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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills (www.techspot.com)

submitted 2 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What tech savvy reputation? They doesn't even know what a system file structure is. Neither the article writer, social media =/= tech-savvy.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I was the electronics guy at walmart and just...holy shit the kids buying laptops. A lot didn't even know how to work the keyboard. They would touch a non touchscreen laptop then ask me 'if it isn't touch screen then how do you work it'. Thats just one of a million amazing questions I got.

I know a bit of it is....iono...location bias? Most kids who know computers are probably shopping online or microcenter or something but still.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They doesn't even know what a system file structure is.

I had to talk to somebody about a file that they needed me to look at and they kept saying It's the one in the P drive, and they just could not understand that they needed to give me the absolute file path. This was someone who's an engineer working in a power station, yet they don't understand about drive mappings

[–] Xraygoggles@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

P for power?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 2 months ago

I can't remember that justification for all the drive letters. They had Q for quick at one point, because that drive was an SSD and not an HDD so I guess it was quick.

I think P was the public, as in not an internal drive, and something external contractors could see. But still I needed the actual file path.

[–] sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

I had a girl drop out of my University class because she couldn't figure out what a "file" was or how to "email" it to me. She just kept trying to share her Apple storage with me. Really sad. It's hard to help someone who gets to university without even grasping the basic nature of a file system.