"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 18 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I want to add another comment even though I already commented because I just wanted to say:

I think it's very, very important that we don't shame people for not having a certain skill because I think that discourages people from learning.

Skill regression in a society is a sign of a neglect. Nobody is bothering to get anyone excited to learn these skills. That's how you teach people, by getting them excited to figure things out, not by making them feel like an idiot. Ask yourself, did boomers complaining about us not being able to write cursive teach us anything or did it just make us call them out of touch?

You fix this by being an encouraging mentor, not by complaining.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Truth. The boomer way is shaming and saying "well I'm better", the true path lies in saying "yeah I didn't know how to do X till I found this cool guide or forum post here's what I did to fix it and here's a link to a cool tech channel".

[–] oliveoil@hexbear.net 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The boomer idiocy about cursive, I consider to be distinct from actual core skills of the tools that permiate daily life.

[–] 389aaa@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

In fairness to cursive, some kind of cursive was the standard form of handwriting for basically all English writings up until probably the 2000s - it is legitimately very useful for anyone who might have to dig through old documentation or letters. And handwriting is an important skill to build, cognitively speaking, it has lots of second order benefits.

Definitely a less important skill than ability to actually understand computers, these days, but it does have its uses and if everybody forgot how to do it a lot of old stuff would suddenly require specialists to decipher - we're basically halfway there already, people of my generation often have to kick cursive up to older people because we were never taught it.