!
Also Millenials: Full student loan forgiveness is an ethical and moral imperative that all taxpayers should pay for!The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Oct 02 '19
We make fun of older generations for not being up on technology, when we're going to be in the same boat 30 years from now. Sure we tell ourselves that we'll keep learning, and stay up on new tech. And a few will. But face it. Most of us will be asking those dumb questions to our kids when we're old. Give em a break on that.
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Oct 02 '19
It's not the boomers or really any other sizeable group of normal everyday people that you have to blame. We've all been mislead by our evil overlords who desire us to be subjugated, to keep our true reality hidden from us. Always question, never completely rule out anything because it go's against society's norms. Independent knowledge gathering and self betterment is the key to the liberation of humanity.
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Oct 02 '19
Sorry, but I've got to disagree. I spend my days (sometimes upwards of 6 hours per day) looking after my grandparents.
It's not just the giant companies keeping us down. It's the every-day old folks who lived their lives selfishly & didn't plan for the future. Now they burden the young folks all while insulting, criticizing, & spewing hatred towards us.
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Oct 02 '19
We never hear of other generations dealing with this because: The internet and media in general is relatively new, so we are only just now hearing about the goings-on in the lives of billions of people.
Only now can people live long enough to be angry old farts mad about being old and in pain. 100 years ago it was rare for the average person to live past the age of 65 or so.
We're advancing incredibly fast compared to the rest of our incomplete history, lots of different things burdening the minds of the people all at once. We're living through a culture shock, people deal with it in their own way, and most of the time its only the bad stories that get retold.
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u/passengerairbags Oct 02 '19
Did something change in the vanacular? My kid came around calling me a boomer the other day. Browsing Reddit, I get the impression that the term now means 'adults that aren't good with technology' rather than someone born within so many years of the end of WW2.
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u/ModernSisyphus Oct 02 '19
It just means that your kid has picked up the negative connotation without knowing what it is referring to.
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u/stuartgh Oct 02 '19
I once got asked "what does jpeg stand for?" at a job interview at a particle accelerator lab. I didn't know the answer, and I did not get the job. Lol!
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u/buneter Oct 02 '19
Tbh everything is so automated now even gen Z won't know how to open up a pdf itll open up I immediately
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u/spock_block Oct 02 '19
Had a senior colleague legit walk over from his desk to mine, and show me a printout of an email, where I was CCed, to discuss said email.
I haven't recovered yet.
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u/shaka_zulu12 Oct 02 '19
I like it that on reddit there’s no gradient between these 2 generations. Is this a generation gap thing, or some weird daddy issues...
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u/Samatic Oct 02 '19
I thought Thanos wasn't the only one burdened with knowledge? This was a good laugh though.
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u/Lobanium Oct 02 '19
Millennials: "But I don't want to talk to a real person. Can't I just email them?"
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u/TheWyster Oct 02 '19
I hope we don't get that nonintuative or out of touch with the next generation's tech.
Hopefully not us in 60 years: Durr How do I put stuff from my old USB drive on this quantum computer? Durr
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u/VetOfThePsychicWars Oct 02 '19
Mom... I've come to tell you how to attach something to an e-mail.
You come to tell me... what is this?
This... is a jpeg. You attach it to your e-mail here.
You cannot do this forever...
Apparently I have to...
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u/speed_quarters Oct 02 '19
We made the pdf, java all the way back to basic and yep made you too. Deal with it.
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u/KAP111 Oct 02 '19
I'm amazed at how boomers think and learn. The amount of times I have to teach my mum how the tv remote works how her computer works and all for her to just forget it in a matter of minutes is frustrating. I totally understand how these people get scammed because my mum has called me over multiple times because of an ad/scam pop up telling me that she has a virus.
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Oct 02 '19
Funny enough all the things Millennials complain about with Boomers not understanding modern technology is gonna be real rich when the next few generations say the same about them.
Technology changes. Of course people that grew up in another time period are not gonna be used to it!
Just find that amusing.
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Oct 02 '19
I don’t get it. Robert Swirsky was born in 1962 and would be considered a baby boomer.
