It's not that technology has advanced beyond understanding. But that newer computers have for 20 years been deliberately dumbed down more and more to be consumer devices instead of personal computers (as in, productivity machine on a personal scale). They are not made to be understood.
I have been saying the same thing for years, phones and tablets have gone away with many "computerisms" to the point that people don't know what files are or where are they stored.
Great video. I'm a millennial and grew up tinkering with computers from a very early age. I've always been interested in learning how things work, not just learning to use them. My dad (an older Gen X) and his wife have had kids that are much younger than me and are glued to their tablets and phones and I definitely see the problems you're expressing firsthand. People are always saying how the young kids today are learning technology early and are surpassing us. No, they're not. They are learning to use technology in their daily lives but they aren't learning how any of it works. The moment something breaks, their life is turned upside down.
I routinely have people 35 and under come in to ask me to help them transfer photos off of their iPhones to their computers since they've run out of space.
Which is why it's good to have cheap junky stuff that needs often to be repaired. They learn in the process. And it they destroy something in the process, it is of no real harm. They will also learn the value of good, working things and not take it for granted.
@@JodyBruchonWhich is easy once you learn about how to actually do that. If these young people don’t know how to hook up a USB cable to a computer and transfer their photos onto a folder (and provide a backup copy), we are in serious trouble. Maybe I’m missing something here.
I remember way back to Apple computers, with a printer in the back of the case. No monitor. That was 1980. I have been dealing not with a kid, but my 55 year old sister. She uses a touch screen phone exclusively. We didn't grow up together, otherwise she would have been exposed to all the tech I was. It's like talking to somebody from another world. Her whole technological life was from the perspective of using phones. My life was the opposite, using these huge machines to do all sorts of cool stuff, that would have gotten me beat up in my youth. I have had people tell me your life is so easy you use computers. That was around 35 years ago. What's happening today is what happens when they let the normies in, with really reliable tech. The easy life showed up, eventually somewhere along the line there is going to be a heavy price to pay.
When I first started going on the internet around the mid - late 90’s, there was a barrier to entry. Not only was there pay by hour internet, you had to actually know how to set up dial up. It was tedious and at times stressful. That barrier served as a wall against the normies. Today that barrier no longer exists. You get the lowly people of society able to access the internet with touchscreen clicks, and pretty soon you got dumb people boasting about politics and watching Ben Shapiro neo-con trash.
Nothing much to add but I wanted to tickle the algo a bit. This was a good ramble. I think today's kids who are encouraged to be curious and mischievous will be the only ones who know how anything works in 20 years. My dad taught me some basics about hex editors on an Amiga when I was a kid. Then he showed me how he could make the code wheel for Lucas Arts copy protection a non-issue. It has to start somewhere. 😂
If you have seen how most Millennials behave, they will give kids Apple devices and computers to get them to be quiet. Boomers at least tried to teach their kids how to show the ropes. Millennials are just as brain dead as their Gen Alpha kids. America won’t exist and neither will traditional western society. It will more closely resemble The Matrix, and Orwell’s classic novel.
@@KratostheThird Most of the younger generation already basically live in the Matrix - Except instead of being plugged in by some huge machine system, they voluntarily plug themselves in. We got people practically glued to their cell phones everywhere, blind to their surroundings and anything else other than what is on their screen.
@@irae9They’re not learning anything. I regularly watch older media and it boggles my mind how older people were skilled in carrying a conversation (think talk shows like Johnny Carson). The answer is many of these people didn’t have exceptional communication skills, that was just the world they lived in. Did you think for a second Gen Z is actually smart with their phones? No, they’re not. At least with Boomers, I can carry a conversation with them and they have more personality, which is the result of their upbringing and growing up in a world of analog devices. Gen Z, in contrast, resemble drones that just consume. So they are living in the Matrix. It’s boring, it’s miserable, and unlike the movie franchise, there’s no entertainment at all.
