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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 41 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I completely blame ChromeOS.

Even on AD snafu'd windows, the first thing we all did was figure out how to bypass any block and do what we wanted to.

Kids are growing up not knowing there are things you can do aside from accessing the internet and loading crappy webpages.

[–] kablez@lemmy.world 25 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I came here to say something similar. It's not merely tech that's to blame but the kind of tech we have today. Kids are being raised to be consumers of tech and tech services. They don't have basic fundamentals that millenials had to learn to access porn on dialup.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Once you had the phone line to yourself it was easy, just dial out and open cracked limewire or bearshare, then simply click the first horny thing you see, like:

-br1tney_nud3s_14.4k friendly-.exe -filesize 66kb

[–] TechAnon@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

I was the kid my friends' dads would call to fix the PC (because SOMEHOW - "A hacker put a virus on there"), before their wives got back home. Made some nice extra cash!

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

There are even people writing 'software' who don't know that.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Wait I don't get it. How is this possible?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago

I'm so fucking happy I'm not the only one who has noticed that.

jesus christ we're so fucked.