Smarmy pride in knowing how to rotate a PDF is sounding a lot like “kids don’t know how to change a spark plug these days”. Tech keeps moving forward. Zoomers are way faster with their phones than you’ll ever be, and they know all the AI boosted efficiency features inside and out.
I have a lot of empathy for Zoomers and do not think they’re universally bad at “things”, but they are bad with technology as a cohort. That’s not up for debate. They grew up with apps they didn’t have to open the hood for. Anyone using AI without a foundational understanding of this stuff is a recipe for disaster.
I am a part of gen z, and while they may be fast with some specific functions of their phone, they are useless when it comes to anything on a desktop. So many people don’t understand filesystems.
It’s not, man. If you know how to use google, you know how to get the majority of the benefit from AI tools. At higher levels there’s some light additional usage, but the technology is still struggling there.
Zoomers are not, in fact, way faster with phones than I’ll ever be. I clumsily use my swipe keyboard faster than they type (and they look at it like it’s black magic even though I’ve been using that shit for 10 years now).
Also I know what a file system is. Have you tried to get a non-tech oriented zoomer who’s been using phones and tablets all their life to wrap their head around that concept ? Yet my boomer mom can use it competently, and she’s quite bad with tech.
The younger generation does some things better and more instinctively, true, but just like I never became a genius at electronics by only using them at a surface level all my life, and way more than my elders (and despite having some interest in it), the fact that they’ve been spoon fed tech doesn’t automatically turn them into technological übermensch or some shit.
I write so many wrong words due to swype it’s ridiculous, but it’s so nice to write with otherwise. Maybe I’ve been too slack with it and ruined the prediction algorithm or whatever. Maybe I’m just inaccurate. If I actually care, I’ll make sure to proofread, but often I barely glance.
Yeah it gets finicky especially if you write in several languages, but I think I’ve trained mine pretty well by trying to never let a wrong word through. Still has a hard time with repeating letters, or with words containing a succession of several letters that are close to each other on the keyboard though
Yeah, I’ve been swyping interchangeably between Norwegian and English on the same keyboard for years, and mixed in some Mandarin for good measure. That was on it’s own pinyin thing though, might not have affected the NB EN keyboard.
most zoomers just use phones and tablets, and mayyyybe a laptop for school. they’re using closed systems and never have to look at the files or anything. older zoomers may have experience if they gamed, especially things like early modded minecraft, but younger zoomers and gen alpha only use systems that do all the work for them
Exactly. I know some brilliant zoomers who are absolutely helpless with that kind of stuff. And I know some who are huge computer nerds and are just as good if not better than me with them (and I’m a professional programmer) but that’s definitely not the general trend.
Smarmy pride in knowing how to rotate a PDF is sounding a lot like “kids don’t know how to change a spark plug these days”. Tech keeps moving forward. Zoomers are way faster with their phones than you’ll ever be, and they know all the AI boosted efficiency features inside and out.
I have a lot of empathy for Zoomers and do not think they’re universally bad at “things”, but they are bad with technology as a cohort. That’s not up for debate. They grew up with apps they didn’t have to open the hood for. Anyone using AI without a foundational understanding of this stuff is a recipe for disaster.
I am a part of gen z, and while they may be fast with some specific functions of their phone, they are useless when it comes to anything on a desktop. So many people don’t understand filesystems.
And the Ai boosted stuff is usually shite.
It is trash but it is going to be very important trash to know how to navigate.
It’s not, man. If you know how to use google, you know how to get the majority of the benefit from AI tools. At higher levels there’s some light additional usage, but the technology is still struggling there.
Zoomers are not, in fact, way faster with phones than I’ll ever be. I clumsily use my swipe keyboard faster than they type (and they look at it like it’s black magic even though I’ve been using that shit for 10 years now).
Also I know what a file system is. Have you tried to get a non-tech oriented zoomer who’s been using phones and tablets all their life to wrap their head around that concept ? Yet my boomer mom can use it competently, and she’s quite bad with tech.
The younger generation does some things better and more instinctively, true, but just like I never became a genius at electronics by only using them at a surface level all my life, and way more than my elders (and despite having some interest in it), the fact that they’ve been spoon fed tech doesn’t automatically turn them into technological übermensch or some shit.
I write so many wrong words due to swype it’s ridiculous, but it’s so nice to write with otherwise. Maybe I’ve been too slack with it and ruined the prediction algorithm or whatever. Maybe I’m just inaccurate. If I actually care, I’ll make sure to proofread, but often I barely glance.
Yeah it gets finicky especially if you write in several languages, but I think I’ve trained mine pretty well by trying to never let a wrong word through. Still has a hard time with repeating letters, or with words containing a succession of several letters that are close to each other on the keyboard though
Yeah, I’ve been swyping interchangeably between Norwegian and English on the same keyboard for years, and mixed in some Mandarin for good measure. That was on it’s own pinyin thing though, might not have affected the NB EN keyboard.
whoa
I’m not pretending that is some amazing achievement though ? Imo that is a basic requirement if you’re gonna use a computer
most zoomers just use phones and tablets, and mayyyybe a laptop for school. they’re using closed systems and never have to look at the files or anything. older zoomers may have experience if they gamed, especially things like early modded minecraft, but younger zoomers and gen alpha only use systems that do all the work for them
Exactly. I know some brilliant zoomers who are absolutely helpless with that kind of stuff. And I know some who are huge computer nerds and are just as good if not better than me with them (and I’m a professional programmer) but that’s definitely not the general trend.
No they don’t. They know ticktock better then I do, but you ask them to get into app data and you’ll get a blank look