Look I don’t doubt you’ve met these people but it’s not everywhere. Here in Australia the kids still learn this at school.

My daughter is in primary school and they’ve learned to use a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software etc.

So they can all use a keyboard and mouse and she’s done some school projects as PowerPoint slideshows.

Me and a classmate were absolutely stunned when we saw this girl typing in her password, and using Caps Lock to do uppercase letters instead of shift. We looked at her like, “WTF are you doing?” And she seriously did not know what the shift button was for.

I just don’t know how nobody showed or told her this before, and we’re in college…

My younger brother will not flinch when talking about playing a first person game, (he says it for every game though) he will say a controller is superior.

Now I understand that there is a lot of wiggle room to debate the “best” input method, but I will die on the hill about a mouse being the best (and maybe best possible) input for look/aiming in a first person sense.

The left hand could use an analog input for sure, but digital movement is so rarely an issue it didn’t matter a whole lot.

I will go as far as to throw him a bone and say that controllers are probably the best for something like a platformer (his genre of choice), or a racing game, or in some cases, 3rd person action. I will typically use Rocket League as an example of that, because that game is one of the few that analog movement is much, muuuch more important than analog camera control.

But keyboard and mouse is so widely usable for (and so often a clear front runner) that I have to dunk on him every time he shits on kb+m.

But then I think about my coming up learning and using computers, and our built in familiarity with kb+m, whereas these days, these scrubs are using touchscreens almost exclusively, and a keyboard just looks ancient right off the bat. And of course anything that “old people” use is definitely just totally obsolete and gross as soon as something else comes out.

So I give him consideration in that regard, but it saddens me that he won’t think critically enough to understand the differences, and is not thinking about it. His brain is very literally saying “old way bad, new way good”.

He’s still too young, but damn the communication barrier is frustrating.

My most recent job hunt has me thinking the same. I used to be a dime a dozen, and young folks were real and serious competition in the job market, but I’ve been in IT since before the .com crash and now my skills are once again becoming unique.

I’ve been raising my kids, warning them about the shit state of IT. Maybe I should have been nerding them harder.

I would point out that while general computer use has gotten easier, doing anything advanced has gotten much harder.

I’m glad my grandma can send memes, but I can’t figure out where an app is saving my files because everything is a walled garden!

i think its more complex than this.

people wont know what to do/wont bother if a simple google search doesnt inmediatly has what they want in the first lonk.

I just described a cog as a circle with teeth and my son thought it was funny to call the sticky out bits as teeth.

I’m just hoping he doesn’t ask about crenellations next.