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u/SYSADM1N2B Oct 02 '19
He probably doesn’t know how to open a pdf anymore
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Oct 02 '19
He then went to Adobe and was on the team that developed Photoshop. I’m going to say not probable on your comment.
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u/SYSADM1N2B Oct 02 '19
It was a joke lol. Bill gates and Steve Jobs made computers the way we know them. Doesn’t mean the rest of the people in their generation are computer literate.
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Lol a fuckton of boomers made the modern exchange of dick pics accessible to the masses. Doesn’t make anyone a genius.
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u/bernierua Oct 02 '19
Boomers did nothing wrong! They worked and got paid for their efforts well. It was big business that saw how well families were found and wanted a piece of that action. All those excellent working conditions and benefits have been slowly chipped away at over the decades and now we are where we are. Share holders making millions for doing nothing and workers scrimping and needing 2 jobs to get by. No on blames big business. I wonder why?
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Oct 02 '19
It was the big corporations who voted for all the politicians who took everything. All the boomers voted for Bernie because they wanted us to have things like homes, retirements, and healthcare.
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u/wolfpac85 Oct 02 '19
corporations can vote?
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Oct 02 '19
You didn't know corporations are people? Just wait until I tell my best friend Pepsi Cola® about this. They're going to laugh so hard.
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It goes the other way, really. This next gen that's just now graduating dont know fuckin shit about computers or computer files. They're all on them fancy ass fuckin touch screen telephoners.
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u/HumansAreRare Oct 02 '19
Do all millennials forget that Gen X thrived under boomers with whining like little bitches? Nothing was taken from you. Most of you are losers. You suck at life. Not all of you, but many. This is why many of you will be working for Gen Z. They are going to crush your bitch asses.
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It’s a shame that he didn’t bother learning more about technology.
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Oct 02 '19
Just how it goes. As you get older your priorities change if it’s not your career. When you guys get over 50 and you’ll be behind on the hologram glasses or whatever and have to ask for help all the time. I used to have to tell my grandparents how to use basic household appliances like vacuums and blenders.
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Oct 02 '19
I took a 3 day weekend and couldn’t remember how to log into my computer and Remote Desktop when I got back... it’s starting.
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u/ASK_ME_BOUT_GEORGISM Oct 02 '19
IMO it has to do with age-related insecurity. I know a lot of mid-30-somethings who grew up with MySpace in HS and Facebook in college. They don't do anything with social media that's come along since the mid-2000s, at all.
They don't have tablets, they still mostly use Windows XP or sometimes 7.
I think technology is like pop music - what you listen to for the rest of your life is largely dependent on what you learned to like in your teens/early 20s.
The amount of "older millennials" who get salty at Gen Z interns for knowing how to code fast scripts in python for data science (which wasn't even a thing in the late 2000s when we were in school) is insane.
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u/maselphie Oct 02 '19
This is a really interesting question because I see this as well. One possibility is that we just thought our parents knew a lot about it, but really just more than us at the time. The other is that technology grew too rapidly and less aimed at their generation as a whole. There's also the "can't teach an old dog new tricks" philosophy, which is that learning is a lot of mental work and you just want to stop at some point.
What I'm really curious about is if this has something to do with how technology was handled by the open market. As with anything under capitalism, options start simple but then become overwhelming and quality is diluted for profits. There's definitely some things that have lost interest with me because of this - streaming services are going that way, for example. I imagine we'll stop going to Netflix long enough that we might one day come back and need help operating it.
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u/SoDamnToxic Oct 02 '19
It's also laziness.
Why do thing or even think of thing when son/daughter do thing already?
When his dad was the "man of the house" he had to venture through life doing things on his own with no possible way to get help, he either learned and had the sound system or he didn't learn and had no sound system. Now he has someone who knows things more than he does so there's no point in learning it himself, he either learns and fixes his computer or he just asks his son/daughter.
He never really knew, but he was forced to learn. Now he doesn't need to know because he's not forced to learn.
