this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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As another IT guy I'm getting less and less optimistic about that future.
Software these days """just works""" and so now you have kids and young adults who barely know how to interact with a file explorer, don't know what the different file extensions mean, or even things I would consider basic like the difference between "network connection" and "WiFi".
This is why being an elder millennial kinda gives you the edge, especially if you have been using computers since the 80s. Old MS-DOS machines forced you to understand how directory management worked.
Elder millennials and baby genXers be like
The Oregon Trail Generation will fix your shit!