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Yeah, like 'google it' instead of 'look it up'

Ooooo seems like you're personally invested and did not catch the tongue in cheek drift.

Learnt helplessness has become a real thing around the world.

I know a lot of people who could normally wrap their head around basic computing and troubleshooting in the 2000s, who now go into a near panic attack if the apps on their iPhone suddenly look different...

YEP.

I used to work in a library computer lab. It was soul sucking, how many people older than millennials couldn't friggin handle a basic computer. I heard the words "I clicked the 'E' for 'internet'." multiple times A DAY. (Thanks, 1990's Microsoft and No Child Left Behind.)

"CaNt I jUsT uSe My PhOnE?" (Which would be a million more steps on my part...thanks, 2006 apple, and defunding schools.)

The biggest ragebait for me was "I dOn'T kNoW cOmPuTeRs, I'm oLd ScHoOL."

I'm like "PCs have been increasingly commonplace since the mid-1980's. It's currently the 2020's. You're like 56. HOW 'OLD' IS YOUR SCHOOL?! Because somehow you drove a car here!"

I imagine a certain weird kind of "privilege", to have been able to somehow dodge computers and learning this entire time, when they were so often found in homes, schools, and workplaces.

Like it takes significant effort to somehow avoid even an accidental education. HOW?!

It's...infuriating. These rubes can gleefully scroll tiktok and dump all their personal lives into Facebook, but freak out about sending an email.

Many of them were even around to try the Internet during Eternal September and AOL, and now they've exchanged the squishy fat in their skulls for convenient slop.

I'd bend over backwards to patiently teach, but few cared to learn.

Their collective, willful ignorance is why we're fighting a constant uphill battle against attempts to turn the entirety of computing into nothing but a commercialized authoritarian hellscape.

I left that job because if I heard one more "Kids are born so smart with these computers because my (grand)kids can watch their cocomelons all by themselves." I would've snapped and been booked for assault.

Lol /rant

...clearly this is a button for me...I have sought help in the past...

These days I'd expect large number of people in college to not even know what a file system is. I've read articles where professors complain about this.

No no, not like "NTFS / BTRFS / ReiserFS / TempleFS / EXT4..."

...like..."Folders are how you organize files. And you can rename files. The extension tells you what the file is."

Some people also don't care much one way or another. If you swap the icons and set the same home screen, they'll happily use any browser.