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To be fair, I don't actually know how to rotate a pdf. I re-learn it every few years, then immediately forget it again.

Goomers and hoomers and foomers and schroomers are all alike and your generation is smarter.

I am gen z and know how to use a computer

Most of us should have been taught how to use computers in school then we expand our knowledge from there on our own

Is this an american only problem?

I thought they would be wiz kids...

Gen X checking in here. I’m actually happy to be left out of the memes. Carry on.

As a dev, the divide between apps users and computer software users is fascinating. My mom can do things in instagram or whatsapp that I didn't even know possible.. but put her in front of a modern computer with a simple application and she's completely lost! I try to explain that it's exactly the same as her phone its just a larger screen/physical keybaord with different apps, doesn't seem to help.

Yes you are a monolith block when born in a certain age group.
Nothing wrong with that statement apparently.
Divide and conquer.

I felt like an idiot the other day. Customer sent in a pdf with confidential information. I needed to upload the document without the confidential information but only have the free Adobe. I normally redact the information in paint but paint wouldn't accept the file format.

I ended up asking a gen x teammate and she instantly told me to use the snipping tool which solved my problem. Thank you Gen X coworkers

Never judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.

Helped a Zoomer coworker build a PC for gaming and was then shocked watching him try to navigate Windows and being confused on basic things. Then I realized that, yeah, he probably never really used a desktop for much unlike us Millennials who grew up sitting at desks. He’s doing much better a couple years later so they are definitely able to adapt though!

Guess me and my partner are exceptional zoomers? Them having a diploma in computer science and i am a software developer

Eh PDFs are just annoying to deal with. I could do this stuff the adobe acrobat when I had the paid version in school but I'm cheap and no longer have it. If I'm feeling desperate I'll find the ghostscript command that does it otherwise I just do something horrible (for example scanning to jpeg rather than PDF creating an HTML page with both images and printing that to PDF)

From writing a limited amount of code to generate PDFs from scratch the standard is just cursed. It was using 7 bit ASCII until fairly recently resulting in an eighth of the document being wasted space. Also when they switched to PDFs being an open standard the specs went from something freely available on adobe's web site to a challege of how to send 98 swiss francs to ISO to get access.