Like the few kinda tech literate GenZers are gonna have to form some guild to keep the internet running at like early 90s levels.

“Brother Jeramathy! The Omni-Web has frozen, I did the ritual of resetting but it did not work!”

“Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul.”

“I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!”

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y’all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

  • Dort_Owl [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    I think a big problem is that we’re taught that skill is something you’re born with instead of something everyone has to suck at before they get better. The whole way science and discovery happens is by failing until you get it right. If people aren’t allowed to safely fail, if failure becomes dangerous socially or economically, we aren’t going to learn.

    • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Sounds like individualism strikes again. With no community support for growth, failure is a hit to the ego and can single you out as the “loser”. Of course people aren’t going to try things when the risk of failure outweighs the benefits of growing from that failure!