gen-z and alpha don’t know anything about computers.
frankly, i have no idea how anything is even maintained. it’s probably on the backs of millions of first and second-gen immigrants.
some of these dumbasses i work with can’t even navigate basic windows features–and these are college bound young adults.
if you take away their wealth what have most of these celeb billionaires accomplished? zuck created a website that got popular that wasn’t even the first of its kind. it was just popular…
and if it disappeared tomorrow i wouldn’t give two fucks. humanity survived for thousands of years without facebook and instagram and it hasn’t been a benefit to society. it didn’t solve a problem that needed to be solved–we already had myspace and photobucket and the local classified ads.
why are we treating rich people like celebrities just for being rich, especially ones who don’t impact your life in any positive way? that’s the real issue.
i never knew who the CEO or creator of gillette was even though i shave my face every day. that guy deserves more recognition.
this article is stupid for another reason: go on youtube and look up camcorder footage of public high schools in the 90s.
absolutely NOBODY is anxious about getting filmed, and nobody has bad intentions, and nobody would write an article about it.
maybe things ARE worse but maybe the situation is more complex than meta glasses.
you can do whatever you want–you just have to be willing to pay the price. even someone living check-to-check could go back to school if they were willing to work 20 hours a day and possibly live in their car.
…just at the hope of having a house in the suburbs lol.
here’s my perspective as an old man: unless you have enough money to NOT WORK for the rest of your life or are on the track to retire much earlier than 65, you don’t really have shit. at least nothing worth feeling superior about.
you do however have dreams and passions that could possibly be fulfilled despite your financial situation.
the person in the OPs story is just driven by justice and possibly revenge. but it’s not as big a deal if you frame it like that.
the windows operating system moves me at warp speed along the information superhighway. shouting out a belated ‘hi’ to any other travelers zooming past me in this vast frontier.
can journalism please stop digging deep into the cambridge to pull out words like ‘wheedles?’
i’ve been on this earth for almost 50 years, and i’ve read thousands of texts and never seen that word fucking ever.
you should NOT have to look in the dictionary to read pop culture drivel. these dipshits are just trying to justify their privileged educations, and the ironic thing is that none of them can write for shit despite needing a private school/ivy league pedigree to churn out vacuous thinkpieces for teen vogue and futurism (whatever the hell that is).
there’s currently a retired T420 in my home and a stalwart E15 assisting me with my everyday computing needs.
make sure you say ‘thank you for your service’ every morning.
the memory of china spans 3k years. think about that. we dwell hard and long about the history of america and that only goes back a few hundred. and that was a time full of witch hunts, slavery and other controversial topics that’d make a great movie but come off as embarrassing in reality.
we came up with the television and the atom bomb–i say big deal. the chinese were there through thousands of years of advancements and follies, enduring and enduring and keeping their national strength through the unbearable weight of millennia. this is when americans can’t go without their smartphone for 60 seconds and believe in nothing other than legal tender.
industrial capitalism is 200 years old, the chinese are as old as mars in comparison. put that in your pipe and smoke it.
nobody ever says it like that.
we say talk about it in relation to culture and trends, which is more meaningful.
when i was born, in 1981, the civil rights movement wasn’t old enough to drink alcohol. yet when i grew up i had no awareness of this when i interacted with anyone who wasn’t white.
just like someone born in 2001 doesn’t understand life without smartphones.
nobody believed they were poor when that word had more meaning. back in the day poor meant shopping at the salvation army, and it meant driving a 20 year old datsun that wouldn’t start without spraying carburator fluid, and it meant flashing food stamps at the local grocery when a carton of eggs was 39 cents. poor people had to go up on the telephone pole to install cable TV back then, nowadays they can pirate entertainment.
nowadays a poor can still have 5k in credit and drive a BMW that came off the assembly line in the last 10 years. back then, a poor wouldn’t even have a color TV unless they inherited it from their uncle johnny.
the life of the poor hasn’t gotten better in real terms but their lifestyle is much better at projecting class inward and outward.
why is this a controversy though?
this type of bullshit is common across the repair industry but we expect computer techs to be scrupulous? the entire business model likely depends on scamming people.
with cars there’s at least an excuse to put up with it in most cases. it can be labor intensive and require real tools to replace a component like an alternator on many models. even a bold and confident novice is going to feel anxiety when a bolt won’t come off and think to themselves ‘this isn’t worth dealing with.’
but if you can’t figure out how to ‘wipe windows’ or replace a ram stick with the power of the internet at your disposal you deserve to be scammed. do you have a philips head from dollar general, a usb stick and did you play with legos as a child? then you can do 100% of computer repair work.
on top of that, the entire IT methodology is to run a few basic windows commands in the console like ‘sfc /scannow’ and then reinstall windows if it doesn’t work.
it’s in texas though.
now all of a sudden we care about texas? what goes on in texas is as important to me as the affairs of a random tiktok influencer.
we’re fucked no matter if this data center is built or not.
hey, scientist here. i did an extensive study on ram prices that tracked the cost of ram between 2007 and 2026. this may not sound impressive, because all i had to do was look at the average price every year, but trust me, bro, it was difficult.
if you think your average american can read or use microsoft excel you got another thing coming.
these people always look like out of touch assholes lol.
i doubt we have even one working class person left in a position of power.
even the last name langley is telling. i went to american public schools and you’d rarely if ever encounter anyone with a unique last name unless they were hella ethnic, even if that meant french canadian or italian.
the rise of the nepo baby last name.