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Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.
Yeah, the first computer I remember in our house, I was 4, it was MSDOS, and my mom knew how to run everything, so she obviously had an understanding of command and all that. To this day, she's still incredibly tech illiterate. Her current improved status is emailing me shit that looks phishy so I can figure things out for her. I still get the calls that "something is wrong," and I need to go unfuck things a little. It's funny.
those aren't the same boomers.
All the ones in my life are.
Same. My dad worked as a call-out PC technician (among other things) and now can't grasp cloud storage.
"I don't want to save it somewhere else, I want to save it on my computer, but all my computers."
I agree with your dad. Everything saved to the cloud is a privacy and usability nightmare. Many people have lost data forever because cloud services misplaced their files.
I'm GenX but this is me. I hate modern computing and the cloud in particular. SharePoint is a close second. I think the last excellent word processor was WordPerfect 5.1. Everything since then is worse than the version before it.
I do have sympathy for people who are trying to figure out SharePoint or mobile OS file systems which just arbitrarily change the rules.
The arbitrary rule changes! I have six different folders labelled "android sucks" because different apps are like "I can't access any directory in your filesystem that I didn't personally create." Motherfucker this machine belongs to me. I created that directory. If I tell an app to access a directory, it should do as I command.
When I first got Tasker, it was life changing. Now I can't even tell it to turn off my damn Bluetooth. I hate google with every fiber of my being.