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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Every now and then I read one of those panicked articles raising the alarm about how some member of the young generation doesn't understand folder structures or whatever, and I panic for a second because what if an entire generation grows up not knowing how to use a computer? But then I remember that I've read stories upon stories from Reddit and assorted boomer sites from the 90s and aughts about the exact sort of tech support problems described in that article, and that I've never met someone my age or younger who can't touchtype at least 60 words a minute, and that my sister for whom a command line is the scariest thing in the universe figured out how to install ReShade for a DirectX game she liked all on her own, and that our parents talked the exact same way about cars, and I calm down.