@@KratostheThird The Matrix Trilogy was prophetic really, when you think about when those movies were originally released, and start looking at the parallels in what you see today. It just didn't happen in the same way. Back when the idea of AI was new, we got a whole lot of talk and Sci-fi movies about AI/machines taking over the world, with humans fighting them only to lose. But in practice, what actually happened is that humans themselves have become more and more like machines; you get large organizations pushing increasingly standardized processes because that's easier to manage, and meanwhile even outside of work, people and kids just blindly believing what they see on the news, and plugging themselves into various forms of alternate reality from the media, because 1: As media graphics became increasingly realistic, people started losing the ability to effectively tell the difference, and 2: Kids utilize it as a means of escape, because in many cases their reality is much worse than what they can get from the media(eg video games). Only issue with this is that since escaping into alternate reality doesn't fix the actual problems, they spill over into the media, resulting in a gradual decline of the media they're trying to escape into as well. Video games have gone downhill over the past decade or so .. and social media has a different problem: People often use it as an outlet to discuss issues they're dealing with to other like-minded people. That can be helpful to some degree, but the problem is if *everyone* is doing that, you ultimately end up with a cesspool of negativity that doesn't really help anyone. The overall effect is you get a lot of people who are functionally plugged into The Matrix, whether because they are blind, and/or they are depressed kids looking for something to help them and not finding it.
@@irae9 I remember when The Matrix released. I have made dozens of comments regarding the video Jody linked to on how everything is bland. We are screwed, which is why I plan to either leave western society, or ensure that I won’t see age 50. The problem is young people aged 14 - 25 have no real fighting chance. This is why I brought up Johnny Carson. His show was made in a time when humans were actually humans. It’s why just about everything in that show actually feels human. Early RUclips was all about ‘Broadcast Yourself’, getting every day regular people to post their content. Today? Most of that is buried. And guess what? Just about everything RUclips is giving you is force fed. It’s the same camera setups, the same tired scripts, the same tired monotone Millennial speaking to fulfill an agenda, not because he or she wants to make a video. RUclips is paying these people to be drones, and not actually able to think for themselves. That is why 2024 RUclips is a dystopia, and not like the 2005 - 2009 era of RUclips when people were more human and you could get away with edgy commentary without receiving a strike on your RUclips content. So no, I don’t plan on reaching age 50, because I don’t want my life dictated by a dystopian society.
The timing of this was ironic with the massive blue screen of death issue worldwide due to Crowdstrike. Even as a professional programmer, I have a massive lack of understanding of certain computer functionalities and principles.
@@ryangates6576 all they had to do was check a pointer before dereferencing it. That's it. They trusted a pointer when they shouldn't have and it took down more machines than every virus in history.
I grew up with Windows computers so it's normal for me to use a K/M, but many out of laziness or simply not wanting to use a keyboard then use a touchscreen with a virtual keyboard. It's really not that hard, come on. Society sure is getting dumber and weaker... And oh, go cashless? CrowdStrike made that unavailable for some businesses until it's fixed.
Hiring N E 1 hoo kant type 4 N E sort of 'tek' job just proves the guy is trying 2 burn up $$$ on wasted time =)) No matter how 'fast' they R 'assembling' they lose more than that being useless with a keyboard. 'Can U Type' is qualification #1, like with a model 'is yor nose still attached 2 yor face' LOL OR that may B changing now with #AntiModels, like the literal fat cripples & stuff in some '(((Fa$hun $hoze)))' HAHA =))
Our current level of technology is so many years of invention stacked on top of each other. If had to learn it all bottom up you'll be 70 before you land your first job. You have to start somewhere with a basic level of understanding and learn what is needed to get the job done.
This is an argument to absurdity. I'm not saying that people need to learn how assembly language and CPU microcode work before they use the web browser on their phones.
@@JodyBruchon True, but.... I only do operational administration, but the things I know nothing about are gnawing at me. And the knowledge that 1000's of people work day and night at more things for me not to know about. I can no longer be upset about some rookie helpdesk kid who can't use CMD.
