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[Millennial take] When older generations say "the kids these days are so good with computers", it's because they are incorrectly inferring competence from confi
by Terr_ 2y ago
[Millennial take] When older generations say "the kids these days are so good with computers", it's because they are incorrectly inferring competence from confidence. In a way, the kids are more capable, but mainly because of attitudes rather than knowledge.
The devices the (grand-)kids are using are much more explorable and idiot-proofed. Nobody is going to make a single "dd" typo and erase their drive.
- dijksterhuis 2y ago> Nobody is going to make a single "dd" typo and erase their drive. Alas, how does one learn if one cannot dd the wrong hard drive, wiping all the films you've spent most of the summer illegally downloading at night because you only had a dial up connection at the time.
- devilbunny 2y agoI am very lucky that my youthful years were the mid 90s, when mp3s were still too slow to encode and DVD didn’t exist. I got to accidentally wipe or crash drives on purely experimental computers.
- ksp-atlas 2y agoI mean, I'm considered gen Z and I've definitely dd-ed my fair share of drives...
- DaSHacka 2y agoYou've never truly lived until you've had to recover an accidentally-wiped LUKS header to find that one semester-long final project buried in the depths of your computer's filesystem that's due tomorrow, where of course you never bothered to back it up anywhere :) Perhaps these purported "itoddler" peers of ours were on to something, after all...