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My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.

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

What about ancient technology? Give them a rotary phone, a tape player, a pickup, basically a good old stereo tower, worst, gave them a VCR and ask them to program it to record a show!

Also some Z and mostly A don't type well on regular keyboards, sometimes struggle with mouse or windows environment. They only know cellphones.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

About the same. Everyone has a point where they decide to stop learning for some it is just way further out there.

I know people in their 30s who can't manage and I know people in their 60s that do fine.

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