The next generation doesn't know how to use a mouse because they do everything on the phone. And yes, I have met people like that.
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Bold of you to claim most millennials understand how a computer works.
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your kids will be fixing your 3D holographic projection glasses or some shit like that dont worry
But by then the solution will be "oh dad, you didn't subscribe to Projecto Pro Premium. No wonder all your ads are in 2D!"
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My four-year-old daughter is shockingly proficient with a mouse and keyboard. Kid goes to town on Spyro: Reignited. My wife snagged an old PC from her office and we want to set it up for her eventually for learning, light gaming and MS Paint. We figure in another year or two we can set up a family Minecraft server and get her in on it. The dream is to get her playing Valheim with us when she's older.
Hoping she will be as good with PCs and I am, and would love to help her build one when she's grown.
shes old enough to start learning hardware now! i absolutely did this with my kids when they were 3-6. take an old pc apart, put it back together with them naming the parts. they all loved it. a toddler trying to say 'processor' is hilarious btw. only one (25%) seemed to continue playing with hardware but they all know what makes up a pc and he is the one running the family minecraft in docker.
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It seems that those aged roughly between 30 - 50 hit the sweet spot when it comes to computer literacy.
There is an interesting text about it, albeit it is 11 years old already: Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
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Not only that, but co-workers from my own generation also don’t know how to fix their own computers, so I’m just surrounded by people that have no idea how any of it works.
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Feels like it doesn't it? I enjoyed taking apart and fixing the family computer as a kid but it was also out of necessity. If it wasn't me? Then who else would or could?
I'm still trying to decide if it's a "when I was a kid I used to clean my own carburetor" situation. Like, is it a "back in my day men were men and we fixed our computers by hand", or more so, there's just not a need to dig into computers unless you enjoy it like any other hobby.
I fix my own computer and my own car ...for me, it's a poverty thing!
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I'm glad that many kids are into PC gaming, at least. That's still a decent vector into computer proficiency and a little hardware knowledge.
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in my experience, younger kids either don't know anything about computers or are obsessed with them. I don't see a lot of the middle
I literally just watched a video of a dude telling a story about how when he was 13 in 2012, his Xbox 360 controller stopped working and he thought the whole console broke when he just had to replace the controller batteries. 🤣
gen z here, can confirm. most of my peers just do not care about learning how things actually work
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