How do you not know about computers?

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Tarra Sama 24 Apr @ 3:25am

It's now 2025, I keep finding people who have no idea how to do the most rudimentary things on PC. How to take a screenshot, know what a zip or rar file is, or any other compressed file type. Most forum posts on here are pathetically stupid with, "Guys I got hacked!" They explain what happened and then say something like, "I clicked a link that said FREE GIFTS!" Are you... that stupid? That gullible? Come on people.

Everything you need to know about computers at this point is on Google. Why is it so hard for you to use it? If you can't keep yourself from getting hacked, learning how a game or how a program works, and I'm not talking about Unity, Blender, FL studio, Camtasia, Adobe, black magic or any other complicated programs, I mean using Google and steam which are most of the time, point and click, stop touching it.

Seriously.

Computers aren't complicated, you're just lazy

Edit 4/27
I'm not saying I'm a computer genius but what I am asking is for you to understand surface level things about computers. I'm not expecting you to build a computer or know anything like coding your own OS. What baffles me is how stupid the average person is today. If you compare it to a car, you have 2 automatics, you can drive both but at most there might be one or two things different in the car that might make them drive different. You're not going to always know everything but you can at least try to understand the general idea.

Last edited by Tarra Sama; 28 Apr @ 8:47am

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Shibby 24 Apr @ 3:31am

Worked in the IT industry for many years, just remember the ID10T test its universal.

Electric Cupcake 24 Apr @ 3:31am

A generation has been indoctrinated by locked down, idiot proofed, walled garden mobile devices. And another generation is being given free locked down, spyware filled Chromebooks by school districts.

If it were up to me, every student would be given a Raspberry Pi and taught to use it.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/gen-z-kids-file-systems
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/the-floppy-disk-means-save-and-14-other-old-people-icons-that-dont-make-sense-anymore

sandokanski 24 Apr @ 3:31am

Yeah. You are looking at self-selecting group. People that are not hacked usually don't go around and brag about it. So you'll have to read "I got hacked" threads over and over.
You have to accept that there will be such people and you can't do anything about it. Maybe they will start learning after being a victim of phishing, scam, etc. People usually need quite a big push to start learning. Otherwise they keep doing what is fun.

Tarra Sama 24 Apr @ 3:57am

Originally posted by sandokanski:
Yeah. You are looking at self-selecting group. People that are not hacked usually don't go around and brag about it. So you'll have to read "I got hacked" threads over and over.
You have to accept that there will be such people and you can't do anything about it. Maybe they will start learning after being a victim of phishing, scam, etc. People usually need quite a big push to start learning. Otherwise they keep doing what is fun.

I noticed with Gen Z and Gen Alpha who are barely old enough to make basic ramen, are mostly iPad kids who are told to download apps, when something breaks, they call a service or not even google it.

↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect 24 Apr @ 4:55am

My boss hired this lady who is 19 years old. I was showing her how to do the inventory forums and she kept pressing on the screen. I told her the monitor wasn't a touch screen i told her that she has to use the keyboard and mouse. She looked at the keyboard and mouse looked at me and she looked me dead in the face and asked what a mouse was as she only used touch screens. So not only did i have to show her how to use our inventory software but also how to use a mouse.

bossman150 24 Apr @ 4:57am

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:
My boss hired this lady who is 19 years old. I was showing her how to do the inventory forums and she kept pressing on the screen. I told her the monitor wasn't a touch screen i told her that she has to use the keyboard and mouse. She looked at the keyboard and mouse looked at me and she looked me dead in the face and asked what a mouse was as she only used touch screens. So not only did i have to show her how to use our inventory software but also how to use a mouse.

Wow...

sandokanski 24 Apr @ 4:58am

Originally posted by Tarra Sama:
I noticed with Gen Z and Gen Alpha who are barely old enough to make basic ramen, are mostly iPad kids who are told to download apps, when something breaks, they call a service or not even google it.

I teach my kids how to handle such matters properly. So far it works. if all parents were doing it, then maybe the situation would be different. Just don't put it in schools, as the kids will see it as another thing they wish to avoid learning.

Abaddon the Despoiler 24 Apr @ 4:59am

Gen Z can use computers. But they can't read an analogue clock, tie their shoe laces or screw in a lightbulb.

sandokanski 24 Apr @ 5:01am

Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:
So not only did i have to show her how to use our inventory software but also how to use a mouse.

Damn! And I can't find work in my country. Funny.

Goldias 24 Apr @ 5:02am

Maybe they don't need to know. Like a retired old fart that still living like 1950.

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Tarra Sama 24 Apr @ 5:03am

Originally posted by Abaddon the Despoiler:
Gen Z can use computers. But they can't read an analogue clock, tie their shoe laces or screw in a lightbulb.

They can't use computers. Every other gen Z kid that comes to me for help on youtube always asks the same questions and I try to help them. It's normally cracking a file or explaining how something simple works like moving things around, showing how to use software and they STILL don't follow direction.

someone asked me "How do I activate chibi mode" on a video and I said, "you know it's funny, if you watch the video I actually explain this." and the video is 11 minutes long. Yet kids today cant watch a video past 3 minutes.

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Tarra Sama 24 Apr @ 5:04am

Originally posted by Goldias:
Maybe they don't need to know. Like a retired old fart that still living like 1950.

then they don't need to complain when they can't figure it out.

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↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect 24 Apr @ 5:05am

Originally posted by sandokanski:
Originally posted by ↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect:
So not only did i have to show her how to use our inventory software but also how to use a mouse.
Damn! And I can't find work in my country. Funny.

Well my bosses wife was doing it but had to retire because she ended up breaking her hip when she fell in the bathtub. So my boss had to hire a person. Not sure why he chose her. When she just got out of high school.

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Tarra Sama 24 Apr @ 5:12am

Originally posted by Breathe:
I mean.. people forget sometimes. I think younger people are pretty good at looking up information but the bad part is, they believe what is said as fact without considering the source(s).

I have a friend like this. He believes everything people tell him and take it for face value. The amount of girlfriends he's had that are "schizophrenic" they "hear voices" or they have some kind of mental disorder is nuts. Then I ask "did you actually ask if they were diagnosed?"

"Well, no but she says she has it"

"Dude you are a car guy, you know to ask question." This guy is a puppy at heart and wants to be loved but he wants it so bad that he is willing to listen to as much BS if that means he can snuggle someone at night.

Then he gets mad at me for asking questions. "The average person isn't going to just tell you their mental disorders. Someone with those disorders don't WANT to talk to you about them as you don't know what it's like with them."

He's 23...

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Tarra Sama 24 Apr @ 5:32am

Originally posted by Breathe:
Originally posted by Tarra Sama:
I have a friend like this. He believes everything people tell him and take it for face value. The amount of girlfriends he's had that are "schizophrenic" they "hear voices" or they have some kind of mental disorder is nuts. Then I ask "did you actually ask if they were diagnosed?"

"Well, no but she says she has it"

"Dude you are a car guy, you know to ask question." This guy is a puppy at heart and wants to be loved but he wants it so bad that he is willing to listen to as much BS if that means he can snuggle someone at night.

Then he gets mad at me for asking questions. "The average person isn't going to just tell you their mental disorders. Someone with those disorders don't WANT to talk to you about them as you don't know what it's like with them."

He's 23...
Yea.. there's a lot of self-diagnosing, for sure, and even second-hand diagnosing too ("Your ex is a textbook narcissist," etc). I mean, we will go back to words meaning something again; just gotta wait it out. Just as people questioning sources. It'll happen in time.

I wanted to be a teen counselor at one point then I thought to myself, "what teenager is gonna want a 45 year old helping them?"