Gen-X here. I showed my Gen-Z kid how to build a gaming PC, and then he showed his friend how to do it. So, now, they're the "IT" guys for the group.
The kid has been sitting in front of a computer since he was four. It occurs to me just now that I didn't really teach him anything about file management, drives, etc. He learned the same way I did, I suppose. By wanting to, and searching for answers. He was the first one to switch to Linux a couple of years ago. I don't know his motivation for doing it, but it prompted me to make the switch soon after.
I mean, they're close to illiterate, and can't focus on reading anything longer than two paragraphs, according to what I've read on /r/teachers. Phones don't have apparent file management, so they don't know about it.
But, then you need to have looked into insane conspiracy theories, somewhat. Do you mean making fun of flat earthers, or the people who actually believe birds aren't real, or listening intently to "UFOologists"?
I don't understand the politics. .ml, hexbear, etc. It's like going to Christmas dinner with your girlfriend's family for the first time.
I don't understand the broader structure, something about Mastodon being part of all this? How everything interconnects, etc.
I'm happy enough here, I read, I make comments, I move on. Just like I did on Reddit. It's a bit empty, so many of the communities are ghost towns. I get that I'm supposed to help with that, but I'm not much of a poster.
Learning recently that apparently anyone can track my upvote/downvote stats was offputting. I'm going to stop upvoting and downvoting now, I don't want people making inferences from that, but I'm fine with what I write, because there I always say what I mean.
It's not that I refuse, it's that I've tried many times and failed.
It's a comfort food my mom made when I was a kid, she called it simply beans and hamburger, but it was far from simple. By the time I thought to ask her how she made it, Alzheimer's had taken her memory. I tried scores of times over the years, and never got it right, so I finally gave up and made my own version that was purposely different so as not to remind me of my failure.
Whenever any one of these assholes opens their yap in public, the only response they should hear back is, "You need us. We don't need you. Shut the fuck up."
My not-a-good joke that I'll say anyway is, when someone asks my age, I'll say something obviously too young, like 25. They'll smirk or roll their eyes, and I'll continue, "I am twenty-five years old, but I'm also sixty."
No one has ever laughed. And, that's why I keep saying it. Someday, someone will laugh, I just know it!
It's been at least 15 years since I've bought a can of the stuff. Too much sugar.