I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The average person is becoming MORE technologically illiterate, not less. The era of growing up with a home computer that required fiddling and dial up, etc is over. People grow up with phones and iPads and kids come to school not knowing how to use a mouse.

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      And for that reason alone I built a Linux PC for my 11 year old and told him to go to town figuring things out. (I supervise everything of course). Dude has been doing fantastic so far.

      • Windex007@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        If he doesn’t solve problems with chmod 777 then he’s already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company

        • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Oh, but you gotta drop a chmod nuke at least once to feel the terror having done something irreversible. As a bonus, you’ll also gain a brand new appreciation for snapshots.