people who grew up with phones as the primary computing device are more tech illiterate than those who started with desktop machines. they're inherently locked

people who grew up with phones as the primary computing device are more tech illiterate than those who started with desktop machines. they're inherently locked down, meant for consuming not producing. they're harder to customize, harder to do things in nonstandard ways, harder to learn how they work. e.g. hierarchical filesystems are gradually becoming esoteric knowledge for zoomers because of how much phones and always-online apps obscure it from the user. https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-direc...