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My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.

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[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe?

I mean theres boomers who were engineers in their youth who are complete idiots with modern technology, especially computers.

But as an elder millenial myself, I can kind of see it happening to me too. While I do enjoy technology and gadgets, I just dont have a need for all of it, nor the time to tinker like I did in my youth. Like I havent bothered at all with apple devices, so Im kinda clueless with how to navigate those things. Last time I used an apple product was around 2008 when I was using MacOS in college.

[โ€“] smackjack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I know people that can't use Windows to save their life, but if you put DOS in front of them, it's like something clicks in their brains and they suddenly remember how to type.