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What if that Zoomer stereotype of not being to maintain computer folders was an app?
i dont understand why this is a zoomer stereotype, all my life i've had like a tmp/ folder and a dl/ folder and even i dont know what the difference is, and i mainly find things in them by listing files by their date.
i'm an early millennial.
Assumptions that they only know how to use a phone/tablet rather than a desktop/laptop computer, I guess. I feel like I hear most of it from their former teachers/university professors.
yeah, i guess there's a difference between not being familiar with folders and not using folders properly
More than that they've never used a non-computerized desktop. The metaphor has lost it's usefulness because we have generations skipping the rite of putting paper into folders and going straight to devices that are hostile to user agency.
Gee wiz, I truly am a zoomer. As I was reading your comment, I thought "what the fuck is a non-computerized desktop?"
They should include manual paper sorting with folders and papers in communist computer lab.
Kids for the past decade plus go through school using google drive. Highly searchable. Teachers believe that kids are "tech savvy" because they know how to use tablets. So the entire process of teaching kids how to save, organize, find, and open files is gone. There are zero consequences for not knowing it either. But collages have noticed this trend for some time. Professors asking for project folders and discovering their students have no idea what they mean. It's not universal, but when the windows monopoly ended for schools, it meant kids were learning a whole different way to manage files.
as long as you're aware that the file system exists at all you're probably fine, like if you really had to you could find and move shit off your phone even if the "official" file transfer thing wasn't able to find the right files