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.

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    221·
    11 months ago

    I work in tech and it’s honestly exhausting trying to keep up. I already feel this way tbh, it’s a non stop procession into the future.

    • itsJoelle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      I’m a developer as well, but I think we’re comparing professional literacy to general user literacy. I think we should be fine save some new form factor (idk, fucking AR, I guess?) or paradigm that upends UI design in our 60s

    • eightequalsequalsd@lemmy.world
      English
      5·
      11 months ago

      Same, they keep on adding new features and I don’t have the time / interest / small enough world to get me to keep up with every little change. When I was a kid at home, I basically just had school and then a desktop to mess with. Now, my partner shows me new stuff on my iPhone all the time (shortcuts and whatnot) and it’s great… but I just need something that works and isn’t leaking data I wouldn’t expect.

      I used my work account to make an account for Postman the other day and they added like, public profiles to Postman. Like what? Who asked for that?

      • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        11 months ago

        Yep, I’m totally with you there. I always think that if young me had the resources I have now, I’d be doing amazing shit, but then I realise I’d probably just be scrolling social media like I do now. Growing up without Internet I feel was better, you had to actively keep yourself busy. I got into IT because I was lonely and had a lot of time on my hands.

    • randomperson@lemmy.world
      22·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think it’s exhausting at all. Consumer technology doesn’t change that fast to not keep up even if you are not that tech savvy.