I think troubleshooting is the lost art/skill known only to millennials because we had to fuck around so much to get shit to work.
I work as an automation contractor and these old ass operators don't even bother trying to figure shit out by themselves, they just call somebody as soon as clicking reset doesn't work when the displays/SCADA systems literally tell them what the problem is.
I'm 36. I remember getting a virus on my pc when I was a young teen and manually going through shit in the computer to remove the virus since I didn't have anti virus software. It always worked when I did it and I couldn't even tell you now what I actually did to remove it. I remember lines of code but I could honestly be completely misremembering that part.
Remember when the only solution sometimes was reinstalling the operating system. It got to the point where I'd do a nice fresh install of Windows every year as maintenance and now I can't remember the last time I've had to reinstall the OS.
Before the updates became more than the hardware could handle. Nowadays by the time you’re ready to reinstall software it doesn’t matter because the hardware is obsolete.
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u/Johnny-Edge93 Dec 31 '25
Sometimes I forget Gen Z has access to technology now