Thrashin_Victim

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Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Thrashin_Victim@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I first started working on computers in 1994, I thought that by 2010 every kid/teen/adult would be able to repair their computers themselves. How wrong I was. They know how to use computers and tablets but the hardware is a mystery to them.

I worked at a STEM university and was helping a Computer Science student with his laptop. It had a SSD and a platter HD in it for storage. The platter HD was failing and needed replacing. I wrote to the student stating he “needed a new HD”. He had no clue what I meant. He didn’t even know it was possible to replace. He was going to buy a new laptop.

Older tech workers are tapping out, taking early retirement in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Thrashin_Victim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Just happened to me. Private equity firm bought the company and gutted my whole department. Just bought a house too.