Mastodawn

Folks are gonna need to stop with the "grandma on the computer" to mean uneducated users tropes soon.

I was writing and debugging code to a cassette tape drive before a lot of folks who say this nonsense were even born. I have built my own computers from the case up. My first computer class in college was COBOL. I hard coded websites before there were any tools to do it with.

I'm 52.

What I find is that most of the yunguns have no fucking idea how they work and couldn't find a command line if their life depended on it.

So, yanow, maybe stop.

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Claude

@TheJen I grew up in France. We had Thomson computers in schools in the 80's/90's and I was lucky enough that we had a Minitel at home. I coded my first webpages by hands too, downloaded fansubbed animes on IRC, my first ripped movie was The Matrix in which some of the music had been stripped to allow the file to fit a 650MB CDROM while retaining a watchable quality. I'm 45.