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I was pretty worthless with computers at 16 too.
Now I’m almost 40 and I’m working In the industry and slowly getting worse again
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.
Guess me and my partner are exceptional zoomers? Them having a diploma in computer science and i am a software developer
Is this some Acrobat functionality or something?
Off the top of my head, there’s pdfjam, pdftk and imagemagick (don’t forget the --dpi switch) who could probably do that, after reading the man pages. Or ghostscript’ gs, if you want to go in-depth.
But generally, just rotate the source material you’ve got the pdf from. That’s how it is intended.
There’s one generation between boomers and zoomers? I’m pretty confident I know who it is you’re forgetting.
X MARKS THE HIDDEN TREASURE
Gen X: the forgotten generation.
The thing is most of us cant even rotate a pdf, but we do know how to learn it.
YES! being able to google (or read) goes a long way.
Goomers and hoomers and foomers and schroomers are all alike and your generation is smarter.
Eh PDFs are just annoying to deal with. I could do this stuff the adobe acrobat when I had the paid version in school but I’m cheap and no longer have it. If I’m feeling desperate I’ll find the ghostscript command that does it otherwise I just do something horrible (for example scanning to jpeg rather than PDF creating an HTML page with both images and printing that to PDF)
From writing a limited amount of code to generate PDFs from scratch the standard is just cursed. It was using 7 bit ASCII until fairly recently resulting in an eighth of the document being wasted space. Also when the switched to PDFs being an open standard the specs went from something freely available on adobe’s web site to a challege of how to send 98 swiss francs to ISO to get access.
PDF24 has been my savior for anything pdf related. I learned about it and suddenly I no longer hate pdfs.
I’ve trained a lot of 18-22 y/os in the last 10 years and they are fine. Let’s not become the boomers please…
I am a 30 yr old boomer in uni with 18 year olds and they are mostly fine. We are learning programming so the base qualification is to not dumb with computers. BUT My teacher friends are supporting OPs screencap where children do not understand computers at all. Theres plenty of tales of students being asked to log into a 15 minute online test and entire lesson is spent teaching them how to log in one by one. The issue is they click the biggest and flashiest button and quit once they discover it does not lead them where they want to go.
There is plenty more evidence that the next generation is unable to handle anything more complex than most popular apps on phone. Is it really surprising when everything has been designed to just work and be streamlined so you don’t have to troubleshoot anymore.
Yeah, being dumb is hardware-agnostic. As some guy put it, “being stupid isn’t a big deal anymore; some of my best friends are stupid”.
It just stunlocks me a little bit as younger people have been around tech their whole life, unlike boomers, who were born before computers.“been around tech their whole life” more like they have a locked down phone, locked down game console and MAYBE a desktop computer. It’s too rounded out and consumer friendly now, you never have to peek under the hood.
Boomers have been seeing changes in communications, culture, and technology as revolutionary as anything in the last 20 years, for their entire lives. Things didn’t start getting wild just recently. It has been a romp for the last 200 years.
Never judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.
Well yeah I didn’t learn at all about computers even in high school, when students did use a computer it was a cheap Chromebook. I bearly grew up with computers and thats the same for most people, the difference is I have autism so I hyprfocus on computers :3
The only reason we have to rotate the PDFs is because they can’t figure out how to use the sheet-feed scanner. Theres a picture embossed in the thing! And a sign that we put next to the button!
You need a full SOP with step by step directions and big pictures
They won’t fucking read it though, “I’m just not a computer person! tee-hee!”
For me, that’s been the major differentiator. The Boomers that don’t know basic shit in 2025 are proud of it; the Zoomers that don’t know have at least been willing to be shown. The Boomers that ASK to be shown though, ::chefs kiss::, now there is a passion to learn
The most satisfying joke in Questionable Content is one when robot asks another, ‘the hell is a PDF?’
I just copied from my phone and pasted to my steam deck. I still got it.
Just helped build my 12 year old cousin his first computer and was forced into putting Windows on it. Now, I get that it’s important that he at least understand what the “normal OS” is, but I did want to put at least Mint or something on there. Zoomers and Alpha really don’t know how to navigate even the basics, though, and this kid was no exception.
Well, technically I wanted to put something based on Arch but even I know that’s a bad idea for a sink or swim computer moment.
Yeah, schools do not have tech literacy classes and it’s devastating, this is why
I dunno how old you guys are but just in case… Schools never had good computing classes. When I was in school in the UK in the 90s we had MS Office lessons and that was about it.
Actually the UK took steps a few years ago to fixing that. Apparently they have actually computing classes now, but I don’t have kids of the appropriate age in school yet so I don’t know if it’s really as good as we’d hope.
Estonia used to have solid school classes since 2000s and now offers programming pretty early, but overall tech literacy is at an all time low.
