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[-] snaggen@programming.dev 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Boomers, cars was the latest tech that everyone was fiddling with. This caused even the boomer that wasn't very interested , to know quite a lot. For later generations, car became more of a means of transportation, and the knowledge of cars was only for specialists. For gen X, computers were the high tech thing, everyone was fiddling with. Most gen x can setup a printer if they have to. For later generations, computers are just tools, and the knowledge is only for specialists.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Video games and getting them to run on computers taught me most of what I know about them via "fiddling," so this checks out for this Xer.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

installing minecraft mods are what got me to where I am today, I approach tech stuff with a "I'll learn how to do this" (fiddling) rather than a "oh i'll just call the PC guy" that my mom would do.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

80s millennial here and same. Getting games to run was so much work back in the 90s that I learned about computers. I think I got my first IT job because I was able to install and setup Word.

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