Only one generation knows how to fix tech...

And again, generation X completely forgotten about.

- Yep
We fix our own damn computers before the Millenials get out of bed.
The whole history of this meme is a tired Boomer-tier joke. It's 9gag material at this point.
We're already at that end of the alphabet again?

Gen X - who, let's face it, wrote most of this stuff - gets forgotten again.

Fine with me. Leave us the hell alone.
- Oh it's a printer? I, uh, yeah, no I don't know anything about printers sorry.
That’s cool. We’re used to being forgotten and this way nobody will ask us to fix their computer.
By that logic, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak were Boomers so Boomers all know how to fix computers.
Let's face it, "generational" assumptions are all too coarse to be valuable - and are probably just another way to separate and divide us all so we stop thinking about how to take down the ruling classes.
- My dad is close to 80. He's been PC savvy since the super early 1980s and he still is, although he is stuck in Windows because he's a monster in the astrophotography world and most of his software isn't supported in Linux etc. I dated a girl in college whose dad was one of the founding creators of the internet. Unlike Al Gore lol.
  I taught my younger brother how to program in basic and pascal in the 80s. He's now a super successful programmer. I'm pretty poor but I like to build fix and upgrade people's computers as a hobby. I am gen x.
Gen X is the Aslan lion meme: “Do not cite the deep computer repair magic to me, Millennial. I was there when it was written.”
- Asian lion?
As one of those Gen-X that actually helped create the dumpster fire we call the modern Internet, I have come to realize that we fall into two camps. You either look young enough to be classified as a Millennial (my wife) or you look old enough to immediately be thrown in the Boomer bucket (me)...which is really unfair because no other generation has hated and fought the fucking Boomers longer than us.
I'd love to show some GenZ photos of Matt Damon, Bem Affleck, Cillian Murphy, etc. and ask them what generation they think they are.
- The struggle is, we all live long enough to be the next boomers. Maybe in 10 years it is: "OK, Gen-X"
And this is how we prefer it.
Whatever
no, they're just choosing to not fuck with this shit because they've had enough
I don’t know about you, but I quit doing that soul crushing work as soon as I could something I really loved.
Hey, Millennial here. Just a friendly reminder to drink your metamucil today
They said boomers so same dif.
Ahhh I see. So what you're saying is that Gen X is actually the root of our problems? Boomers were just another symptom that needed a GUI.
Eh. Genx understood how to work a VCR and deal with the rat's nest of cables behind the TV
Computers are millennials
- Utter BS. I’m on the old end of Gen X and I’m still building PCs for people and troubleshooting their shit when it breaks. I have yet to meet a much younger person who can do it as well.
- Older Millenial here. It was definitely GenX that paved the way for the computer world I learned, and it was mostly GenX who wrote the books and taught the lessons (often informal) that brought us what knowledge we have, at least in the beginning. Plus a small selection of exceptional individuals from older generations, including, dare I say it,… the baby boomers.
- When I joined the company maintaining Unix, I was one of the younger ones. It's older X who knows how it's all built; because they did it.
- I had home computers 10 years before the internet really hit.
- Very late Gen X or early millenial no. We came through VCR DVD it was a wonderful change. Also Torvalds would be Gen X.

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.
- And duct tape is silver
Millenial here:
This is good advice, sage even.
...
EDIT:
I didn't forget the couple of extremely cool and also very knowledgable Gen X mentors/bosses I had, hahah!
I've spent the last decade training Millennials just for that task.
I'll be over here screwing with the K8S cluster if you need me.
- You seniors and your K8s I tell you whut
The meh generation
- so middle of the road that they are left out of every discussion about generations. Boomers may suck, but at least they’re memorable lol
- Nah, they’re the last “boomer” generation. Fed a diet of TV and no internet growing up, but just in time to secure the last slice of normal with owning a home and having a family on a decent income.

I know enough Millennials who don't know shit. "My email address is www...."

There are luddites in every generation.
Same. My older brother got scammed by the "hello this is paypal. Your account got hacked." Eventhough i told him to hang up and that it is a scam
- Anyone can get scammed, they just have to get you with your guard down.

