Wondering if your typical/average/normie person (millennials and younger) know it or know about it. It’s enabled on reddit and discord?

  • ChexMax@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Yeah, I’m a normie, I’m tech literate adjacent-adjacent, by which I mean I’m here on lemmy rather than Facebook, but no. Me and my peers are not pressing ctrl anything. I don’t even know what gui means. Something user interface? I’m not proud to be this dumb, but I’m pretty sure most “regular” people are in this boat with me. I was the third most tech literate person in my entire office last year with a bunch of millennials simply because I was willing to Google things.

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

      Non-professional: “My computer is making a weird buzzing noise”

      Professional: “What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?”