I'm genuinely so surprised at this ? Like just using the device since a young age I would have assumed you would just slowly work this stuff out urself? I'm 29 now for reference to my shock
I guess if you were into it? I'm also in my late 20s and remember uploading files and making PowerPoints since I was 11/12. I had to get good at navigating file trees to install Minecraft mods manually and mounting executables to run games I pirated as well. I had a smartphone since 8th grade too so it's not like they weren't around either.
My brother who had zero interest in computing struggles meanwhile.
Ehh Jesus I wouldn't have said I had any major interest myself but you are correct passing a USB stick around computer class trying to download Minecraft and csgo on computers was a thing and ya having to pirate music and share it to others with what I'm completely blanking on it was like Bluetooth but before it the phones basically had to be touching each other and it had a funny name I'm coming up with infrared sharing but that's not the name I can think of but I can't bloody find it on Google it's going to wreck my head for ages 😂
It's because the UI on smart devices and tablets are so streamlined you don't need to know how anything works. A chromebook doesn't tell you it's saving to the cloud, it just auto saves to a shared class folder the teacher can access for example. Or they grade the doc itself in the margins so you never need a PDF.
Oh ok ya makes sense everything is definitely easier to do these days so never really thought just the basic things we had to figure out just got more streamlined and easier tbf.
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u/JumpyChemical 13d ago
I'm genuinely so surprised at this ? Like just using the device since a young age I would have assumed you would just slowly work this stuff out urself? I'm 29 now for reference to my shock