I have two stories. One of them is slightly modified in order to avoid giving out ident info.
>be me, a total unix noob
>learn about an os called uboontoo
>look in the root directory out of curiosity
>see a folder called /bin
>hmm... why is it full?
>the recycle bin should be empty right?
>delete everything in it, click through all gksudo warnings like a wincuck
>mfw system won't boot
second one
>be me, working at a shitty company
>all scheduling information and medical information about customers held in web based database written in php
>it's possible to upload arbitrary files into the server through the shitty javascript ajax text editor
>upload .php file for shits and giggles
>it runs
>mfw
I never reported that last one to IT people. Couldn't give two shits if they were hacked, PHPniggers deserve it.
>be kid
>computer class in school
>students teach teacher how to computer
>be adult
>work
>small place with like 12 people working here
>have friday off
>get call
>"Anon, we got a dropbox file and can't open it. You got any idea?"
>dafuq is a dropbox file
>no idea
>they say it's fine, I should just look on monday
>monday
>YOUR FILES ARE ENCRYPTED
>it was ransomware
>dropbox file was application.pdf.exe
>they opened it multiple times and on different PCs
>mfw
>used six month old backup and lost a shitton of files
>now do daily backups
>same job
>replaced a bunch of PCs
>"Anon, thing isn't working"
>go there
>install adobe reader
>problem solved
>I am become IT
>>3110 >students teach teacher how to computer
This might be a fuckup, but unfortunately it's very common. Boomers don't know how to use computers at all, even the 100% NPC zoomers know how to use them better than teachers. In my programming class, there are a lot of students (including me) who fix bugs in the teacher's code which he doesn't understand, or solve problems that the teacher can't solve.
Boomers are massive scum. It's not remarkable that western countries are in decline if these oblivious, mentally degrading old farts are in power.
>>3111 >Boomers don't know how to use computers at all
Even though their the ones that made the very computer you are using and all the software on it.
>>3112 A tiny minority of boomer nerds do not outweigh the 99% of boomers who don't understand basic skills like how to download a jewtube video, or how to bypass internet filters, or even how to solve their computer problems by searching online. Boomers lack the drive, the inclination to fix their own problems, preferring instead to ask a more competent and superior zoomer to fix it for them.
And the small minority of boomers who know their way around computers learned on some 1980s IBM shitbox, and after learning DOS, their brain somehow "crystallized" so that they understand neither a standard GUI nor a superior and more powerful UNIX-style CLI. They are just fossilized DOS users who look smart because they know what a FLAWPPY DROIVE is.
>>3114 >DOS user
you overestimate their ability, anon. nothing wrong with DOS, if they could use it. of all people, my mother claimed to use DOS at work. but in the end that meant turning it on and C:\<runprog>, and living in the degenerate software she was given by the hospital. she barely knew what directories were and hasn't a clue what PATH and AUTOEXEC.BAT are.
>>3117 >updating the system breaks things
I used to use gentoo for a few years, and even on ~amd64 (i.e. bleeding edge packages) nothing broke when I updated it. Most stable linux system I've ever installed, a gentoo laptop of mine had 80 something days of uptime before I shut it down for cleaning the heatsinks.
Archniggers should just delete their piece of crap and install either (open|net)bsd, alpine loonix or gentoo loonix.
>>3119 >Archniggers should just delete their piece of crap and install either (open|net)bsd, alpine loonix or gentoo loonix.
Don't worry, this is exactly what I've done.
t. now using OBSD
>>3112 >>3118 Of course, it was not boomers who made DOSes, 'standard GUI' and 'superior and more powerful UNIX-style CLI' nor any of the technologies you enjoy today, but zoomers, yes, right, of course.
It is not boomers who are ignorant of computers, but the masses, boomers and zoomers alike. With computers, as with most things, it takes somebody with an explicit and invested interest to use them properly.
>>3120 >basic handicraft
Not sure what kind of shithole you're living in, but where I am, around 10% of zoomer girls are into knitting and sewing, and if you can't fix your own car you're seen as a pussy. I know weimericans have a lot of degeneracy.
Boomers are weak and unable to do basic shit like climbing ladders or lifting anything heavier than 2kg, and they are also blind and incapable of doing any detailes work.
>happiness
Lol, zoomers make jokes all the time, even city zoomers. Boomers make jokes so cringy that even other boomers barely laugh at them.
Just face it, zoomers are 100% superior to boomers.
>>3123 Are zoomers millenials? Milenials are 1982-2000, right?
Zoomers are 2000-2018, right?
Gen X is 1964-1982, right?
Boomers are 1946-1964, right?
Silent is 1928-1946, right?
>>3125 Boomers are everyone above or equal to the age of 40, and zoomers are everybody under the age of 40. Who gives a shit about muh birth year, when you're talking about generations just use Gen Z and Gen W.
>be 12
>make fake batch script that just runs echo and changes font color to pretend the computer has a virus
>put it on school computer and show friends
>get in trouble for distributing a trojan
years later
>do all kinds of stupid shitbon clearnet on sites using google captcha
>>3133 >be me in elementary school
>learn about batch scripts from a friend
>read about viruses on wikipedia
>write batch scripts that reference those viruses and include random "computer vocabulary" in their output
>hide massive libraries of fake batch script viruses with green flashing text and scrolling lines on a usb so that I can put them into the autostart folder and scare the shit out of my classmates and teachers
>never got caught, to my knowledge they never suspected it was a student
those were the good times, trolling the shit out of the IT staff.
>>3137 And here's the fuckup on my part:
>write a script in 2008 that was supposed to execute on 11:11:11 AM 11/11/11 because MUH EBIN DIGITS LMAO and delete everything, not realizing that computers get replaced every two years because they're "obsolete"
>mfw the script never ran because the computer that it was on had long since been thrown away
>be 10
>decided to play plants vs zombies in class one day
>classmates got curious
>sent the executable and files over the network to other computers
>some fag got butthurt I didn't let him play the game and snitched on me
>when the teacher finally realized what happened, more than half of the class is now playing pvz
>be 13
>first computer class of the year
>all macs
>never used macos before
>fucking around in system preferences
>user account changes are blocked
>decide to open terminal and try `passwd`
>it works (absolute state of macos)
>changed the password, forgot about it and left the class
>got in trouble for hacking the computer
>>3145 You can easily guess my age from the above, but I still used limewire semi frequently back then. It's not that old
I have two stories. One of them is slightly modified in order to avoid giving out ident info.
>be me, a total unix noob
>learn about an os called uboontoo
>look in the root directory out of curiosity
>see a folder called /bin
>hmm... why is it full?
>the recycle bin should be empty right?
>delete everything in it, click through all gksudo warnings like a wincuck
>mfw system won't boot
second one
>be me, working at a shitty company
>all scheduling information and medical information about customers held in web based database written in php
>it's possible to upload arbitrary files into the server through the shitty javascript ajax text editor
>upload .php file for shits and giggles
>it runs
>mfw
I never reported that last one to IT people. Couldn't give two shits if they were hacked, PHPniggers deserve it.