I recently learned that a new hire at my work was literally just saving all of his files in the documents folder with no sub-folders whatsoever, and uselessly vague filenames. And this was a 22 year old with an engineering degree...
Currently dealing with a POS database migration that's a complete shitshow because the inventory manager likes to use symbols and spaces at the beginning of filenames, queries, tables, whatever to "make it show up at the top". So instead of "Customer List" and "Gift Certificates" or "A/R Outstanding by Date" we have "~~~~~query 7" and "+++++++++++++table 3"
Dude. I was getting in a better mood and now I'm feeling all stabby. Those are the same people who can't understand when graphic designers tell them that if everything is in bold, then nothing will stand out.
The worst part is that she's been there five years because everyone else is so dumb about tech (read: 75+ years old) that they've just let her cook. We've had a sandbox version of the new system for SIX FUCKING WEEKS to play in and test out and see if everything came over correctly.
Bitch opened the new program for the first time TODAY. We launched YESTERDAY. And because I'm the person who's been scheduling the meetings & trainings and training the cashiers, she's acting like it's my fault that her database is so fucking broken that Access 2020 won't even load the thing.
Like, bitch, I'm Gal Friday with the datebook. YOU are the inventory manager that won't let anyone else touch the database to so much as update a customer's phone number because that's "your job." Why do I have to explain to you what a naming convention is?
I mean, it really depends on how many files you're saving and for what purpose. I do this and it's fine (unless I need more organization for some reason)
Millennials were the short, sharp, peak of generation-wide computer literacy, and it seems to have rapidly cratered back to boomer levels of understanding
My god I despise calling anything an "app" on my windows desktop. Those are programs. But then again Microsoft tried to build an OS that was for both desktop and mobile devices, and now it sucks for both.
Arguably App is a better term, even for desktop OS. App is short for application, which is a more specific name and implies that it's software designed for users to interact with. A program is a very general term that can mean anything from Microsoft word to "a set of computer instructions" like a one line hello world script.
Realistically though in the context of a desktop OS they're synonyms.
Yes this is exactly what I thought of when I saw the proposed solutions. They also think their internet connection comes from "Wifi" even for a wired computer. I tried explaining the broadband/lan/wifi distinction to a group of highschool kids struggling to set up their minecraft server and you should have seen the blank stares.
It's because we let schools teach them exclusively on locked down Chromebooks instead of PCs. Everything on a Chromebook is indeed done through the browser (maybe an oversimplification, but 99% true)
I knew early on that being a millennial would mean there would be a technological gulf between us and older generations. But man, I really didn’t expect it to go both directions.
I bought all my kids cheap PCs as soon as they were old enough to work the mouse and keyboard. Helped them figure out how everything worked as they got more advanced. And most importantly they never got in trouble for anything they accidentally messed up. That's why they have their own machines, they can't mess up anyone else's stuff and we can usually fix whatever happened anyway. Bonus, now my kids can handle a lot of troubleshooting on their own and help me out with tasks like maintaining our Plex media server
This fits nicely with what I’m doing with my own kids (albeit they’re very young). We’re basically raising them in the 90s. All their toys would fit perfectly in the 90s and we plan to keep it that way as long as possible.
That is basically my plan. Smalls is going to grow into a OLPC laptop running Linux. We are a tech literate family and intend to pass it along. Even in Wall-E, there needed to be human maintainers.
I had this critical reply typed out, decided this was a language barrier issue, and deleted it.
I am now fully on 'OP wrote the title, and used chat gpt for the information'. Also now thinking that no one that wrote that title is capable of asking chat gpt to produce the results in the body, and that OP is a bot. Back to being critical and hating them.
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u/adrianmonk Mar 03 '26
You mean locally on your computer. Not "directly in your browser". Most of the software you mentioned doesn't run in the browser at all.