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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just Spotify, they haven't ruined their service yet. I will never be one of those boomers who manually download all their mp3s and think normal people want to transfer files around between devices.

[–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think the average baby boomer knows how to download an mp3 or play it on a smartphone.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

who do you think are the people filled in IRC chatrooms? anyone under 40?

[–] xeekei@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Gen X: still the forgotten generation.

[–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, (wild estimation) 0.5% of boomers worked in various fields of computer science and were absolutely brilliant with what they accomplished. They built the foundations of everything that we used today, and enabled us to work at levels of abstraction that make our lives way easier.

But still, the average boomer needs to call their grandkids over to switch their TV from HDMI 1 to HDMI 2. I’m being a little bit hyperbolic, but the boomers who didn’t work in tech spent most of their adult lives with virtually no exposure to the computing metaphors that younger generations understand implicitly.

The difference between them and younger generations is that the average millennial grew up using computers, and so the average millennial had vastly better computer literacy.

[–] lemming007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not all boomers who manually download mp3s transfer them around. I'm one of those "boomers" (I'm in my 30s) that download their mp3s because I like to own my stuff. I then stream it to my devices using a selfhosted media server without transferring anything.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah that sounds like a very painful experience