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.
The generation that couldn't be bothered.
"Meh"
- Whatchu got going for you, pal? Crippling anxiety? Unable to socialize? Helplessly uninspired? The creativity of a mushroom?
  Meh.

There are some parts of Gen Z that can actually tear stuff apart and actually fix systems, but those are the nerds (which also includes me) that care enough to actually learn stuff. The majority is quite tech illiterate

Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.

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.

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.
Napping. Wake me up when September ends.

Pc gaming is kinda bringing gen z and alpha back to the light. RGB is how the get you and before you know it you're watching pewdepie's guide to installing Linux and custom android roms.

I'm quite optimistic about the computing future tbh! With LLM helping with troubleshooting the field should be much more accessible for anyone willing to learn.

Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!

Shh, we get to be anonymous, tech literate and be able to buy our own houses.
Shhh - let the Millennials do it, they need the validation, and most of us need a nap.

Well I don't know... I worked with boomers who first built out the internet in my country. Now they mostly retired, but the Gen-Xers who remain are also incredible.

My dad who's also a boomer and an anesthesiologist got admin rights at the hospital he worked at because he helped everyone around with their computer troubles and the tech support trusted him and were happy he reduced their ticket load.

Maybe you guys just know the wrong people.

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.
- Depending on definitions, I'm either a millennial or gen-z. Some of my team mates are awesome and know everything there is to know about computers. Others have knowledge gaps that make me question whether they went to uni. They're also the same people who commonly don't know how to find answers to things. They're also the people proclaiming the loudest about the greatness of Gippers
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.
- No generally Gen z is not afraid of tech but doesn't know how it works.
41 myself and the future scares me for too many reasons, this definitely being one of them.
I am Gen Z, I can copy paste commands from online forums into the terminal, then proceed to fuck shit up. 🫠
(Don't ask me to type commands from memory, I'd rather use windows spyware than deal with command line torture)
- This is how I am for the part (including most people who aren’t computer enthusiasts or CS degree holders). I know my limits on what I am willing to do with command lines because I don’t have time to memorize all that shit.
- You just have to practice more! Though while I'm pretty good with computers Linux does still scare me a little too, I have a habit of poking around where I'm not supposed to and Linux is more than happy to let you break things
I am gen z and just writing my bachelor's thesis for computer science/Cybersecurity. Many of my peers are in CS too.
- as a software engineer who didnt go to college, i am not talking about programming; i have peers at work who have a masters degree in CS who know nothing about computers.
  i'm talking about troubleshooting problems and fixing them by telling your boomer aunt what to do over a video call when her keyboard makes her computer too slow for her cat to read her favorite comic when she presses the "G" key.

Let's be fair, we millennial know how to fix stuff because stuff still can be fixed. We can glance back one generation away and learn about how stuff work back then, and also learn how to fix those stuff. Nowadays stuff aren't meant to be fixed, (late) gen z doesn't have thing to start tearing apart and learn about the inner working of stuff, because it's all glued/snapped together, with the culture being once broke just toss.

Computers themselves are still pretty fixable.

Just ask an AI to fix it.

YOUR COMPUTER NEEDS AN RTX 5090 SUPER RUNNING THE SKYNET CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICE TO WORK PROPERLY.

Easy

There are people out there who would happily give AI all the power in the world to turn their skulls into a highway or a scammer access to their entire bank account just so they don’t have to read out an error and google it for themselves out of fear of technology or even speaking to anyone about technology.
Sort of like those people who would rather drive their car off of a cliff rather than ever hear words from a mechanic or check their own oil.
And when it arrives it turns out you need a new computer as well. Also it's lacking some features you need, and it has some new features nobody asked for. Also fixing it became much harder and doing so can get you to jail.

Where did Gen X go?

I am happy to pretend not to know anything so as not have to fix everyone's computer.
Even to the point that when someone is expected to fact check at a dinner table - I look at the young'ns as if I am hopeless so that they can do the lookup.

Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.

Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.
- I need to learn this wisdom. Gen x and I fix way too much bullshit from idiots. The only plus side is often people give me their old PCs and some of them have one or two great components. I recycle what I can and salvage anything worth saving but I need to spend less time fixing worthless hardware.

