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Let me guess: they're talking about Millennials, and are entirely forgetting about Gen X once again.

We got a new kid around 19 working at our office for processing data and I hate how true this is. The amount of times I've had to say "No, you have to double click to open folders" is entirely too many. Either that or "You have to actually right click on the icon you want to copy you can't just click anywhere on the screen."

I'm old, Gandalf. I may not look it, but I feel this meme in my bones.

Computers have been dumbed down and simplified for the masses. When I was a kid a computer did not cooperate until you raised your voice.

Are they the same generation whose parents said “they’re really good with computers …they go on the iPad all the time”?

I actually thought I am part of this blessed generation that can use a computer. But rotating a PDF? That beats me.

Edit: In Okular it's actually easy to find this function. I was never looking for this for my whole life.

I can:

• Accomplish damn near anything from a command line
• Write machine code
• Remember a fairly broad swath of special character altcodes without looking them up
• Disassemble damn near any computer or other machine, and stand a good chance of putting it back together

But also:

• Use modern programming languages, including object oriented paradigms
• Actually read what is on my screen and comprehend it, including error messages
• Understand and operate any arbitrary interface without having to have it explained to me by rote

Behold my mixture of skills, and tremble.