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by kjkjadksj 708 days ago
Gen z is more tech illiterate than you would think. I work with a few student interns in this cohort sometimes. “Copy and paste that into notepad and save it as a text file then email it to me” “uhhhh”

These kids grew up on the iphone or gsuite. They have little concept of a filesystem much less how the OS works. Its a black box. Teaching command line or writing scripts takes a lot of effort just to break out from their own wrong internal worldview of how a computer works. It’s kind of disappointing seeing what tech companies have done to dumbify this generation in terms of tech literacy.