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
My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.
My grandpa was a robotics engineer and thus knew how to use a PC quite well but watching him operate Windows 10 basically without utilizing any tools that came after DOS was bizarre.
- To Microsoft’s credit, they have historically been very good about ensuring backwards compatibility. There are a few notable exceptions, but for the most part you can treat Windows as if it is DOS, and it still mostly works.
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?”
The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.
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
Totally normal response to a meme.
You're all educated professionals. This meme is more about your average user.
I agree with this person!
Conversely, me and my whole family is dumb as fuck, every generation.
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.
Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?
Go study a trade, ffs

Am i a rare GenZ or do i just hang around with unicorns because we are all active in IT. Me programming nog hardware but still

You are rare and these stereotypes are mostly false. Most people in every generation can’t fix a computer. Maybe the only slight echo of truth is that during the millennial childhood and youth, at least in terms of raw numbers, home computers peaked as the main “tech” children were exposed to, so there might be a little more people who are not professionals, but have some extra comfort with them. Still, that’s a stretch.
This is the "Nobody who isn't a Boomer knows how to fix a car" tier meme material. Just a tired lie that keeps getting recycled as a meme because it's clickbait for the snobs.
Yeah I am GenX, and it's me & the kid who is GenZ are tech support in my family, she is by far my most technologically adept offspring. One millennial kid is hopeless, says "technology hates me", the other just a low-technology sort of person, but fine with computer for work. And the youngest expects everything to just work, which seems to work out for them. Husband is culturally a boomer, LOL but also just expects everything to work, but it doesn't work out as well for him.
Only the GenZ one likes to mess with the computer and likes to know how to fix problems, and she is our pirate as well, the mistress of forbidden content - if something is not on the streaming she can often find it for us.

And we GenX are happily left out of this one.

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.
It’s OK - whenever we’re not left out we opt out anyway…
I wish
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?searchResultPosition=1
Yup.

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 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.

And immediately after we turned the computer on/off and get it working they will post how millennials are weak because we drink ice coffee and go to yoga.

As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.

Yeah, this is more young X and old millennial. Xers born in the late 60s-early 70s and millennials born in the late 80s-90s don't know shit.
I've heard us (young Xs and old millennials) described as the ~~organ~~ Oregon Trail generation. We grew up along side the tech so we understand it better than your average person from before or after.
- Is this a black market body parts game? Drug wars meets Oregon Trail?
- I'm not sure why people are down voting this. I agree 100%. The most techie people I have ever known are part of what you called "the Oregon Trail generation" (I love this term).
- Oregon Trail.
And a younger one...

Gen X here. If I cared what any of those age groups thought I would feel slighted.

Bingo.
- What I see is the same for most every generation. You arrive at adulthood and look around judging all the older folks as being clueless. You fail to solve all the worlds problems while you still know it all. Then you get a job and wise up. The ones who never realize they don't know shit are the ones who cause all the trouble.

I'm actually, genuinely shocked by the ageism in such debates every single time. There's no such thing as age-based incompetence, TBH. There are sound people for every field available everywhere. Why do we have to assume this? Every generation has at least a few people who are competent in their field, even in computing. It's more important that the literate of us unite to end illiteracy and stop injustice being done in the name of technology. This, honestly, is just making fun of each other, for apparently no sound reason. And I'm talking about the comments, not the meme. I might, or not, get some sour disagreements, or straight-up very bitter replies for arguing even this, ...and again, I ask: Do we reeaaally have to do this?

Technology too has a supposed duty of bringing people together...!

