I’m a youngish millennial and I’m pretty sure I’m about to die of old age
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Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 weeks agoI’m gen z. gtfo with that boomer mentality I refuse to become like you
datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
God I wish that were me. Socially acceptable death is a blessing for my peers and I
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ok zoomer. (/s)
But for real. I’m an elder millennial and most of lemmy is millenial-ish. Gen X and boomers, the ones who are on platforms like this, are incredibly rare. Reddit already skewed older than lemmy, and most of us were the earliest users/ power users of Reddit. So there is a reason why lemmy skews tech literate.
Like, we were the first generation to grow up with the internet in the house but also probably still had a land line phone. We had to figure shit out and also got to learn along with the technologies development. My intro to programing was Intro to Flash for making poop games that you might have played, but I also drank crystal Pepsi and could go see a double feature for $1 at the matinee. We bridge the gap between what was an effectively analog world to an entirely digital one.
So you aren’t wrong, but you are also on my lawn.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Your experience is the same for younger generations just the relevant technologies have changed. My great grandad who could ride a horse and drive a car wasn’t a better driver than me because he was there when cars were bad.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah but like, its not just a personal experience or anecdote.
My brain had to bridge the gap between two different worlds. The year 2000 is was similar to 2025 than the year 2000 was to 1990.
And 1990 was more similar to 1965 than it was to 2005.
We didn’t experience a smooth technological transition; it was an abrupt and whole cloth transformation, and by 2005… well… things actually haven’t change that much since 2005. They’ve changed, but the change isn’t nearly as radical as the change from 1995 to 2005.
Technical transformation follows a consistent pattern of tool innovation, radical adoption, and then, effective stability for long periods of time. Some generations bridge a gap between tool kits and some don’t. Gen-X largely missed out on that transformation. Z caught the tale end. Alpha is growing up in a period of, well, at least platform stagnation.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As did past generations with new technologies. No car- cars everywhere. That generation could rebuild a transmission whereas it’s a mystery box you have a specialist fix for you.
No TV, TV everywhere, tubes in tvs, then transistors. My much older brother in law can identify and fix any TV at the component level. Like identifying a bad capacitor and not only replacing it but understanding the circuit to know that a larger ufarad capacitor will not only work in that part of the circuit, but prevent a future problem.
I suspect that like me, your TV repair knowledge ends at matching cables on the back to ports and replacing batteries.