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@ikanreed @SwiftOnSecurity Yeah, because the availability of high bandwith allows the propagation of low quality fancy shit in lieu of good writeups and howtos...

Needless to say people don't even get #TechLiteracy taught in #School and so in 2019 I did met a highschool graduate on a dual-study/apprenticeship position who confessed to me that they've never ever used a #PC before.

And I'm not talking about #Linux or a #Mac or #Windows in General but like how to use a #Keyboard & #Mouse...

Like 27 Sep 2023 at 4:24 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social

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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ikanreed @SwiftOnSecurity I was completely speechless because even as a millenial born in 1992 this was more or less unthinkable to me to be possible.

I don't expect much in terms of #TechLinteracy but someone who was deemed eligible for university in 2019 should be able to turn a PC on, enter a password and open #MicrosoftWord or even #NotePad of all things...

Shit that even the #ECDL fake-#certification expects people to be able to do...

Apparently this person never got to touch a PC b4.

27 Sep 2023 at 4:26 | Open on mstdn.social

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ikanreed @SwiftOnSecurity And no, that person wasn't from some marginalized family living on foodstamps or whatever, but like their allowance was likely bigger than my net payout I had on that job...

27 Sep 2023 at 4:28 | Open on mstdn.social