The amount of programmers I have built pc systems for seriously baffles me. (And makes me mad because they make much more money than I do yet have no clue about the thing that makes them money, haha)
The lack of need to learn some under-the-hood or intermediary things is indeed a problem. That's why it's good sometimes for something to not literally do everything perfectly, so you're a bit forced to learn a bit about it. Kind of like Linux is, even today. Unless you have very basic needs (say, just have the network and browser running) and/or are very lucky, chances are you will need to learn a bit about it in order to make something work or to tweak it. The first time I realized it's a problem when things are too smooth and a new generation might not learn the essential was some years ago with Drupal CMS. Drupal back then it got so widespread that there were many people working with it and developing for it. And such, a lot of modules appeared for all kinds of use cases. These modules got better and better. Which made that at some point, most websites could simply be build by installing Drupal, several modules and then to configure the content and the modules. Basically no programming. And I realized that soon all junior developers will only learn which modules there are and how to configure them, and will barely touch the programming side, meaning that they can reach 2+ years of experience working with Drupal and probably won't be able to create a new module (not to speak of chaging Drupal internals) by themselves, except for the very basic cases. And that's certainly a problem long term. Fortunately, the web keeps evolving ... well, keep changing (evolving seems too positive) so this didn't last long, since everybody wants the latest stupid fad, which means new stuff is still needed to be built.
Regardless, it looks stupid and Windows forces you to hold your hand. Windows 10 is the last Windows I will be bothering with. I think I’ll stick with Linux even if it’s a dead end and certain people are invading it. At least it’s not a faceless trillion dollar organization running it.
Technology is kind of like magic in how it is possible through many levels of abstraction. I’ve tried learning a programming language over the years, but I never got far in being able to do anything useful with it. Maybe it was that every book was filled with errors in the example code or omissions in how fundamental parts of the language worked, but I didn’t know any of that until years later after already deciding it was too complex and abstract for me to be able to do. I’ve reached the point now where I want to learn programming again so I can make my own tools to solve a bunch of my own data problems, because I haven’t found existing software that does what I need, so my goals are to start with one tool and then work towards more complex problems and use that knowledge to improve the earlier tools 😅
It makes way more sense 2 try & clearly define yor tool ideas & share them with many programmers 2 C if N E will pick it up =) 'Media Player Classic' is based on my ideas & iFound the guy 2 do it but Reaper & others that do things iAsked 4 iAm not sure az no 'confirmaiton' but my original suggestion in the 'Jesusonic' daze B 4 it existed woz 2 combine the FX stuff with Winamp 4 an editor with Audiotrak 'DirectWire' style anything-to-anything routing so can have a flexible 'DAW' with skin options. It is not a waste of time. There R several variations on MPC & it's very popular, though 'PotPlayer' has surpassed it as a 'all-in-one' thing. iUse stuff with FFDShow & AC3Filter & PotPlayer already steals a lot from FFDShow, but wrongly limits it like can't rearrange the filters or do custom gamma curves, etc. = WTF? It's not like it even matters that they R stealing it as they R in Korea so laws don't apply, so Y not steal it totally? =)) "Woo we're gonna' take it but cripple it various ways 4 no gud rezon' LOL
@@JodyBruchon Wen iTry 2 get VirtualBox 2 browse the net, it's a #TrainWreck =( Would B GR8 if U could do videos on how 2 use VIrtualBox 2 do fast web browsing with 'Direct-X' / video acceleration & smooth audio playback so we can (4 example) continue using Windows XP E Z W/out the need 2 download videos 1'st 2 C them right. iWill move 2 'Ubuntu Studio' or something B 4 iWould ever use another OS from Micro$hit as my 'daily driver'. The file management & program handling interface is way 2 $abotaged 4 me, but so is LinKrap, so the ideal thing maybe is 2 port the 'Explorer' & 'Save As' & 'Task Bar' & 'Quick Launch' & 'Systray' of XP (with QTTabBar & JSPager virtual desktop manager & other bits installed) as some kind of 'modular' thing like VMware 'ThinApp' (??) =) iCan happily pay 4 this if it were available =D That way could (4 instance) run (maybe?) Linux or whatever but without all the #CrippleWare HellScape of 'no folder tree 4 U' & counter-intuitive 'Werx 4 MEEEE HAHAHA #Learn2Terminal U #PeasantTrash' #TrollTard nonsense that is the #LinuxTard community =)) N E waze, mail me @ 'balkanguy (at) live (dot) com' if interested. i$ent U an E-Mail 2! =;-o
Give a caveman a laptop, he'll thank you for the coconut opener
LoL
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifestyle.
What a timing, amid the CrowdStrike screw up.
It's not that technology has advanced beyond understanding. But that newer computers have for 20 years been deliberately dumbed down more and more to be consumer devices instead of personal computers (as in, productivity machine on a personal scale). They are not made to be understood.
