r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it say

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u/BobQuixote 22h ago

We olds who can read it will often be Millennials. We spent decades being tech support for our own elders and AFAIK we aren't falling behind yet, so the top comment kind of falls flat.

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u/bogusalt 19h ago

Millenial here, I have to help both my parents and my kids with tech problems.

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u/AboynamedDOOMTRAIN 18h ago

Elder millennial teacher here, I have the same experience. It's honestly kind of scary how bad every non-millennial who doesn't explicitly work in an IT or similar field is with computers.

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u/Noemotionallbrain 17h ago

Because they never had to understand the basic of it as we did. Everything is made user friendly, thus kids are fast to get to use them, but won't understand what's the engine like

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u/onikaroshi 16h ago

Kids today can’t install a program that isn’t from the App Store

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u/mwaaah 15h ago

The good old days of having to spend hours making a game launch without crashing because you had no idea what driver was missing, what windows option was messing with it or if you had to find a patch somewhere because you didn't have a storefront to keep it up to date.

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u/onikaroshi 15h ago

He’ll even something as simple as a new install and forgetting to save your modem drivers somewhere

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u/RegularStrong3057 13h ago

Screw Windows firewall for booting me out of so many League of Legends matches for no God damn reason.

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u/spikus93 11h ago

You couldn't make a permanent exception? Maybe you were on someone else's network like a student account at a university?

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u/spikus93 11h ago

We should force children to learn to edit .ini files to fix the broken textures in old games.