A study on tech literacy : whitepeopletwitter

[–] x3x3@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

Did she intentionally use the word disclude to make linux autists mad?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Fun. I didn't grow up issuing a Mac, not did I grow up using Windows.... Nor Linux.

When I started on computers, we used DOS.

I'm old.

I'm not old enough to remember punch cards, I was solidly in the x86 generation, but still.

For the record, I do IT support now. I'm the one that helps you with your printer.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A home-built (from a set) one-board computer counts as what?

[–] The_Ferry@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Autistic children will be discluded from the study for skewing results

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Can we stop throwing around "autistic" for anything? Have people actually ever met autistic kids? It has nothing to do about having uncommon interest, it imply much more things than that.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Autism is a spectrum. Some autistic people are able to function somewhat normally while others might need help all their life. The term is certainly over used but it's possible to meet someone autistic without ever knowing it.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I've worked with autistic people for 10 years, I'm pretty aware of what it is. I find it insulting for these people to see this condition use as a buzzword for memes.

[+] 1234567ATEUP@lemmy.world -7 points 6 days ago

back in the 80's, whole rooms of Apple Computers sat empty, all day, everyday. At all the different schools i went to as a child.

I assume it's because none of the teachers wanted to learn them, it was real fucking shitty growing up surrounded by so many stupid fucks.

but now, soon, AI will be x1000000000⁷ better teachers. So at least the children will have an actual chance in this world, and so many of them won't choose liberal arts as their course of studies. -all that time they were just disciplining the children

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 158 points 1 week ago (29 children)

I'm currently training a new employee who comes from the "My school handed out Chromebooks" generation, and hol...eee...shit... Its frustrating as hell.

Literally every single instruction gets followed up with "no...double click"

FML

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I am that generation, but I was blessed enough (not dirt poor) to have a family Windows PC at home, and my mom got me a HP laptop later because she knew I was gonna be going to a tech school program in my Junior year, and knew that Chromebooks were dogshit.

My tech teacher would constantly complain about the kids who had like zero Windows knowledge, and couldn't do shit like open a PDF in word, or simply find the terminal. I knew this shit would happen when I was in school, I literally told my mom that anyone who can't afford a windows device at home is fucked in the work environment. Compounded by the fact most teens are iPhone purists and make fun of Android, they're just too used to "shit just works"

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

open a PDF in word

Hmm.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 87 points 1 week ago (38 children)

Tbf installing linux is not that hard

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Back in the day when installing Solaris and OpenBSD and such you had to specify in numerical values the number of sectors of hard disk space you wanted to format drives with. Shit is considerably easier now with modern UNIXy systems.

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[–] VampirePenguin@midwest.social 69 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Linux users are inherently more tech savvy because there are no limits. On the contrary, there is documentation and free knowledge aplenty. Windows and especially Mac hide and obfuscate everything happening under the hood and you are vaguely warned away from doing anything not specifically blessed by the corporation. That's why those users are less tech savvy on average.

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[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 64 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I grew up with mac, but I was always so frustrated that I couldn't play the games and run the programs my friends could on their computers. I finally bought my own PC in high school, and was so happy to have the control I always wanted. I haven't switched to Linux yet, but at this point it's inevitable; I'm just dragging my feet on figuring it out.

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[–] socsa@piefed.social 52 points 1 week ago (7 children)

My father made me figure out how to compile Linux drivers for a modem card before I could have internet.

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[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I started on a Mac and now I'm an IT expert.

But that's because my next computer was a Dell.

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My condolences, on both counts.

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[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

Year of birth matters a lot for this experiment.

Macintosh versus some IBM (or clone) running MS DOS is a completely different era than Windows Vista versus PowerPC Macs, which was a completely different era from Windows Store versus Mac App Store versus something like a Chromebook or iPad as a primary computing device.

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