For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.
Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.
That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.
- What in the utter fuck is this dog shit take???? lol. Dude, Boomers INVENTED fucking computers. GenX, grow up along side them. We pretty all had a vic 20, Commadore 64, or Spectrum 48k/128k, or Amstrad CPC464. And later on an amiga, or an ST. The list is fucking endless, and thats before you get to to the Apple II, the trs80 and Commadore PET and later 386 PCs.
  We grew up with ham radios, VCRs, TVs that only played games on one channel. We had Nintendo and Sega battling it out in the 80s, then Sony, nintendo, panasonic, Sega, NEC, SNK, Philips, Atari, Casio(who created a console exclusively for girls for some reason), Bandi, apple, and fuck knows how many others battling in the 90s. The idea that all these things were invented by/or used by boomer and genx, and you can sit there thinking we dont know how to use shit... We're the fucking figure it out generation, son. If something broke, we had to learn to fix it ourselves. And without youtube videos and FAQs to hold our hands.
  Millennials, absolute kings of the terrible takes and pulling information out of their arse.
Ok boomer!
- LOL thanks.
  Also FYI I'm 19.
Ageism has been around long time
"In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.
And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say "raise the carriage shafts" or "trim the lamp wick," but people today say "raise it" or "trim it." When they should say, "Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!" they say, "Torches! Let's have some light!" Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor "the Hall of the Imperial Lecture," they shorten it to "the Lecture Hall," a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained."
Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō 1330 - 1332 AD

My parents are Gen X, me and my older brother are Gen Z.

Parents keep asking, nay, DEMANDING, for us to fix their shit. Then i proceeded to have a fight with my brother about who's responsibility is it to fix it.

Parent's don't know how to use a tax filing website 🤦‍♂️ (Tbf, they don't know how to fill out paper forms either).

The first time we've ever touched a real computer with internet access was around 2010, before that, we were in mainland China and we had no internet (either too expensive, or unavailable as a service in the areas we lived in, not sure which, or my parents are just being cheap)

The difference between Gen X and Millennials is that at around age 35 (circa 2009) I started telling people, who were almost always friends of friends who wouldn't actually hang out with me normally, that I charge $100 an hour. Millennials still do it for free...

I wouldn't even suck dick that low... Why would I take less pay for something I DONT like to do???
- Haha...fair enough. Honestly though, I suspect anything above free would have worked. Some people have absolutely no respect for other people's time. Especially since I don't "fix computers" for a living.
- Boomer-ass comment

Yeah GenX is STILL doing this. Though be of good cheer my millennial brethren...When Skynet takes over, we'll be secure as long as we slave for the overlords. The rest...?

We'll pray for you.

Even Skynet will forget Gen X, trust me.
- "Humanity eliminated!"
  Meanwhile Gen X and New Zealand:
- If you all didn’t want to be the New Zealand of generations you would’ve had your mom give birth earlier or later duh.
  Just like New Zealand should push itself closer to a continent if it wants to be on maps.
  Also as a dum millennial I am always amused when my brethren ask me about social media etc and say I don’t know about tech cause I don’t got an ig account or watever. Bitch please, I have worked in kernel dev I know all the lies we present as a file. I get angy when people that can’t read x86 assembly tell me I’m not technical.

Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.

The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.
- I'm Gen Z and I was still "forced" to fix tech if I wanted to use it. I mean sure, I didn't have to deal with IRQs, setting up autoexec.bat and config.sys, and so on, but if you're not at least a little bit inclined you wouldn't have the patience to fix things even when you're "forced". You'd just give up and move on. There's always something else to do. Things have gotten easier for sure, which is reducing the exposure to "falling in the rabbit hole" but one way or another interested people will get into it.
  It's like how cars are getting simpler to use, but you still have car guys around. We don't say only old people know how to drive stick.
  In any case, there's better things to use as a generational boundary; like how a single G5 piano note will trigger a very specific group of people.
  Edit: I went off on a tangent above and got argumentative. My original comment before this one was intended to be sarcastic but tone doesn't carry well over text. This whole thing isn't really something to argue about so I'll leave it at that.
- The PC revolution started with the Apple 2 in 1977. In the early 80's everyone had a Commodore 64. By the mid 80's everyone had a PC. If you were born in the 80's, you were not editing autoexec files in diapers.
Yeah you clearly have no clue what the 80s and 90s were like for sure

... because their Gen X boss told them what to do ...

So very true.

Gen Z / alpha: "fix the computer? Do you mean the phone?"

If they want to take over from my gen-X ass from doing everyone's fixing shit, I'm all for it.

I wish!

Not in my household.

