Yeah, being dumb is hardware-agnostic. As some guy put it, "being stupid isn't a big deal anymore; some of my best friends are stupid".
It just stunlocks me a little bit as younger people have been around tech their whole life, unlike boomers, who were born before computers.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"been around tech their whole life" more like they have a locked down phone, locked down game console and MAYBE a desktop computer. It's too rounded out and consumer friendly now, you never have to peek under the hood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Idk, most likely its region/class dependant because I had dumb phones, some very early androids, and an Athlon 64 3000+ pc and I'd call myself a zoomer

edit: before that I had some ancient family pc but it's only relevance is getting me entertained, didn't tinker with it or anything. Also my old phone's 4.4 android was my favorite because it was polished enough while still letting you do dumb shit with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I was born in 04, I work in tech so it's definitely dependant on a lot of factors, I think the biggest being siblings/parents that are into tech. My oldest brother was into tech so he taught me a lot of piracy stuff from a young age.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

Can confirm, had a similar upbringing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Younger millennials down have had their exposure be primarily gardenwalled, locked down equipment. Tablets and smartphones and apps, oh my! The sort of thing that discourages casual exploration and experimentation.

They are fuckin' skin masters though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Boomers have been seeing changes in communications, culture, and technology as revolutionary as anything in the last 20 years, for their entire lives. Things didn't start getting wild just recently. It has been a romp for the last 200 years.