I have been saying the same thing for years, phones and tablets have gone away with many "computerisms" to the point that people don't know what files are or where are they stored.
Great video. I'm a millennial and grew up tinkering with computers from a very early age. I've always been interested in learning how things work, not just learning to use them. My dad (an older Gen X) and his wife have had kids that are much younger than me and are glued to their tablets and phones and I definitely see the problems you're expressing firsthand. People are always saying how the young kids today are learning technology early and are surpassing us. No, they're not. They are learning to use technology in their daily lives but they aren't learning how any of it works. The moment something breaks, their life is turned upside down.
I routinely have people 35 and under come in to ask me to help them transfer photos off of their iPhones to their computers since they've run out of space.
Which is why it's good to have cheap junky stuff that needs often to be repaired. They learn in the process. And it they destroy something in the process, it is of no real harm. They will also learn the value of good, working things and not take it for granted.
@@JodyBruchonWhich is easy once you learn about how to actually do that.
If these young people don’t know how to hook up a USB cable to a computer and transfer their photos onto a folder (and provide a backup copy), we are in serious trouble.
Maybe I’m missing something here.
I remember way back to Apple computers, with a printer in the back of the case. No monitor. That was 1980.
I have been dealing not with a kid, but my 55 year old sister. She uses a touch screen phone exclusively. We didn't grow up together, otherwise she would have been exposed to all the tech I was. It's like talking to somebody from another world. Her whole technological life was from the perspective of using phones. My life was the opposite, using these huge machines to do all sorts of cool stuff, that would have gotten me beat up in my youth. I have had people tell me your life is so easy you use computers. That was around 35 years ago. What's happening today is what happens when they let the normies in, with really reliable tech. The easy life showed up, eventually somewhere along the line there is going to be a heavy price to pay.
When I first started going on the internet around the mid - late 90’s, there was a barrier to entry. Not only was there pay by hour internet, you had to actually know how to set up dial up. It was tedious and at times stressful.
That barrier served as a wall against the normies. Today that barrier no longer exists. You get the lowly people of society able to access the internet with touchscreen clicks, and pretty soon you got dumb people boasting about politics and watching Ben Shapiro neo-con trash.
Nothing much to add but I wanted to tickle the algo a bit. This was a good ramble.
I think today's kids who are encouraged to be curious and mischievous will be the only ones who know how anything works in 20 years.
My dad taught me some basics about hex editors on an Amiga when I was a kid. Then he showed me how he could make the code wheel for Lucas Arts copy protection a non-issue. It has to start somewhere. 😂
If you have seen how most Millennials behave, they will give kids Apple devices and computers to get them to be quiet.
Boomers at least tried to teach their kids how to show the ropes. Millennials are just as brain dead as their Gen Alpha kids.
America won’t exist and neither will traditional western society. It will more closely resemble The Matrix, and Orwell’s classic novel.
@@KratostheThird Most of the younger generation already basically live in the Matrix - Except instead of being plugged in by some huge machine system, they voluntarily plug themselves in. We got people practically glued to their cell phones everywhere, blind to their surroundings and anything else other than what is on their screen.
@@irae9They’re not learning anything.
I regularly watch older media and it boggles my mind how older people were skilled in carrying a conversation (think talk shows like Johnny Carson). The answer is many of these people didn’t have exceptional communication skills, that was just the world they lived in.
Did you think for a second Gen Z is actually smart with their phones? No, they’re not.
At least with Boomers, I can carry a conversation with them and they have more personality, which is the result of their upbringing and growing up in a world of analog devices.
Gen Z, in contrast, resemble drones that just consume. So they are living in the Matrix. It’s boring, it’s miserable, and unlike the movie franchise, there’s no entertainment at all.
@@KratostheThird The Matrix Trilogy was prophetic really, when you think about when those movies were originally released, and start looking at the parallels in what you see today.