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…

It wont even be that hard. Take their gibbity away now and a lot of people (young and old) will be helpless. Or, what will actually happen, minorly change gibbity outputs to fulfill your political agenda to become the first trillionaire, all the while the population doesn't know theyre being fed trash.

I'm GenX, I bought my first PC in 1988, and made a living in part, setting up LANs, back when knowing anything at all about computers could get you a job. GenX early adopters taught millennials computers.

There are nerds in every generation.

Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, etc. are marketing bullshit that need to stop being used in the common lexicon.

Agree.. Cringe.
Oh, but not "Boomer" so you can still say "Ok, Boomer?"
They should just be numbered. From best to worst, so Millenials would be 1 and Boomers would be like... 6? 7? How many generations have we had 🤔
- To me, "boomer" is a mentality. Sure, they were the kids born after the WW2 economic boom, I get that. But I feel that the mentality is "old and dying off and not worth considering".
  Based on what I could find, the generations are made up demographics with no real actual definitive delineation. Too many sources can't agree on where one starts and the other ends.
Sauce? I just make stuff and opine freely. I think none of that is bullshit, but I'll debate it on a case-by-case.
- Unfortunately, I can't find anything that really matches my statement, but I recall seeing it somewhere.
  Based on what I could find, the generations are made up demographics with no real actual definitive delineation. Too many sources can't agree on where one starts and the other ends.

Deletes entire hardrive.

Installs arch Linux.

"OK it's fixed, gotta go, see ya!"

As someone already said, you forgot Gen X. When I ask someone to open a command/terminal window, they have no clue what I’m talking about.

Insert I was born into this meme.

Chromebooks and iPads as the primary devices in schools have hurt the kids in my opinion. Too locked down to allow for exploration.

Locked down, sure.
But compared to generations before where a calculator* was rare? It's fine. Interested nerd will still consume knowledge on the good bits and the cycle will continue.
*"You can't count on always having a calculator", the teacher said, obviously not clairvoyant.
- Calculators weren't just rare, they were banned.

This is an older story, but I installed Xubuntu on an ssd in my boomer parents Vista era computer to keep it running. They really didnt know the difference, my mom only played solitaire while Thunderbird was managable for my dad. My millenial neice and nephews had no idea either, I'd find exe files they would download, but noone ever said anything about why they didnt work anymore. They have no idea about how computers work.

I'm not very technical, but I had to move a jumper on my old 386 when I upgraded my modem.

I'm not very technical, but I had to move a jumper on my old 386 when I upgraded my modem
I spent 25 years without remembering that, you sonuvabitch! :-D. Sorry, the PTSD takes over sometimes. Goddamned supra winmodems and hot-glued ISA cards in overpriced junk RadioShack/FutureShop computers....
- Right?
  How about jumpers on hard drives while figuring out interrupts and hard drive/controller card matching (I forget what it was called, but there was something about figuring out the interleave, etc).
  I'm about to have some awful flashbacks, dammit.

Nah, my brother is a mega-nerd that rivals my tech abilities.

TIL I'm a millenial?

Here's your regulation issue avocado toast and collapsed economy. Oh, I see you've already got one of those. Welcome aboard!

It's all perspective lol, how many of us would last a week logging...with out all the modern tech?

Or car mechanics, might not care how the fancy cloud works, but can talk about engines all day long.

The way I see it, we've all got our niche and help each other out with what we dedicate our time to learning.

Gen X are also pretty tech savvy. Let's not pretend like they didn't pave the way for us millennial to learn how to fix computers.

I say, as a tech retarded millennial, but fuck it, I'm right.

I literally just fixed a zoomers laptop last night. Lol

Lost gen got all that kung-fu.

Let’s settle this once and for all.

I’m Gen Z. Quiz me on how computers work.

