#but it is important to see that knowing hardware still leaves you vulnarable to tech companies shitty software policies

[senshisdaughter]

I think a interesting part of this problem is that, because companies like Intel and Samsung still need to appear better then all other options theres a lot of promotion for gen alpha/z to "know" hardware, especially in gamer spheres. Not exactly what each part does, because that would likely not be that good for the fompanies, but to be able to identify whats a "good" or "bad" gpu, cpu or anything like that

So you end up with people who can tell you whats the better cpu in the market or how much ram you need for something but have no idea what a BIOS or a comand promt are

And that creates such a disconect that it weirds me out quite a bit. I can ask my younger cousin about cpus and graphic cards and mouses and keyboards and all that stuff and ge KNOWS, but he has no idea that a computer can exist without windows, or how to actually 100% unnistal things.

And that creates a demographic that can be very easily manipulated and controlled, because they THINk they understand phones and computers, because other people think they understand phones and computers, but they are uncapable of doing anything that requires messing with windows files or factory reseting stuff

another thought about "gen z and gen alpha don't know how to use computers, just phone apps" is that this is intentionally the direction tech companies have pushed things in, they don't want users to understand anything about the underlying system, they want you to just buy a subscription to a thing and if it doesn't do what you need it to, you just upgrade to the more expensive one. users who look at configuration files are their worst nightmare