TrashMammal posted:

how many years did goons spend subsidizing lowtax’s cookie habit?

numberoneposter posted:

GTR's and Cookie Jars

Drone_Fragger posted:

Id love to learn how to fix my car but tragically cars changed from the 80s.

Earwicker posted:

yes. when i brought up cars it was an analogy. for computers. which have also changed from the 80s. which is why gen z are more prone to online scams than boomers.

TrashMammal posted:

then they complain about how you have to take the oil somewhere afterwards. not like the good ol days. then they’ll laugh and do this anyway:

XYZAB posted:

jokes posted:

Why do boomers hate turn signals and seatbelts so much? Every time a boomer drives me places the car is yelling at them "PUT ON YOUR SEATBELT" and they just sit there, blissfully ignoring it while everyone in the car is seething.

Is this the 'we hate boomers' thread or a car thread because zoomers being loving stupid about computers was something everyone who knew anything about computers 100% expected, but discriminatory car chat based on age is fun

Code Jockey posted:

I don't blame gen z for not giving a gently caress about computers, look what it did to prior generations

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

I have a 70s car that is very easy to repair and work on but I don't want to pass it on to my kid because I don't want them impaled on the steering column which is exactly what would happen on a collision of 30+ mph.

jokes posted:

uh made millenials loving rad? without computers, millenials wouldnt have any money, and boomers would never have been able to easily prove how dumb they are to the entire world. zoomers are going to be hosed if they have to try and maintain computer systems on their own because millenials were barely able to keep 90s poo poo running

whoever invented the PDF didnt realize they made the silver bullet to the myth that boomers are capable of learning/doing anything

Earwicker posted:

that's exactly my point though. older computers - the average desktop pc in the 90's - were way more amenable to owner maintenance and repair than a current iphone or tablet.

as a consequence, the younger people who use the internet know less about how the tools they use to get online work, and do zero maintenance of those tools themselves. just like a lot of people who drive now know less about how cars work.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

I haven’t really seen anything that wasn’t user repairable on current computers, just less poo poo that I had to repair.

Earwicker posted:

"current computers" includes smartphones and tablets, which are what the majority of younger people use to get online in their daily lives, and which are absolutely not user repairable. you instantly void the warranty if you even open it up.

CJacobs posted:

I think the reason a young person might be more prone to getting scammed is because they haven't fallen for any before. They're no different today from any prior generation. When a child scrapes their knee and cries, it's because it is literally the worst thing that has ever happened to them and they're gaining a new perspective.

numberoneposter posted:

fool me once? shame on you. fool me twice? you can't get fooled again.

roomtone posted:

aren't gen z those teens?

man, they're stupid. they've only had like, 16-20 years of life experience. i've got way more than that. they run around with their tiktoks and snapchats and i say look man, how many times have you tried and failed to finish das kapital? only once? come on.

numberoneposter posted:

GTR's and Cookie Jars

Earwicker posted:

Earwicker posted:

the first time i ever watched an internet video (a 40-second news clip of a beached whale being exploded with dynamite) i had to download it in 82 seperate parts from usenet and then assemble them. it took hours.

Fanelien posted:

A major problem with modern vehicles is the sheer amount of garbage that is bolted onto the engine for emissions, and now we're relying on turbos and mild hybrid systems/stop-start systems for extra efficiency all of which take up a sizeable part of the engine bay. Alternators are bigger than they used to be, as are radiators and HVAC heat exchangers, all automatic transmissions now have some form of cooling in the engine bay too. It's not just wanting to save a buck on engine bay space it's a case of there's so many more things that need to be crammed in there than just the cylinders, a fuel/air delivery system and an exhaust manifold.

Anyway someone mentioned programming and repairability as well earlier. And that is a major issue now. Stupid parts of vehicles now require coding or unlocking from the previous vehicle to adapt to a new one. I make a living bypassing a lot of these systems or finding ways to program them outside of a dealer. But the tech that was on high-end euro vehicles is now in your average shitbox and things like lights and fuse boxes which have no business needing coding or programming now do require it on everything but the most simple of vehicles. The fact is dealers do not want people repairing their own vehicles or even a 3rd party workshop doing it, and the current right to repair legislation at least here in Australia is a joke.

Cabal Ties posted:

One of my first experiences of online trolling was joining some goons in an online mmp browser based game, some light rpg thing.

In the game was a public chat bar and the learned goon I was playing with typed six asterisks into the chat then added “oh cool it hides your password when you type it into chat”
Cue several usernames and passwords appearing in chat suddenly as people tried the trick.

I’m sure that sorta thing is old hat these days but this was 20 years ago so I’m not sure much has actually changed. My eyes were opened that day. To a new way to loot.

roomtone posted:

aren't gen z those teens?

man, they're stupid. they've only had like, 16-20 years of life experience. i've got way more than that. they run around with their tiktoks and snapchats and i say look man, how many times have you tried and failed to finish das kapital? only once? come on.