To my fellow Gen X’ers…
Shhh!
Let someone else deal with the inept on the other end of the phone. Be happy we’re being ignored again.
I was going to complain, but you’re damned right.
Silence is golden.
Millenial here:
This is good advice, sage even.
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EDIT:
I didn’t forget the couple of extremely cool and also very knowledgable Gen X mentors/bosses I had, hahah!
The meh generation
At this point I’m happy to let someone else do it. Being everybody’s tech support sucks. I can just tinker with and enjoy my own setups in peace.
i figured gen z would start fixing my computer once i hit my current age (41); turns out i dont know any gen z’s that understand how computers work.
im really tired of being everyone’s tech support :(
I know of one, and it’s my kid. And they’re just as frustrated as I am about how little their peers know about computers
i did the world a favor and decided to not have kids. sadly, this also means i am unable to hand down a generation’s worth of computer knowledge, heh.
It’s funny how bubbles can change so much. In my personal experience, most Gen Z people know their way around computers and how to fix stuff. I regularly help my millennial sister with stuff like that.
41 myself and the future scares me for too many reasons, this definitely being one of them.
And we GenX are happily left out of this one.
It’s OK - whenever we’re not left out we opt out anyway…
Left out of the meme, not left out of being called to fix shit.
We truly are the middle child of generations, forgotten until we are needed.
Ok but what about Gen X?
We could fix it too, but we don’t wanna.
We’re burned out. It’s time to pass the soldering iron.
They’re too tired for that too. They’re more of a “blow in the hole and jiggle it” people.
Napping. Wake me up when September ends.
lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.
I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.
My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.
tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.
Tldr; you got your feelings hurt over a meme
Gen x doesn’t have feelings
j/k That’s awesome.They aren’t saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.
Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they’d be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective,
The problem is their dates are off. Home Computers went mainstream in 1977 with the Apple II.
I saw this as a millennial and immediately thought to myself “did they forget GenX built the internet?”
I’m a xennial or whatever you wanna call us and I can’t stand the generational cold war that takes place in our society
The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.
I agree with this person!
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You’re all educated professionals. This meme is more about your average user.
Actually agree.
By age I would be late gen-Z / almost gen-A. I grew up in rural middle-east and was introduced to home internet for first time in highschool(2020)
Where would I fall?
First introduction to Internet in late highschool or College means you’re a gen X.
You can keep still, or whatever, but frankly it doesn’t matter. You don’t matter. Your parents (Boomer’s) mortgaged your generations, and everyone since, future for a pointless capitalist nightmare.
Conversely, me and my whole family is dumb as fuck, every generation.
Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?
Go study a trade, ffs
Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.
gen x
You do realize Gen X were the ones who were building their own computers back in the late 80’s and all through the 90s and loading them with Windows 3.1 and the original flavors of Linux, on top of fostering the open source world everyone here relies upon? All before Millennials graduated from Jr High.
Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!
Shhh - let the Millennials do it, they need the validation, and most of us need a nap.
Gen X here. If I cared what any of those age groups thought I would feel slighted.
But I’m Generation Z and I have to update my mom’s Linux Mint laptop because she can’t pay attention when I show her.
I wrote a shell script my mom just has to click on to run the updates and she still can’t figure it out. The filename is literally “ClickHereToRunUpdatesMom.sh”
I’m also Gen Z
Gen Z / alpha: “fix the computer? Do you mean the phone?”
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Not all of Gen Z are tech illiterate. Some of us used computers before iPads and smartphones. I used Windows XP and 7 long before I ever got a smartphone.
Same here, but I’m a border generation (born in the late 90s)
So am I! I guess we are more relatable to millennials. 10 years ago, people would call me one so whatever.
Whaddup my dudes! Same era, first computer I used had 10GB of HDD and 64MB RAM, still have a backup of the files somewhere…
If they want to take over from my gen-X ass from doing everyone’s fixing shit, I’m all for it.
Though i’m the very tail end of genX and a “computer expert”, I pretty much think that the millennial generation being the only generation was all part of a solid de-education plan. At the rate we’re going Its only a matter of time where the tech we have today is forced to be only approved OS, controlled, monitored and IT capable people who know how to bypass will be arrested for violating the law.
The water is starting to get warm…