It just didn't happen in the same way. Back when the idea of AI was new, we got a whole lot of talk and Sci-fi movies about AI/machines taking over the world, with humans fighting them only to lose. But in practice, what actually happened is that humans themselves have become more and more like machines; you get large organizations pushing increasingly standardized processes because that's easier to manage, and meanwhile even outside of work, people and kids just blindly believing what they see on the news, and plugging themselves into various forms of alternate reality from the media, because 1: As media graphics became increasingly realistic, people started losing the ability to effectively tell the difference, and 2: Kids utilize it as a means of escape, because in many cases their reality is much worse than what they can get from the media(eg video games). Only issue with this is that since escaping into alternate reality doesn't fix the actual problems, they spill over into the media, resulting in a gradual decline of the media they're trying to escape into as well. Video games have gone downhill over the past decade or so .. and social media has a different problem: People often use it as an outlet to discuss issues they're dealing with to other like-minded people. That can be helpful to some degree, but the problem is if *everyone* is doing that, you ultimately end up with a cesspool of negativity that doesn't really help anyone.
The overall effect is you get a lot of people who are functionally plugged into The Matrix, whether because they are blind, and/or they are depressed kids looking for something to help them and not finding it.
@@irae9 I remember when The Matrix released.
I have made dozens of comments regarding the video Jody linked to on how everything is bland.
We are screwed, which is why I plan to either leave western society, or ensure that I won’t see age 50. The problem is young people aged 14 - 25 have no real fighting chance.
This is why I brought up Johnny Carson. His show was made in a time when humans were actually humans. It’s why just about everything in that show actually feels human.
Early RUclips was all about ‘Broadcast Yourself’, getting every day regular people to post their content. Today? Most of that is buried. And guess what? Just about everything RUclips is giving you is force fed. It’s the same camera setups, the same tired scripts, the same tired monotone Millennial speaking to fulfill an agenda, not because he or she wants to make a video. RUclips is paying these people to be drones, and not actually able to think for themselves.
That is why 2024 RUclips is a dystopia, and not like the 2005 - 2009 era of RUclips when people were more human and you could get away with edgy commentary without receiving a strike on your RUclips content.
So no, I don’t plan on reaching age 50, because I don’t want my life dictated by a dystopian society.
I like your shirt.
One of the few that I wish I'd bought two of!
The timing of this was ironic with the massive blue screen of death issue worldwide due to Crowdstrike. Even as a professional programmer, I have a massive lack of understanding of certain computer functionalities and principles.
@@ryangates6576 all they had to do was check a pointer before dereferencing it. That's it. They trusted a pointer when they shouldn't have and it took down more machines than every virus in history.
"I don't respond very well in the throat department."
I bet.
@@xlerb1637 gluck gluck
@@JodyBruchon :)
I grew up with Windows computers so it's normal for me to use a K/M, but many out of laziness or simply not wanting to use a keyboard then use a touchscreen with a virtual keyboard. It's really not that hard, come on.
Society sure is getting dumber and weaker... And oh, go cashless? CrowdStrike made that unavailable for some businesses until it's fixed.
Hiring N E 1 hoo kant type 4 N E sort of 'tek' job just proves the guy is trying 2 burn up $$$ on wasted time =)) No matter how 'fast' they R 'assembling' they lose more than that being useless with a keyboard. 'Can U Type' is qualification #1, like with a model 'is yor nose still attached 2 yor face' LOL OR that may B changing now with #AntiModels, like the literal fat cripples & stuff in some '(((Fa$hun $hoze)))' HAHA =))
Our current level of technology is so many years of invention stacked on top of each other. If had to learn it all bottom up you'll be 70 before you land your first job. You have to start somewhere with a basic level of understanding and learn what is needed to get the job done.
This is an argument to absurdity. I'm not saying that people need to learn how assembly language and CPU microcode work before they use the web browser on their phones.
@@JodyBruchon True, but.... I only do operational administration, but the things I know nothing about are gnawing at me. And the knowledge that 1000's of people work day and night at more things for me not to know about. I can no longer be upset about some rookie helpdesk kid who can't use CMD.
The amount of programmers I have built pc systems for seriously baffles me. (And makes me mad because they make much more money than I do yet have no clue about the thing that makes them money, haha)
Totally agree
The lack of need to learn some under-the-hood or intermediary things is indeed a problem.
That's why it's good sometimes for something to not literally do everything perfectly, so you're a bit forced to learn a bit about it.
Kind of like Linux is, even today. Unless you have very basic needs (say, just have the network and browser running) and/or are very lucky, chances are you will need to learn a bit about it in order to make something work or to tweak it.