Edit: I bet I can run circles around some of you millennials :)

Oh you know computers? Name every group policy.
- Fuck you Windows
- Chmod
How does computers work?
- The lowest level is transistors, which are electronic switches that have an on and off state. In other words, they are binary and can represent 0 and 1
  Those get combined into gates of two inputs. An “and” gate outputs 1 if both its inputs are 1. An “or” gate outputs 1 if either of its inputs are 1. And Xor gate outputs 1 if and only if one of its inputs is 1.
  A bunch of other complicated shit happens
  Boom assembly. Don’t try and read or write it, because it will make you wanna quit computers
  C comes into play. Designed to unfuck, assembly so you can actually write readable code. Just don’t forget to release your memory
  More complicated shit. Something about kernels and GNU. Userland vs kernel land? Idk
  ARM might be different since it can run process outside of userland and kernel I think? Something about secure compute/marketing BS
  Inside of user land, we have the web browser. This is there the cool shit happens.
  The browser runs JavaScript, CSS and HTML. JavaScript is a single threaded, but nonblocking language with an even loop and microtask queue.
  Inside of the browser we run React. React is a framework where UI is a function of state and the data flows in one direction. It can also be used to slam your CPU.
  Now that we’re into high level languages, it would only be fun if it looped back around to the beginning. So we invoke some C code that has been compiled to web assembly. Mmmm how efficient
  Edit: I tried to do this all off the top of my head. After writing this, I think I meant user space vs kernel space. Idk if user land is a word
- Spicy rocks
I have a Proxmox server with a random assortment of hard drives and SSDs of various capacities {8TB, 2TB, 2TB, 240GB, 240GB}. I want to create a CephFS filesystem spanning them, using erasure-coded pools in order to maximize capacity (kind of like RAID 5 except without requiring same-sized drives). How do I configure my CRUSH Map in order to accomplish this?
- Lol, you lost me there. I've read up on the various RAID configurations. I've heard about CephFS. I don't know much about it, but I get the sense it's the new kid on the block.
  I actually have a RAID question for you. I want to setup a little RAID array starting with 2 mirrored drives and add more drives later. But it seems there is no easy way to migrate RAID versions? Let's say I want to start with 2, then 3, than 4 drives as stuff fills up. I always want some level of redundancy. And I don't want to use any additional drives aside from the 2, 3, then 4 in the array. Is this possible? Either with RAID or with CephFS?

Am I the only one that demands to be called gen y?

I, a millennial, built computers as a hobby. My daughter, a Gen Alpha, has no concept of computers and no interest outside of school work and tablets.

Use the forbidden fruit or caged reward method to teach.
Start with something like (assuming they have have a low tier phone) giving them a Google Pixel, but with the stock ROM erased, as a random day gift (not birthday or such).
When they ask why it won't turn on right, tell them it's because it needs a ROM to be installed to be used. When they ask what that is, open up Wikipedia for them, along with the GrapheneOS instructions.
You can do it with other stuff too, like "no wifi at home past 7pm", but give them a router that needs something installed to run and say "but if you setup this and plug it in to the internet, it'll be your own wifi you can use at all times" and so on.
- That's an incredibly cool idea.

Man Cody/Katie/Wormbo from Even More News look like they got put through the early 90's prime time TV show filter.

Millennials are supposed to be the generation that ends the capitalist age tribalism propaganda

Tribalism: a strong, sometimes prejudiced, loyalty to a group or tribe, often leading to negative attitudes towards outsiders.
For example:
Millennials are supposed to be the generation that ends the capitalist age tribalism propaganda
- r/iamverysmart

Gen Z lookin fine as hell.

Someone should rename the gens. I never know what people are refering to with the arbitrary names. Maybe gen a, b and c would work.

They did use letters, but they started with Gen X, because X was a cool letter in the 80s. Gen Y was changed to millennials because that was the time period they grew up in. Then Gen Z, which is the end of the alphabet, so they restarted, but with the Greek alphabet for gen alpha.
- don't forget that the people that started naming the generations called themselves the "greatest generation"

interestingly, here in the balkans, there are plenty of gen z techy guys. they aren't full blown engineers but they can fix a lot of basic everyday problems. proud to be slavic lol

Great guy know is an actual boomer, grew up in Canada and then London after the war (dad was an MP). That dude took a passenger ship from Canada to UK and then back.

Was in Jolly ol' England at the right to see the Beatles before they were the Beatles.

He was doing things with palm pilots and computers that no senior citizen should have been doing if this ageist shit was in anyway accurate