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I think this is partly why older folks often say something along the lines of "you young people are so /good/ at technology". We've had so much exposure that we

I think this is partly why older folks often say something along the lines of "you young people are so /good/ at technology". We've had so much exposure that we've built up a mental model of how even non-intuitive / hard to discover things should work. Sometimes when I update my phone after a number of years or try and operate someone else's phone when they ask for me to "fix this problem" it's hard because of that exact problem, I don't know where or how to access the thing I want. But it's not all bad; you can't put heaps of buttons on a mobile interface because of the limited screen size and lack of precision with pressing them, so some amount of 'magic' and hiding is necessary imo.

asdff 6y ago
I thought about that, why was I good at technology relative to my parents? It was because I had no job, and little responsibility, so I had the free time to go through every single setting in the control panel and see what it did, or every single setting in my phone and poke around, and it was only after spending that time that I actually became 'good at technology.' In contrast to my father, who gets off work and tries to do something with his computer and has an issue. It's simply faster for him to call me from my room and have me, whose invested tens of hours poking through all the pokable things already to solve his issue. Simply put, between working, commuting, being an adult, etc, my father had no real time to invest this time in pure discovery, when what little precious time he had as an adult had to be divied up in the most valuable way. I see that now as an adult, free time is precious. You don't have the time to learn like you did as a kid, when you could just throw 8 hours at something. I barely find the time to play my guitar for a half hour a day between working and being exhausted after the working day. I can't imagine having to learn how to use a computer, at this age. I simply have no free time to invest in such with all the other things life throws at you to prioritize, and what free time I do have I'm mentally tapped at that point, and I fully expect in a few decades at this rate to become a technology dinosaur just like my parents and grandparents were.

asdff 6y ago

I thought about that, why was I good at technology relative to my parents? It was because I had no job, and little responsibility, so I had the free time to go through every single setting in the control panel and see what it did, or every single setting in my phone and poke around, and it was only after spending that time that I actually became 'good at technology.' In contrast to my father, who gets off work and tries to do something with his computer and has an issue. It's simply faster for him to call me from my room and have me, whose invested tens of hours poking through all the pokable things already to solve his issue. Simply put, between working, commuting, being an adult, etc, my father had no real time to invest this time in pure discovery, when what little precious time he had as an adult had to be divied up in the most valuable way. I see that now as an adult, free time is precious. You don't have the time to learn like you did as a kid, when you could just throw 8 hours at something. I barely find the time to play my guitar for a half hour a day between working and being exhausted after the working day. I can't imagine having to learn how to use a computer, at this age. I simply have no free time to invest in such with all the other things life throws at you to prioritize, and what free time I do have I'm mentally tapped at that point, and I fully expect in a few decades at this rate to become a technology dinosaur just like my parents and grandparents were.