I used to think it was a meme too and I still think it is to a point. But several of my recent jobs were at universities and I have met several people younger than me now who cannot read an analog clock, use a mouse, copy a file to a flash drive, or make change. To say nothing of their ability to find information that can’t be googled (like the location of a classroom). I have really begun to feel that the general population has absolutely failed GenZ and I really hope we can break the pattern before GenAlpha gets much older.

Damnit… I came to comment Suburuntu.

Fun fact: 7 was the last version MS produced under the injunction from the late 90s that prevented them from bundling required services with the OS. They actually had MS accounts (then called .NET Passports) ready to track activation and for login on XP but had to make them optional.

That there is no one explanation is kinda why the site exists, that is the punchline as it were.

The answer you are probably looking for surrounds the fact that Nixon was just as bad a Regan.

This is achieved through the promotion of brain reorganisation. This capacity is not necessarily restricted to infancy, and is typically retained by the individual throughout the lifespan.

Source

I’m in my 30s and I, briefly, lived in a house with no running water some years ago. I agree that most people don’t realize how far behind the rural areas are.

Well yeah, the Obama phone thing was actually trying to help people.

Sort of…

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Age has nothing to do with ability to learn, brain plasticity is a myth. The reality is that anybody who can spend 6-8 hours a day learning is going to learn faster than those who have to do other things all day.

I appreciate your attempt to alleviate my confusion but you have really only covered what I already understood. I’m confused as to why this is something somebody would want to tell other people about. Why did they even agree to be on the panel if they were just going to be an ass to people who may have even paid money to stand in line and ask their pedantic questions? At the end of the day it really seems like somebody bragging about taking their annoyance out on a random fan.

Im not being pedantic, that’s literally the idea. Most talk about both simply because most can be had without upfront cost, but that isn’t necessarily a requirement.

My ancestors were forced from their land by the American government in an event known as the Trail of Tears. So this is kinda a mixed bag for me really…

Linux, and other FOS software, are free as in freedom not free as in free beer.

People who have these complaints often have forgotten how hard it was to learn Windows and how hard it was to find info before XP lasted for 14 years. These are all the same problems you would have if you had never seen Windows before. For instance I don’t think you would be complaining about case sensitivity if you had not used a system that wasn’t first. Also, Windows itself is a “skin” on older OSs; Windows retained DOS compatibility for years and many of it’s quirks, like the case sensitive thing, are a result of that. Not to mention that the WinNT kernel was built on from the Win32 kernel (itself an upgrade of the Win16 kernel) and IBM’s OS/2. There are literally screens in Windows 11 that are the same screen they were in Windows 95, the format dialogue for instance.

What about it? Pointing out what confused me doesn’t make me any less confused.

I did. Were they forced to be there?

I don’t think people would go to one unless they cared which is part of why I am confused. Out of context this just comes off as somebody bragging about being an ass to a random fan.

Exactly. But most people just say 8-5 is 8 hours without thinking about it.

Finally somebody who properly did the math and understands that 8-5 is not 8 hours.

I’m confused. I get the The Exorcist reference but I don’t get why it’s relevant here or why this person is going places where people can talk to them about the game if they don’t want people talking to them about the game.