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superstardestroyer · 10 months ago

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Dawg I work in automating email-job-type-tasks and my coworkers - fellow elder millennials - were STUNNED at my solution to create a dynamic folder name. Not the method of making it dynamic, the part that stunned them was the "run cmd.exe: '/c mkdir [filepath]'" and at the point where I was going "yeah no its not wizardry its just like... a vestigial recreation of MSDOS..." I had to confront that frankly computer literacy has never been more in the toilet.

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

#most of these guys know at least SQL and a little VBA we are so cooked as a society #call me the bane of corporate IT the way I once emailed a whole department a javascript file with no extension to get around the very #reasonable filter but like P&P required digital fraud to use a particular note format and doing it by hand was a nightmare while that #webserver was down and a bunch of people listened to IT and cleared their cache as the first step lmfao #terrible news about whats in your fucking cache man fucking hell lmfao #the fact that nobody but me even realized what we actually needed was IN that cache makes me sad tbh #because thats not a very complex thing to know really! helpdesk should have tbh #seconding the typing thing tho - I have severe auditory processing issues and I hate writing up a perfect question on teams only to get a #response of “uhhh can you join my zoom” and then I have to explain it all over again and take notes because it helps me repeat back what I #think I heard to them and its like dude all of this would be so much easier if you'd grown up on forums and learned to type/read faster tha #talking too ngl #I also get a lot of comments from folks once they see my desktop about like oh what games do you play my man I have a potato for a graphics #card! I have a gpu at all because of photoshop and blender this thing does not play much beyond AOE2?#but the idea of even having a desktop pc for regular non-gaming computer use is getting weird to even elder millennials #even when I explain I was a professional freelance artist for a while I get a lot of “but ipad?”#my brother in christ have you ever tried to use the ipad photoshop there's a reason even my tablet is a windows surface #you will pry my dubious copies of non-cc photoshop out of my cold dead hands before I touch procreate Im so sorry but I have a keyboard #shortcut for everything memorized since 2002 and that is the way that shit is going to stay for the sake of my sanity #but you explain that and it blows peoples minds because they maxed out their muscle memory for shortcuts at ctrl+(z/x/c/v/a/s)#if that! like that's among people who have been call center/backoffice folks tbh who mostly CAN type 65WPM and are already freaks for it

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