feliksMar 29
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@feliks I teach college freshmen, and some colleagues and I were just talking about this. we keep having conferences and advice articles about "lean into the fact that this generation is so tech savvy!" meanwhile these kids can't figure out how to save a file from their cloud onto their laptops
Show threadYu Vitaqua fer Chronos (Blurry)Mar 30
@demimom @feliks I think a reason for the rapid loss of tech literacy in the younger folk (I say younger but I'm a Gen Z too :p) is probably because of the switch to mobile devices which made it really easy to do stuff and you could do p much everything on your phone
Show threadOzzelotMar 30
@hourglasses @feliks @demimom I think the opposite: phones made it really hard to do stuff in A Computer Way.
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@ozzelot @feliks @demimom what do you mean by that?
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Show threadOzzelotMar 30
@hourglasses @feliks @demimom Mostly the obfuscation of the filesystem and the walled gardens of apps.
Show threadOzzelotMar 30
@hourglasses @feliks @demimom (Even arguably the popularization of the word "app" itself, though admittedly I was just beginning to learn English at the time the Jobsian smartphone came about, and anyway this issue in itself is not directly related to the actions that are performed by the users of such devices.)
Show threadYu Vitaqua fer Chronos (Blurry)Mar 30
@ozzelot @feliks @demimom when it comes to app stores and such, at least on android i don't think there's much of an issue because you can install any apk without trouble tbh, but obfuscation of the filesystem i don't understand, unless you're talking about how users can't get access to them unless they root their phone and such?
Show threadOzzelotMar 30
@hourglasses @feliks @demimom I mean how the very concept of a hierarchical filesystem is meant to be less perceived by the user. (The inability to access it in full is a part of this, though not quite as immediate as what I had in mind.) Same with third party apps - though it is technically possible to install them (even on iOS these days if you're in the EU), users are encouraged to use Google's/Apple's/Huawei's stores.