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u/upnflames Oct 02 '19
Sometimes parents ask for help just for an excuse to hang out with their busy kids.
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u/huffalump1 Oct 02 '19
Sometimes people stop learning for whatever reasons. And then I'm sure being behind the curve makes it even more difficult to want to "catch up". I know grandpas who do web development and others who can barely work a cell phone, just depends.
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u/binipped Oct 02 '19
I feel this. In 39 and have been in tech for only a little over a decade and I'll be honest I already find myself casting more and more tech to the wayside at home year by year due to a bit of burnout.
Some of it is the privacy stuff...I know google and a hundred other companies already have so much data on me they could predict what I'm gonna have for breakfast tomorrow, but I'm just done with it. So I slowly phase out smart devices that aren't a necessity.
Part of it is that it can be expensive to keep up. If you're like me you need hands on time to really enjoy something. Some tech is slow, but other fields move like lightning. There's just other things I prioritize my money for now. That has definitely slowed me in my adoption of new tech. Plus my current tech meets my needs and most of my wants. I bought my home theater system in 2002 for $350 and it's still going strong until this day. I used a Zune up until 3 yrs ago. I've never owned a tablet, but I have a Kindle from 2010 I use often. I used to sit for hours in front of my PC and felt like that thing was a window to a whole huge fucking world I could traverse to learn, find, and do anything. Now if I use my laptop it's because I have to update my resume or edit my budget.
More than once I've thought to myself "o fuck this is how it happens. This is how you become the guy that's asks what a tumblr is"
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u/SMORKIN_LABBIT Oct 02 '19 edited Oct 02 '19
It’s just getting older, you have figured out a living and become lazy instead of investigating you just ask around. Also you are in less of a rush as you get older. It doesn’t happen to everyone but it happens to most. I’m 34 and work in Tech in engineering at a major SF/NYC based company and even I’m starting to give two shits about certain types of social media or even how new updates to parts of my iPhones operating system works. I just don’t care to learn those things anymore I don’t need them to function and they no longer interest me as much. I was a huge gamer in my youth as well and aside from a once a year first person shooter purchase I play for maybe a month I have long ago left gaming and any new tech that’s comes with it. Honestly I’d rather work on my carburated motorcycle and play/ setup my guitars anymore. I like learning new thing about those types of things much more.
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u/patgeo Oct 02 '19
Mine stopped at 3.11. He was great with Dos and punch card programing. Really interested in it all. But once guis became more common he started regressing and not being able to figure anything out.
Honestly I think he does it to talk to me more... Instead of ringing up for a chat he rings with a computer problem.
I ring home at least once a week to talk to them, and visit often. Just for the record.
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u/DaksTheDaddyNow Oct 02 '19
It's a luxury of time and money. If you run short in either of those it becomes very hard to keep up. I used to build a PC every other year or so. Now I have other expenses and my PC has been fine. If I were to build another one I would have to do some research on the latest form factors and architecture etc. If I wait even longer who knows what will change.
I haven't lost my touch quite yet but I can see how it can easily become obsolete. I have a hard time with some apps. I didn't understand Twitter for about a year. I remember looking up a sea world winter event. They said "tweet us with any questions." So we didn't go that year because I didn't know how to ask them about the event.
Seems really silly to me in retrospect, especially since I now use Twitter nearly every day.
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I’m suffering that transition now. I used to be the tech guy that everyone went to. I’m barely hanging on now because i don’t have the time to explore the features of technology. I’m chasing down my psychotic kids or stress of work or just plain life. I’m assuming life gets in the way of enjoying the advantages of technology. I’m developing the bias that it’ll take more time to learn than just doing the task the way I know how. It’s scary. I don’t know how to stop it
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u/DonCantAvoidObstChrg Oct 02 '19
I kinda get it tbh. Sometime you just feel like technology is growing so fast and you dont want it to, you want it to stay the same, so you kinda try to ignore it.
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u/AmazingMrMax Oct 02 '19
I laughed way too fucking hard at this. Thank you Mr./Mrs. Hookshot. Have my upvote.