I feel like the people I interact with irl don’t even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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    Then why is it that several, peer reviewed, scientific studies have shown, repeatedly, that millennials are better with all forms of technology than boomers, X zoomers or alpha?

    What happens between around 1995 and 2005 was unprecedented.

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      The classic “several studies show” followed by exactly 0 mention of any studies.

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      The studies are on all forms of Computer Technology, not car transmission or TV repair.

      The people that built the home computer and the Internet were all Boomers! Woz is a boomer. Vint Cerf is a boomer.