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Android privacy ROM >> iOS (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (23 children)

This is turning a generation of people tech illiterate. The young people I interact with are smart because they're all employed by a tech company and mentored by us dinosaurs, but I've heard some horror stories of the tech literacy of the average young person.

Touchscreen was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Touch input isn't the problem. Hiding the file system is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yup. I teach at a university. It used to be adequate for instructions to say something along the lines of

open the file C://Folder/anotherfolder/subfolder/document.ext

I encounter more and more students every year that have no idea how to do this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Your path syntax is wrong tho...

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