Pentapenis

They are technically tablets, but you can get ones that use e-ink, and that's basically like looking at a regular piece of paper. I have one that is backlit, but you can also turn the light off. Plus, those versions of the readers are usually cheaper than the ones that work like regular tablets. I didn't think I would love it as much as I do, but it's actually been great, so I'd say it's worth looking into.

I am running into this problem at work all the time! I am a Millennial who does corporate training for new recruits in a field that we will almost completely train you on. I.e. you don't have to have a specific degree or certification because we'll train you on the job.

I have found that almost all of the Gen Z hires don't have more than a basic level of computer literacy. They didn't learn the hard way in middle school that if you don't save your essay, it will be deleted. They had auto-save. They don't how to ctrl+alt+delete to get to their task manager to force shut down a frozen program because they (often) used chromebooks or phones/tablets where it was basically an internet machine that could be restarted if need be, but didn't have more involved software. They have never had to troubleshoot issues with burning data onto a CD (archaic, I know, but our job requires it). They don't know how to format a lot of things in Word because Google docs does a lot of it for you (or doesn't even have the option). Hell, they don't always know what a proper address on a letter looks like because they don't send snail mail - although this only relates to tech in the formatting and printing of letters.

So now I'm training them on the new material they have to learn for the job, but also computer intricacies that I learned in middle school on my Gateway computer with like 1 gig of ram and floppy disks. When you needed to format something perfectly for school, but nothing was user friendly, you had to learn a lot of weird tricks and workarounds.

They are generally still better at using the computer than Gen X or Boomers, but the Millenials get computers on a different level because we grew with the tech. Gen Z can pick up new software quicker, but still don't always get how things actually work.

I also thought that as true digital natives, they would know a lot more than they actually do. I agree with the likelihood that we will more than likely have to translate for our elders and the younger generation as well.

I would like this, but let's also add in government oversight. You got caught doing something illegal in order to make more money? Your punishment is having a government official (or several) watch and check everything you do for the next 10 years to make sure everything you're doing is legally up to snuff. Because when you're naughty, mom watches you closer.

At least you can eat the geese. What the heck am I going to do with turtledoves and partridges?

I'm not sure what's happening here, but I'm into it.

For sure. They feed it to us here in the US pretty much every day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

That was a perfect correction. I didn't want to say anything because the joke was funny, and my thought process was pedantic, but you corrected it and kept it funny. Well done.

Please never stop posting these!

I think it's that you don't feel older mentally. I though I would feel a certain maturity once I reached an age where I had a solid, advancing career and owned a house. Turns out, I feel pretty much the same and am just better at dealing with things that arise and pretending that I'm mature. My body hurts more and my face looks older, but I don't feel all that different. I'm sure I've mentally changed to some extent, and I notice it more when I talk to younger people, but I still feel the same.

Just for clarification purposes, its 50k per day, doubling every day of noncompliance. So day 1 is 50k, day 2 is an additional 100k, and day 3 is an additional 200k. 3 days = 350k. I agree that it's not enough, but if they dug their heels in, it would grow really high, really fast, so it was a pretty effective fine.

I agree with you. Actually, Lemmy woke me up to how much reddit had already been enshitified. I didn't realize that I had stopped commenting altogether because the subs were so big that either no one saw your stuff, or there was always some one pissed off who felt the need to respond. Lemmy reminds me of reddit the way it was when I joined 12 years ago.