The first time I realized it's a problem when things are too smooth and a new generation might not learn the essential was some years ago with Drupal CMS. Drupal back then it got so widespread that there were many people working with it and developing for it. And such, a lot of modules appeared for all kinds of use cases. These modules got better and better. Which made that at some point, most websites could simply be build by installing Drupal, several modules and then to configure the content and the modules. Basically no programming. And I realized that soon all junior developers will only learn which modules there are and how to configure them, and will barely touch the programming side, meaning that they can reach 2+ years of experience working with Drupal and probably won't be able to create a new module (not to speak of chaging Drupal internals) by themselves, except for the very basic cases. And that's certainly a problem long term. Fortunately, the web keeps evolving ... well, keep changing (evolving seems too positive) so this didn't last long, since everybody wants the latest stupid fad, which means new stuff is still needed to be built.
I don’t even know I want to get to 50 years old.
This kinda makes me question if the decisions to make windows look more stupid is a result of catering of gen z and beyond
Regardless, it looks stupid and Windows forces you to hold your hand.
Windows 10 is the last Windows I will be bothering with. I think I’ll stick with Linux even if it’s a dead end and certain people are invading it. At least it’s not a faceless trillion dollar organization running it.
Technology is kind of like magic in how it is possible through many levels of abstraction.
I’ve tried learning a programming language over the years, but I never got far in being able to do anything useful with it. Maybe it was that every book was filled with errors in the example code or omissions in how fundamental parts of the language worked, but I didn’t know any of that until years later after already deciding it was too complex and abstract for me to be able to do.
I’ve reached the point now where I want to learn programming again so I can make my own tools to solve a bunch of my own data problems, because I haven’t found existing software that does what I need, so my goals are to start with one tool and then work towards more complex problems and use that knowledge to improve the earlier tools 😅
It makes way more sense 2 try & clearly define yor tool ideas & share them with many programmers 2 C if N E will pick it up =) 'Media Player Classic' is based on my ideas & iFound the guy 2 do it but Reaper & others that do things iAsked 4 iAm not sure az no 'confirmaiton' but my original suggestion in the 'Jesusonic' daze B 4 it existed woz 2 combine the FX stuff with Winamp 4 an editor with Audiotrak 'DirectWire' style anything-to-anything routing so can have a flexible 'DAW' with skin options. It is not a waste of time. There R several variations on MPC & it's very popular, though 'PotPlayer' has surpassed it as a 'all-in-one' thing. iUse stuff with FFDShow & AC3Filter & PotPlayer already steals a lot from FFDShow, but wrongly limits it like can't rearrange the filters or do custom gamma curves, etc. = WTF? It's not like it even matters that they R stealing it as they R in Korea so laws don't apply, so Y not steal it totally? =)) "Woo we're gonna' take it but cripple it various ways 4 no gud rezon' LOL
Is there a place where we can learn about more complex tech stuff like the wifi stuff you mentioned?
@@anonman8661 I'm not sure. It seems like most places these days prefer to do news and politics over education.
@@JodyBruchon I'll keep looking then
@@JodyBruchon Wen iTry 2 get VirtualBox 2 browse the net, it's a #TrainWreck =( Would B GR8 if U could do videos on how 2 use VIrtualBox 2 do fast web browsing with 'Direct-X' / video acceleration & smooth audio playback so we can (4 example) continue using Windows XP E Z W/out the need 2 download videos 1'st 2 C them right. iWill move 2 'Ubuntu Studio' or something B 4 iWould ever use another OS from Micro$hit as my 'daily driver'. The file management & program handling interface is way 2 $abotaged 4 me, but so is LinKrap, so the ideal thing maybe is 2 port the 'Explorer' & 'Save As' & 'Task Bar' & 'Quick Launch' & 'Systray' of XP (with QTTabBar & JSPager virtual desktop manager & other bits installed) as some kind of 'modular' thing like VMware 'ThinApp' (??) =) iCan happily pay 4 this if it were available =D That way could (4 instance) run (maybe?) Linux or whatever but without all the #CrippleWare HellScape of 'no folder tree 4 U' & counter-intuitive 'Werx 4 MEEEE HAHAHA #Learn2Terminal U #PeasantTrash' #TrollTard nonsense that is the #LinuxTard community =)) N E waze, mail me @ 'balkanguy (at) live (dot) com' if interested. i$ent U an E-Mail 2! =;-o