Not to mention it’s sand… You can prop up a flat bottomed bottle into it pretty easily.
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Stillwater@sh.itjust.worksto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s4·2 days agoOh boy, sound blaster. As much of a pain getting everything to work back in the day was, I’m also nostalgic for it.
Anyway, generational lines are always blurry. I always find myself identifying with things defined to be part of the generation before or after mine anyway. I would call myself a “90s kid”, being born in the 80s, but I count that as an older millennial.
We got our first family computer when I was in grade school. It didn’t even have Windows, just DOS. So I first learned the command line. When we later got Windows 3.1, we didn’t have a mouse, so I learned to navigate the OS with keyboard only (to this day I have a preference for keyboard navigation). By the time I was in high school I knew how to code, build a computer from parts, etc. And started my life as a pirate with Napster.
My sister is a younger millennial, born in the 90s. By the time she was actively using a computer I think it was probably on XP. She probably wouldn’t know what defragmenting is or how to format a drive. But she didn’t have to learn that stuff.
As a millennial in general it seems we are the only generation who know how computers work as a rule. We had to help our grandparents and parents generation with every technical problem, and figured the kids of the future would surpass us. But now I have play the same tech support role for my kids generation, because they never learned that stuff either.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.worksto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Age verification and the enshitification of streaming will help reduce the decline in computer literacy in under 18s142·2 days agoAs an elder millennial, I believe we are far more computer literate than young millennials.
In the 80s it was a fantasy, not a real prospect
Stillwater@sh.itjust.worksto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place1·11 days agoWe “go” to lots of things that aren’t places. Im going to prove it with this sentence.
I think its referring to the phrase “Behave yourself” - who else am I gonna behave?