I know more boomers who can't figure out why the computer wont turn on if you flip the little switch than I know Millennials who can't drive stick. Hell I know folks younger than our millennial gen who can drive stick. But show me one boomer who can naviagte a torrent site, without getting a virus.
My Silent gen Dad can, and growing up with a father that was ahead of the game was a pain in the ass. On the otherhand, I'm not really worried about him falling for a scammer.
A silent genner? Dude is a dinosaur basically, where did he learn to be so tech savvy?
MACSOG- CIA- VP of software company. The response to the first time I got caught sneaking out was motion detector flood lights in the late 1980s. He had a remote that could shut down any electronic in the house by the time I was in middle school. I'm a Gen Xer w a millennial dad who loved tech.
I'm so sorry. My gen X parents were equal to boomers in the tech dept. So I got away with so much when it came to electronics.
It also meant we had tech long before anyone else, and you just went over to our friend's houses to do shit. It probably kept us alive, because as an Xer, most of my childhood friends are gone due to the stuff they got into. And you just learned the dead zones if wanted to get out.
Lol its like the opposite issues I faced, though I do have regrets about introsucing them to the internet. They fell down the right wing chriatofascist pipeline 😓
Dad is as liberal as it comes. I tried/failed to block MSNBC bc Maddow riled him up so bad. It lasted 2 days and he's still mad I thought it would work. As a GenXer, we're some of the worst due to our shitty schooling/neglect, so don't feel too bad about the intro. They would have found it anyway.
You're likely right, but still, its really on another level when it jusy so happens I represent nearly everything they hate about the liberal left.
Trans, queer, socialist, anarchist.
They feel that way because the first 2 are genetic and they know on some level at least one side of the family is representing. My dad's aunt was a nun, my aunt was a Bulldyke, and my sister is a divorced lesbian w a kid All three are the same gene makeup, just different societies.
Yup! 100%. In fact, in 1999 when I was 15 my dad made me learn how to drive on a manual transmission car. I didn’t even own an automatic car until my son was born when I was 33. The only reason I don’t own a manual now is because of all of the dad cars that exist, none of them come with a stick. :(
My dad drove a 95 Nissan pickup that he taught me how to drive stick with. Car I drive now is a automatic, but it's my partners, who got it from their grandfather when he passed.