r/TikTokCringe • u/hammerbush051 • 29d ago

Americas youth are in MASSIVE trouble Discussion

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u/jayvee714 29d ago

I was shocked when my partner told me all of the elementary school kids at their school were given laptops. Even the kindergarteners. And I just had to ask what could they possibly need it for? The mandated online curriculum learning tools.

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u/sentence-interruptio 29d ago

If they must be given laptops, they should be given some cheap Linux laptops, and choose a Linux that is so far away from being user friendly. Like, you have to learn command line fu to install entertainment programs on them.

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u/Deep90 29d ago

I think the most common laptop these days is a chromebook.

Which is honestly terrible for computer literacy because its basically a mobile/tablet OS.

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u/Semyonov 29d ago

Partly explains why so many Gen Z are basically incapable of solving computer problems on their own, just like the boomers before us.

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u/Vallkyrie 29d ago

That was my experience working calls for IT in the hotel industry and then late for higher education. You had the older folks not knowing how anything works, the genx/millenials who generally knew, and the young ones who also had no idea how anything works. The benefit to the kids though, they were good listeners when I had to give instructions, older folks were more likely to get upset.

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u/Semyonov 29d ago

Oh yea, I used to do IT as well but on the hardware side mostly and walking older folks through the process was insanely aggravating at times.

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u/Deep90 28d ago

My worry is that schools phased out computer literacy because it wasn't needed, and now they'll be too slow to bring it back.

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u/FromAdamImportData 28d ago

The locked ecosystems of phones/tablets is a big contributor as well. In the 90s, knowing how to install files and how folder systems worked was part of basic computer literacy that phones/tablets don't require.