I’m a big fan of PopOS.

Most people advocate for Mint, but when I run Mint, I don’t feel like I’ve made a step forwards in terms of UI. I’m a huge fan of the design choices around PopOS. It just feels much more modern than windows.

what’s sick is that this could actually work in some mad scheme where the wall wart is range extenders and acting as network attached storage

Then why is it that several, peer reviewed, scientific studies have shown, repeatedly, that millennials are better with all forms of technology than boomers, X zoomers or alpha?

What happens between around 1995 and 2005 was unprecedented.

Gas lines in Hawaii

Yeah but like, its not just a personal experience or anecdote.

My brain had to bridge the gap between two different worlds. The year 2000 was more similar to 2025 than the year 2000 was to 1990.

And 1990 was more similar to 1965 than it was to 2005.

We didn’t experience a smooth technological transition; it was an abrupt and whole cloth transformation, and by 2005… well… things actually haven’t change that much since 2005. They’ve changed, but the change isn’t nearly as radical as the change from 1995 to 2005. New versions, faster, smoother, but not really fundamentally different.

Technical transformation follows a consistent pattern of tool innovation, radical adoption, and then, effective stability for long periods of time. Some generations bridge a gap between tool kits and some don’t. Gen-X largely missed out on that transformation. Z caught the tale end. Alpha is growing up in a period of, well, at least platform stagnation.

You just say “bingo.”

ok zoomer. (/s)

But for real. I’m an elder millennial and most of lemmy is millenial-ish. Gen X and boomers, the ones who are on platforms like this, are incredibly rare. Reddit already skewed older than lemmy, and most of us were the earliest users/ power users of Reddit. So there is a reason why lemmy skews tech literate.

Like, we were the first generation to grow up with the internet in the house but also probably still had a land line phone. We had to figure shit out and also got to learn along with the technologies development. My intro to programing was Intro to Flash for making poop games that you might have played, but I also drank crystal Pepsi and could go see a double feature for $1 at the matinee. We bridge the gap between what was an effectively analog world to an entirely digital one.

So you aren’t wrong, but you are also on my lawn.

its because we’re old people.

Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls.

sigh…

here (bru / bruh)

You are only considering half the issue. If you manage to “aquire” 500 in cash…

people just do. it’s not like there is any kind of enforcement.

please just use cans at the beach.

glass ends up broken, inevitably

Aren’t you the liberal? Why aren’t you protesting this?

I haven’t seen a commercial in like… 15 years

So sales are down…

…but prices are up?

People that are struggling to survive day to day don’t have the time to develop a critical analysis of the situation they find themselves in.

Pecker inspector going to be a duty station now eh?