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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] whereitsat@lemmy.zip 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

gen-z and alpha don't know anything about computers.

frankly, i have no idea how anything is even maintained. it's probably on the backs of millions of first and second-gen immigrants.

some of these dumbasses i work with can't even navigate basic windows features--and these are college bound young adults.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I read comments like yours and always thought it was hyperbole, then I became a bioinformatics teacher.

Not hyperbole. iOS and Android destroyed future generation's ability to understand traditional computing.

They can't unzip a file, they can't navigate a directory hierarchy deeper than one level, they can't reply to an email without replying to all recipients.

A class about BLAST had to become a class about how to install a program on Windows.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

wait... how to install a program on windows? you mean download the installer, yes, yes, next, i agree, next next next, done?

[–] Kabaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The main installation method young people run into nowadays is the Steam or phone app store experience: search for the thing in the store, click "install," wait briefly, click "open." Installing a program from a website or physical media is not as common an activity as it used to be — other than installing Steam itself or similar, for example, which is a quickly forgotten inconvenience.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

o. o wild, i hope the kids discover the joy of installing independent software on their machines

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

It's asking for a "path to install"? I don't want to go for a walk

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

gen z here, you're thinking of young gen z or gen alpha. us old gen zs have a lot in common with milenials, as in we're the ones doomed to export to .pdf and "fix the wi-fi please"

[–] dimmuborgnine@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Hello friend, welcome to the next ten years of explaining to people that being 29 and being 39 are not the same

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

except when a website stops working when you enable adblockers, ive ever used monkeyscript

[–] GalacticRobot@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

ome of these dumbasses i work with can’t even navigate basic windows features–and these are college bound young adults.

It's funny, if you have a generation that hasn't ever needed to use Windows, wasn't trained on it, pretty hard to knock them for it. It would be the same thing as taking Windows users and dumping them on Mac, or worse, dumping them into a rando Linux distro and saying 'good luck, why do you suck at this'. Its a pretty popular YouTube video topic for the tech sphere lately though.

[–] dimmuborgnine@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Can you believe these nincompoops can’t even boot into DOS?

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

the same thing as taking Windows users and dumping them on Mac

Which has happened to me and was no problem, its very intuitive to use most systems.