Kids often aren’t explained the difference and if they have been they just don’t care.
A 51 year old Judge has a vastly different brain and should be able to retain the difference when explained.
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sping@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months agoKids often don’t know the difference between “wifi” and the Internet. It’s not an age thing these days.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
You’d think they’d notice they can use the internet from their phones when there’s no wifi.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If it’s not connected to a cord, it’s wifi. Now try and explaining those nuances to them that there’s more than one-type of wireless signal.
Wifi is easier and simpler. Sometime I find myself making the mistake…
In construction there’s a similar issue (with grown men even). A circular saw is the tool, but everyone calls it a skilsaw, which is a brand name. You can correct them, they just don’t care, that’s what the tool is called, a skilsaw.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I hold out hope they’ll figure out the difference when they have to pay for separate subscriptions for cellular data and home internet service.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
TIL skilsaw was a brand name. I thought it just just the guy making Doom maps.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But is this like Kleenex?
clgoh@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Pretty sure they call cellular data “wifi”.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or you’d think it would also be very easy to demonstrate you can be on wifi and not on the internet.
Elderos@lemmings.world 8 months ago
Since smartphone became a thing it has always been my theory that millenials, and up to a point GenX, would be the only two generations to be forced into being tech-savy. Boomers and GenZ have been overwhelmingly tablet and phone users. Whoever still logging on a PC nowadays will have a vastly different experience than what it used to be.
It is a different world really. I am a huge geek and I have been in tech for a long time now, but I still get confused look at family gathering when I tell them I have no idea how to fix someone’s Ipad or what app/settings/touch gesture to do whatever.