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Gen X - who, let's face it, wrote most of this stuff - gets forgotten again.

To my fellow Gen X’ers…

Shhh!

Let someone else deal with the inept on the other end of the phone. Be happy we’re being ignored again.

i figured gen z would start fixing my computer once i hit my current age (41); turns out i dont know any gen z's that understand how computers work.

im really tired of being everyone's tech support :(

And again, generation X completely forgotten about.

And we GenX are happily left out of this one.

Ok but what about Gen X?

Let's be fair, we millennial know how to fix stuff because stuff still can be fixed. We can glance back one generation away and learn about how stuff work back then, and also learn how to fix those stuff. Nowadays stuff aren't meant to be fixed, (late) gen z doesn't have thing to start tearing apart and learn about the inner working of stuff, because it's all glued/snapped together, with the culture being once broke just toss.

lol. My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.

I work in IT. Gen-X. Which you forgot because you’re bad.

My daughter just got her degree in Cybersecurity. Millennial.

tl;dr: STFU with this stupid inter-generational tribalism, it’s wrong and stupid.

Gen X invented the fucking tech from discrete 7400 logic.

Good damn it they forgot about us again. This is exactly why they call us Generation X!

There are some parts of Gen Z that can actually tear stuff apart and actually fix systems, but those are the nerds (which also includes me) that care enough to actually learn stuff. The majority is quite tech illiterate

I know enough Millennials who don't know shit. "My email address is www...."

gen x

Not all of Gen Z are tech illiterate. Some of us used computers before iPads and smartphones. I used Windows XP and 7 long before I ever got a smartphone.

Yeah GenX is STILL doing this. Though be of good cheer my millennial brethren...When Skynet takes over, we'll be secure as long as we slave for the overlords. The rest...?

We'll pray for you.

Well I don't know... I worked with boomers who first built out the internet in my country. Now they mostly retired, but the Gen-Xers who remain are also incredible.

My dad who's also a boomer and an anesthesiologist got admin rights at the hospital he worked at because he helped everyone around with their computer troubles and the tech support trusted him and were happy he reduced their ticket load.

Maybe you guys just know the wrong people.

Gen X here. If I cared what any of those age groups thought I would feel slighted.

As one of the older Millennials (1982), I can say that there is a lot of truth to this meme.

The difference between Gen X and Millennials is that at around age 35 (circa 2009) I started telling people, who were almost always friends of friends who wouldn't actually hang out with me normally, that I charge $100 an hour. Millennials still do it for free...

If they want to take over from my gen-X ass from doing everyone's fixing shit, I'm all for it.

I'm actually, genuinely shocked by the ageism in such debates every single time. There's no such thing as age-based incompetence, TBH. There are sound people for every field available everywhere. Why do we have to assume this? Every generation has at least a few people who are competent in their field, even in computing. It's more important that the literate of us unite to end illiteracy and stop injustice being done in the name of technology. This, honestly, is just making fun of each other, for apparently no sound reason. And I'm talking about the comments, not the meme. I might, or not, get some sour disagreements, or straight-up very bitter replies for arguing even this, ...and again, I ask: Do we reeaaally have to do this?

Technology too has a supposed duty of bringing people together...!

Every generation has its nerds. I'm not suddenly a millennial just because I know how to fix a computer.

Gen Z / alpha: "fix the computer? Do you mean the phone?"

My parents are Gen X, me and my older brother are Gen Z.

Parents keep asking, nay, DEMANDING, for us to fix their shit. Then i proceeded to have a fight with my brother about who's responsibility is it to fix it.

Parent's don't know how to use a tax filing website 🤦‍♂️ (Tbf, they don't know how to fill out paper forms either).

The first time we've ever touched a real computer with internet access was around 2010, before that, we were in mainland China and we had no internet (either too expensive, or unavailable as a service in the areas we lived in, not sure which, or my parents are just being cheap)