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screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (5 children)

One friend of mine told that he read once that kids these days doesn't even know how to create a folder (or directory), is that true?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is the only one of these that I simply do not believe I am genz and admittedly more into computers than average but I have never met anyone who couldn't figure out to right click to make a new folder unless they mean that they didn't know how to use the terminal to do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean... My Mac M1 doesn't allow right-click create a new file. 😮‍💨 ! Also, if I recall correctly, there is a similar thing that made me go crazy on Gnome DE.

Nowadays, people hate to get everything neatly separated in a nice and well ordered directory structure. They throw everything in the same directory and use the find/search function, for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I dislike gnome to an unreasonable extent. I tried using it when I first tried linux and it did not vibe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gnome had right click --> new folder, but only if you can select the white space, or you can right click the small empty square in the upper right below the top but above the scroll bar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha, some kind of dead DE pixel ? 😅

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you know how to create a directory on your phone? Lots of kids have never used a desktop/laptop, just phones and tablets.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, so do I, but it's not something I ever needed to do on a phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, files, and hamburger menu at top right, new folder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean you don't open the terminal and use mkdir?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Too many letters. md for me 🤪

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That can change depending on your file manager, and many OSs do not present the file manager app anywhere but the app list by default, if they even have one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So our IT guy sent a training memo for a task. Step 1, 2, 3, etc. The one step was go to folder /User, then go to folder yourusername. A young guy emailed back " there is no folder called yourusername".

I explained to IT, some of these people have never navigated a folder structure and don't realize Yourfoldername is meant to be replaced with their own name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I have this at work with technical people. It's ever so frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

It is true, and I've seen it myself. At first I refused to believe, but sadly we're already at that state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I was showing a co-op how to do something last year and told them to navigate through our department drive into whatever folder we were looking at.

They couldn't do it. They had somehow managed to get to the department drive in file explorer, but then completely fell apart when I narrated the names of the folders to go down into. Like I'd say "Go into 'desks and tables'" or whatever and I'd watch them drag their cursor past the Ds, past the Es, and then just click on something completely different. Like their brain just stopped working. It took us like 2 minutes to get less than 10 folders deep.